Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Tuesday, September 09, 2003
Friday, April 04, 2003
/**/ Democracy, by definition can't be inderect. Demos means people and the ~cracy ending means goverment (ex. aristocracy, etc.). So, democracy means govermenr by the people. That's why what it is currently instaurated in the majority of the countries of the world is not a democracy, is merely a politocracy (goverment of the politic class), which (as we can see with the Irak war) is not representative of the common interest of the citizens.
Monday, March 24, 2003
Friday, March 21, 2003
/**/ There are several markets that can be attcked just by avoiding using common paradigms. The more exposed one is the car market.
Mainly every single car maker is making cars far more expensive that what they should be, and even worse, they are creating unreliable cars as long as we keep buying them. As exposed in "The Inovators Dilemmna" there are very simple things that you can change ata given market that will have huge impact on sales.
/**/ For cars, a really easy and cheap thing to do would be to add a second lamp to every ligth (stop ligths in particulary), to help the driver avoid an infraction becouse one is them is dead. This is the simple kind of things that car makers don't think of becouse their minds are dominated by many years of tradition. The solution is simple to brake free from that. Cars that are refrigerated using presurized water can take temperature for over 90Celsius thus improving eficiency. The only reason this is notdone is becouse originally cars that used water as a cooler, didn't have a presirized system. This, in turn meant that when the temperature went over 100Celsius you would end up with a real big proble (pipes exploding, etc.). Technology have improve a lot since then, and nowadays a standar fuel engine can ride at about 120Celsius without any change. As a precaution a good idea would be to use 3 termostats instead oof just one. You add a simple circuit that takes the 3 reading. When one of them differ, it discards tha value and report the problem to the driver so the car can be taken to a service station.
/**/ Other simple evolution that car makers are resisting is electric vehicules. Simply put, there's no place where to buy a simple design 2 seater electric car. Clearly, Corbin Sparrow (http://www.corbinmotors.com/products_sparrow1.html) is a great idea with a really bad price tag. What we need to learn from the Sparrow is that a 3 wheels vehicule is not a car, so you don't need to pass crash test nor any kind of expensive certification.
You can get a couple of cheap (under U$S 250 each) scooters from http://www.electric-scooters-electric-scooters.com/ (the Volt Electric Scooter seems to be the best price/performer http://www.electric-scooters-electric-scooters.com/program/fixedPriceMod.cfm?do=detail&productID=66&categoryID=8) , remove one of the front wheels, add a plexiglass floor to join them and a plexiglass canopy for the ceiling and you have a small cheap car that can ride for 12 miles without recharging (at lest, one Scooter alone can do 12 miles, probably you can go much further using both). This will cost you far less than U$S1000, something no car maker has dare to do (thoug they can). If you want longer autonomy, you can add a couple of flexible solar panels (http://www.sailnet.com/store/item.cfm?pid=12106 or http://www.solar-electric.com/usf-32.html or http://www.solar-electric.com/solar-panels-flexible---specialty.html) on the roof of the car. With that you can charge the battery in about 12 hours of continous Sun exposure. It will cost you between U$S300-500. Not really that expensive.
Mainly every single car maker is making cars far more expensive that what they should be, and even worse, they are creating unreliable cars as long as we keep buying them. As exposed in "The Inovators Dilemmna" there are very simple things that you can change ata given market that will have huge impact on sales.
/**/ For cars, a really easy and cheap thing to do would be to add a second lamp to every ligth (stop ligths in particulary), to help the driver avoid an infraction becouse one is them is dead. This is the simple kind of things that car makers don't think of becouse their minds are dominated by many years of tradition. The solution is simple to brake free from that. Cars that are refrigerated using presurized water can take temperature for over 90Celsius thus improving eficiency. The only reason this is notdone is becouse originally cars that used water as a cooler, didn't have a presirized system. This, in turn meant that when the temperature went over 100Celsius you would end up with a real big proble (pipes exploding, etc.). Technology have improve a lot since then, and nowadays a standar fuel engine can ride at about 120Celsius without any change. As a precaution a good idea would be to use 3 termostats instead oof just one. You add a simple circuit that takes the 3 reading. When one of them differ, it discards tha value and report the problem to the driver so the car can be taken to a service station.
/**/ Other simple evolution that car makers are resisting is electric vehicules. Simply put, there's no place where to buy a simple design 2 seater electric car. Clearly, Corbin Sparrow (http://www.corbinmotors.com/products_sparrow1.html) is a great idea with a really bad price tag. What we need to learn from the Sparrow is that a 3 wheels vehicule is not a car, so you don't need to pass crash test nor any kind of expensive certification.
You can get a couple of cheap (under U$S 250 each) scooters from http://www.electric-scooters-electric-scooters.com/ (the Volt Electric Scooter seems to be the best price/performer http://www.electric-scooters-electric-scooters.com/program/fixedPriceMod.cfm?do=detail&productID=66&categoryID=8) , remove one of the front wheels, add a plexiglass floor to join them and a plexiglass canopy for the ceiling and you have a small cheap car that can ride for 12 miles without recharging (at lest, one Scooter alone can do 12 miles, probably you can go much further using both). This will cost you far less than U$S1000, something no car maker has dare to do (thoug they can). If you want longer autonomy, you can add a couple of flexible solar panels (http://www.sailnet.com/store/item.cfm?pid=12106 or http://www.solar-electric.com/usf-32.html or http://www.solar-electric.com/solar-panels-flexible---specialty.html) on the roof of the car. With that you can charge the battery in about 12 hours of continous Sun exposure. It will cost you between U$S300-500. Not really that expensive.
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