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Cisco set-top-boxes to solve U-verse audio dropouts? {Engadget HD}
Sep 3rd 2008 10:13AM I gave the new cisco DVR from comcast ,running HDMI
When i change channels and get into the HD channels teh audio goes out and teh picture will get green lines through it.
Sometimes the only way to solve teh issue is to power off the unit.
This is very frustrating
2010 Prius revealed, sneakers still a major design influence {Engadget}
Aug 25th 2008 10:53AM Actually, the Hybrid was created not for the sake of the enviroment but for the sake of people wanting to save on petroleum products in the future. Oil in its depleting supply will surely cost more in the future. and the more you save in fuel through the hybrid technology the less you'll spend your hard earned dollar on such depleting resource. Taking into mind that other than fumes, you now have battery chemicals to worry about.
Also taking into consideration that most of the parts and manufacturing for the so called Hybrid is not done in one site or location you have no choice but to think about the energy being wasted to create these vehicles
I have been to a nickel mine in Canada. I have been to several American mines that export ALL their ore because American law dictates that they can not process their ore here, so they ship it all to India, Japan, and China.
I don't know anything about going to Europe, or Canada's processing laws, but all that transportation can't be efficient. I would believe that if you take into account the mining processes, transportation, refining, production, transportation,Petroleum going into the plastic on the car and all that adds up.
Did you hear the one where Toyota had to revise their mileage standards on the prius because they were false?
The fact is that a gasoline engine running an electric motor is by definition, inefficient. 1.) energy transfers add resistance, and 2.) more weight (i.e. adding another engine) adds resistance.
Plus has anyone owned any of these cars long enough to stockpile the Nickle bats . I think not
Soonner or later we are going to have a dump site location with stockpiles of NC Batteries and by then the Gov't will find out somethimg bad about them .
Im not saying they arent good , But they arent the answer.
I agree on Nuclear,fission and fusion.
Also propane or a natural gas or Hydrogen type engine that returns to the enviroment what we take out would be the ultimate
