Recent content by phobos512

That's an ideal diameter difference of 0.8% (the regular tires are 0.8% smaller). Six revolutions per mile. However, tires heat up during driving, tires don't have exact tire pressures in them at all times, tires are not all identical to the measured size when they come out of the mold...

Most contracts have phrasing for unforeseen circumatances, usually something along the lines of "acts of God". So no, it's not a reasonable expectation on your part.

Taxifornia strikes again...Income tax, property tax, sales tax, fuel tax for people who have ICEs, vehicle registration, and all you get in return are earthquakes, droughts, rolling blackouts, never ending fires, unbelievable housing prices... Gosh, why did we ever leave...

A coiled cable will generate a static magnetic field. Remember wrapping a wire from a 12 volt battery around a nail as a kid and making an electromagnet, and if you did it for long enough, permanently magnetizing the nail? Same idea. It won't hurt electronics; you need a changing / moving...

So, do you get a choice on where to put the Powerwalls? Or is it based on where your panel is? What if the power panel isn't even in the garage?

Vehicle registration in California is already criminally expensive so hey, why not make it even more so? Absolutely nuts. I don't get it. Why anyone wants a license plate through which the state can snoop on you, which theoretically can be hacked, etc., I will never understand.

Same amount. In different time. Is there no edit post button on this forum? Jeez.

The amount of deceleration (or really acceleration as acceleration is simply any change though we've generalized to positive being acceleration and negative being deceleration) is not a function of mass. The time it takes to decelerate is. So, they both accelerate in the same time. It's not...