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  There are several much simpler ways a robot car could 
  connect itself for charging

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  (But it would be nice if the next-gen solar panels 
  installed on a car would be efficient enough to provide 
  enough power for a car drive)

Model S has a 310KW motor. Assume you only run it at 10% of rated power when cruising, and that's 31KW of power draw. More than that, of course, since the motor controller won't be perfectly efficient.

No way you can run a consumer vehicle on solar panels built into the body.

Generally, the big risk with elevated freshwater lakes connected to the sea by locks isn't saltwater contamination, but the disastrous flood that would happen if all the lock gates were opened at the same time. A lot of work was put into the safety measures, most of which have been removed due to cost in recent decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal_locks#Safety_feat...

If a flight of locks was completely opened, Gatún would promptly drain out of them, wiping out everything downstream. You could imagine the entire canal would be offline for months to years as infrastructure was rebuilt and the lake was refilled by rainwater.

  In 2006, Tor research was funded was through a no-bid
  federal contract awarded to Dingledine’s consulting
  company, Moria Labs. And starting in 2007, the Pentagon
  cash came directly through the Tor Project itself —
  thanks to the fact that Team Tor finally left EFF and
  registered its own independent 501(c)(3) non-profit.

  How dependent was — and is — Tor on support from
  federal government agencies like the Pentagon?

  In 2007, it appears that all of Tor’s funding came from
  the federal government via two grants. A quarter million
  came from the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB), a
  CIA spinoff that now operates under the Broadcasting Board
  of Governors. IBB runs Voice of America and Radio Marti, a
  propaganda outfit aimed at subverting Cuba’s communist
  regime. The CIA supposedly cut IBB financing in the 1970s
  after its ties to Cold War propaganda arms like Radio Free
  Europe were exposed.

  The second chunk of cash — just under $100,000 — came
  from Internews, an NGO aimed at funding and training
  dissident and activists abroad. Tor’s subsequent tax
  filings show that grants from Internews were in fact
  conduits for “pass through” grants from the US State
  Department.

Can it produce 3D footage, I wonder? Intuitively, it feels like 360-degree 3D video would require a heck of a lot of cameras.

  The specs aren’t listed on the FDK site but the safety 
  data sheet shows it is a 3V battery although amperage is 
  unclear.

(Actual voltage can vary quite a bit, depending on where you are in the discharge curve: http://i.stack.imgur.com/UkodS.gif)

And to be somewhat needlessly pedantic: you want "amp-hours" there, not "amperage". Amp-hours is the unit of capacity, amps is how much current is being drawn at that very moment. In the automotive metaphor, amp-hours (or watt-hours) is how big the gas tank is, while amperage is engine horsepower.

Page 62: Mildly surprised that they don't want crimped connections soldered, but I suppose that compromises flexibility, and shouldn't add all that much strength if they're properly crimped.

Page 76: Wow, had never heard of "connector saver" jumpers before. Sounds bananas, but I suppose if you're going to test everything ten times for every launch, it's mostly reasonable.

  The fileserver tier consists of pairs of Dell R720s 
  running in active/standby configuration. Each pair is 
  largely similar to the single pair of machines that the 
  old Pages infrastructure ran on.

Two Xeon E5-2600s per machine.

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