dhc02

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

First past the post voting systems prevent viable third parties because of human psychology. Why are we pretending to argue about how we phrase this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is a great solution.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been pretty happy with Tusky

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Believe it or not, they thought of that when they created start/stop systems.

In cars with these systems, the back pressure in the engine's cylinders is greatly reduced via a variety of strategies including selective alteration of valve timing and purpose-built secondary valves. What this means in effect is that the torque required to re-start the engine is a fraction of a dead cold start, and even a fraction of a normal warm start. This should serve to minimize additional destructive wear on components.

In effect, well-designed start-stop systems do not create any additional wear on vital engine components versus the engine running for that same period of time.