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- psYcon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39I shudder at the thought of how much the inventor of the wheel might have saved us.
- DVRDude, on 10/12/2007, -7/+40I also heard he saved a bunch of money by switching to GEICO.
- snypa, on 10/12/2007, -3/+34What a legend.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+30http://duggmirror.com/tech_news/Eighty_Year_Old_Saved_Us_800_Billion/
- miles01110, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27This article pays tribute to a great man in a poor way. It focuses less on the science and more on "how much we owe him." Way to detract from some of the most important technological breakthroughs of modern times with lines like, "He took home $375,000, not a great return on $800 billion."
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23My car gets 1/10 m/g with its state-of the-art block wheels.
- d122, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15I worked for Art many years ago and can confirm what the article says.
He was really instrumental in getting the research funded and the laws
changed to add performance standards. We owe him a great debt! - brucebeh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14for some reason i read "EIGHT year old saved us $800 billion"
then i thought the 8 year old saved some idiot from making a political mistake.
interesting article though. - Mambo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Your right, it won't roll down hill. It will slide.
- keikun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12for science!
- dognose, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11totally inaccurate. He wasn't 80 when made those improvements. An the frig stats are just way way off.
Digg is just out of control with error filled headlines. You should not be required to read all the comments to get the truth. Digg should remove or correct all these inaccuracies. - chaos386, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Yeah, I thought that was a bit high as well. If we go by 450 kW-hr per day, that's 18.75 kW-hr per hour, or 18,750 W. Even if the fridge operated on 220 V, wouldn't that mean it would use roughly 85 Amps? Isn't the average house circuit only meant to handle 20 Amps?
Maybe the author of the article meant kilowatt hours per _month_. - oktobr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8At least with square wheels it won't roll downhill if the brakes fail.
- wurzelgummage, on 10/12/2007, -8/+142000 kw/h a day? wtf?
- Spectrum7331, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I have to agree. A bright mind with a huge impact on nearly everything we use.
- roguescout, on 10/12/2007, -9/+13It is so easy to switch to GEICO, even a particle physicist can do it.
- wurzelgummage, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Ban digitalgopher for spamming ***** submissions. He has some kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- redneckblues, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It says he was born in 1927, so that is about 80 years.
- chrislewis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Fridges are about 450W.
Look, "All of these innovations were contributed to by one man's laboratory. Dr. Arthur Rosenfeld" His laboratory? So what? He didnt invent them, he owned the laboratory were they were worked on. It doesnt say anywhere that he invented anything. - scblock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No way in hell does an average refrigerator use 450 kWh per day. That is way too high.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2account suspended...he didn`t pay his bills or exceeded his bandwidth?
- RadiatedAnt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.primidi.com/2004/04/05.html
wheels not so important. /sarcasm - themattman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What a great person
- theXenon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=97
http://www.globalcomposites.net/The%20Inventor.htm
Square wheeled robots are planned for future NASA missions. Invented by Jason Winckler, a 14 year old. - donatj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2couldn't we save money if windows let in heat in the winter and just lived with it in the summer?
- megaloid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So THAT'S what a "Rolls Canhardly" is.
- bootle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rosenfeld
Something is amiss. That article says he is 69. It also says he studied under Fermi, who died painfully when he would have been around 17.
Something's wrong, either wikipedia or this article.... - tedm, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7A year probably - but not a day.
- wurzelgummage, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8I just realised this is a "digitalgopher" joint, so his "crew" are going to dig this point down.
- Twango, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Surely they meant watt-hours per day. 2000 watt-hours = 2kWh.
By comparison a 100W light bulb left on can consume 24hrs*100W or 2.4kWh per day. - jhulla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1i saved 80 cents once.
- monkeywizard, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I hate the ***** hosting companies that suspend accounts like this.
Don't they know there's tons of people hitting it that can see this? Bad for business. - garyh84, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2This douchebag is #2 amongst all diggers? WTF?
- GhostToon, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2fluorescent lighting is the work of the devil.
- romulusnr, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Dr. Rosenfeld, you have our recognition, and our sincerest gratitude.
Gratitude, the currency of any conservative capitalist society. Gotta love it. I suppose at 80 he doesn't have a lot of time left to blow 375K, though. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4good one
- archerx, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1@diggywiggit
I hope that was your attempt as Irony. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -14/+8This man should get a lot more recognition than just an internet article.
Man of the Year, anybody? - sbovisjb1, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3And im wondering how much the inefficient gasoline cars will cost us in the future.
- Crizzle, on 10/12/2007, -14/+8Pfft, whatever.
We still managed to piss away all that money on a useless war. :-) - swean, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2That is amazing
- Wootery, on 10/12/2007, -13/+4For anyone else who can't get the page to load...
http://duggmirror.com/tech_news/Eighty_Year_Old_Saved_Us_800_Billion/ - CBTF, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2Source?
- trunkster, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3Now these kind of people who invent things like this are secretly hunted out by the government to be taken out.
- nathanmock, on 10/12/2007, -16/+2http://www.duggmirror.com
- PsychoPNut, on 10/12/2007, -22/+6or suck his dick
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -23/+3Block anyone mentioning GEICO. They are spammers.
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