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LoveOO writes Boston.com has a story about three companies which are trying to replace the Light bulb. I say it's about time and what about hydrogen powered vehicles? Two things that annoy me are filling the gas tank and changing light bulbs. It's time we did alot less of both."
Using the toilet? I think they should fix that problem. :)
Yes, but at least we'd be using our own natural gas. The US has so much, it would be considered the "OPEC" of natural gas.
Filling the gas tank is so much worse than filling the hydrogen tank?
In principle, you could drive your hydrogen-powered car home at night, filling the exhaust tank with water. You could then plug your car in to an electrical outlet, and the water would be electrolyzed to hydrogen and oxygen overnight, filling your fuel tank. Depending on how fast the electrolysis occurred, it probably wouldn't eliminate the need for filling the tank, but fillups could be less frequent under city driving.
Toronto-area transit rider? Rate your ride.
Hmm... Where will we get the hydrogen for all those green hydrogen fueled cars? Nuclear power plants? Coal fired powered power plants? Those solutions for generating hydrogen are potentially worse than the continued use of diesel or gasoline fuels.
Wind power? Just look at the problems getting a pilot test done on the coast off Massachusetts. The Kennedy's are saying NIMBY to a commercial wind power generation project. Yes you can build them in the middle of the desert but then you have to build a power transmission line to get the product to the consumer. Due to the low density of the power the cost of building and maintaining the transmission lines needed to "add" windmill farms to the grid approaches the market value of the power generated.
Same NIMBY and transmission issues with solar generation projects.
Aqueous alcohol fuel cells look to be more realistic solution. You don't have to use as dry (water free) an alcohol as in direct combustion of the alcohol. Use of biomass generated methane gas and direct solar heating to power the grain fermentation units and distillation units would increase the energy density of the fuel. You flush a nice bit of biomass down your toilet every day so every major city has a ready supply. Plus recovery of the biomass from waste water via a closed loop tertiary water treatment system will provide additional drinking water for the city. Don't gag about drinking the treated sewage idea most likely if you like on a major river system and get your drinking water from that river you all ready do. You just have a lot less control over the quality of the water at the intake than you would with a closed system.
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... at least while congress is in session.
I don't know, man. Using my own natural gas - sounds painful.
afganistan and iraq (think dup)
Technically, anyone that is not professional military are members. Be them gun owners or not.
They may not be 'active', but by definition they are still a member.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Interestingly enough, your interpretation is not grammarically correct. Notice that the "well regulated militia" phrase is a justification, not a condition, on the second phrase. What you would have liked the founders to write is this: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed if they belong to said militia." They didn't write that though.
(Imagine that, though: a computer that would glow different colors based on how much of its processing power was being used. When it turned red, you'd know that a crash was imminent.)
Wow, here you see the model of computers that the man of the street has: the higher you rev the CPU engine, the more likely it is to fail. No wonder people can't figure out the connection between bad software and system crashes.
On the other hand, I don't understand the "how" of this dog ever catching a mouse -- this guy would pursue any prey barking and with floppy ears flapping: he was not big in the stealth department. Cats, however, are real killing machines. They are quiet and the "pounce" on their prey.
One situation to watch: Apple Computer recently filed a patent application for a computer whose exterior would change colors, apparently after Color Kinetics had demonstrated their technology to Apple. "It covers a lot of our technology and a lot of patents we hold," Mueller says.
Check out thinkgeek's Ambient Orb.