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New Way to Make Hydrogen
zymano writes "Hydrogen is expensive to make and difficult to store. The most common way in making hydrogen is electrolyzing pure water. A new startup is trying a new way to make hydrogen. The process uses sodium which industry shuns because it generates sparks and heat when mixed with water. Signa has devised a way to mix sodium with silica gel or crystalline silicon to create a powder that essentially strips electrons from the sodium molecules in advance and stores them. When water is introduced, the chemical reaction proceeds calmly. The powder generates hydrogen efficiently. More than 9 percent of a kilogram of the powder gets converted to hydrogen and little energy is lost through heat."
I think we should propose a law for people who propose taxes or "surcharges". Every tax you propose you must pay yourself. If you tax cigarettes or some activity you don't do, then you should pay what the average person pays who does. For the life of the Tax. Period. Additionally, anyone person who proposes a new Tax should have to forgo half their total asset worth: liqiudate half of all they own and give it to their state government, or to the Fed depending upon the where the Tax is.