Slashdot Mirror
Truckers Choose Hydrogen Power
hipernoico writes to tell us Wired News is reporting that hundreds of semi trucks now on the roads are being partially powered by hydrogen. From the article: "These 18-wheelers make hydrogen as they go, eliminating the need for high-pressure, cryogenic storage tanks or hydrogen filling stations, which, by the way, don't yet exist. These truckers aren't just do-gooders. They like Canadian Hydrogen Energy's Hydrogen Fuel Injection, or HFI, system because it lets them save fuel, get more horsepower and, as a bonus, cause less pollution."
first post!
Perhaps you would be interested in trying our revolutionary new pharmaceutical, Antafail. With Antafail, every time you fail it, you'll feel an immediate, sharp pain in your testicles. Some patients have reported that this aversion technique has led to a 75% decrease in failures in as little as six weeks!
See your doctor and find out if Antafail is right for you.
Antafail: For when YOU FAIL IT.
160-0023 Japan Tokyo-to Shinjuku-ku Nishi-Shinjuku 3-20-2
^^^ this is right next to where I live. Seriously about 1 block away from my house.
Zuh?
I've got 5 mod points: how do I use them to mod down this article? This is crankery at best. The gadget does nothing but inject a bit of water.
Why are slashdot editors such suckers for pseudoscience? Do you all have CS degrees?
Warning: this article may contain humor, sarcasm, parody, and perhaps even irony. Read at your own risk.
Why does the U.S. need to secure vast amounts of oil? Because adequate sources of energy are critical to preserving and expanding the power, wealth, and influence of the U.S.
Why does this energy have to come from oil? Because if we switched to something else, although we might maintain or expand our current wealth, it might be other people (read: not oil companies and those that profit specifically from oil) who will be wealthy.
There is a lot of interconnections between those who profit from oil, and those who run our politics (usually completely overt connections). This need not be an observation strictly about any one politician, or any particular party.
OK, so is it starting to become clear why it might be more expensive to pollute less? In this case, I am simplistically tying "polluting less" to "not using oil for energy" but I'm sure you get the idea.
If anyone is going to use the argument that economic forces shape our environmental policies. Therefore, people will only do what is profitable (the assumption being that right now, using oil-alternatives is not as profitable). Then I wonder if you truly believe that this is a "free market" issue, and that the U.S. Government is not actively assisting the profits of the most egregious polluters.
I like my hydrogen truck. Now drop your pants and bend over!
So, we were having a discussion, and she tells me she's considering becoming a grief counselor. I repled with, "If a guy comes in you just tell him to 'Grow up and be a man!' and give him a solid cockpunch. That's half the job right there." She asked if I was kidding and I said, "Yes and no." That is literally all I said. Then she proceeded to spend the next hour lecturing me on how heartless I am, how dead inside I am, how various men have cried (when their kids died, etc), how I have no compassion, how I should have no friends for saying something like that, how it made her sick to hear me say that, and how she's not sure she could continue talking to someone who thinks that. I pretty much said nothing the whole time, other than "okay" and "uh-huh". A few times I chimed in with things, like explaining that neither I nor my brother cried at my dad's funeral and how my (adopted) cousin did cry at my grandmother's funeral, but he's a pansy.
Based on that: Is there something seriously wrong with what I said? Am I evil or psychopathic or what? Would you say that she overreacted to a pheonomenal degree and has some major issues? Should men not cry? Regardless of if they should or shouldn't cry, is it wrong to believe they shouldn't?
Coincidentally, while I was typing this I was watching the scene in "The Godfather" where Brando was slapping a guy and yelling at him to "be a man" because he was crying.
Lastly, a number of times, when she was saying how heartless/compassionless I am, I told her how funny that was for her to say. I know she didn't understand why it's funny, I even told her so, but she never asked why it's funny. I'll give you a hint and leave it at that: "Hey Kettle, it's me Pot, you're black!"