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Crunching the Numbers on a Hydrogen Economy
mattnyc99 writes "In its new cover story, 'The Truth About Hydrogen,' Popular Mechanics magazine takes a close look at how close the United States is to powering its homes, cars and economy with hydrogen — including a calculation of where all the hydrogen would come from to meet President Bush's demands. Interesting that they break down the future of hydropower not by its advantages but by its challenges: production, storage, distribution and use."
Nah. He has an enter/return key on his keyboard. It's just that SlashDot's "Post Comment" ignores it. At the end of each of the sentences above I pressed my return key twice. (And here also.) When is SlashDot gonna fix it?
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Select "Plain Old Text" instead of "HTML Formatted"
According to the NHTSA, 42,636 people were killed in traffic accidents in 2004.
Here is a list of the top fifteen causes of death for 2004 from the CDC:
1) Diseases of heart;
2) Malignant neoplasms;
3) Cerebrovascular diseases;
4) Chronic lower respiratory diseases;
5) Accidents (unintentional injuries);
6) Diabetes mellitus;
7) Alzheimer's disease;
8) Influenza and pneumonia;
9) Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis;
10) Septicemia;
11) Intentional self-harm (suicide);
12) Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis;
13) Essential (primary) hypertension and hypertensive renal disease;
14) Parkinson's disease; and
15) Pneumonitis due to solids and liquids.
The bottom on that list accounts for over 15,000 deaths. I wonder how much the government spends fighting these compared to terrorism?