One of the toughest problems facing the “Hydrogen Economy” is storing the Hydrogen. Hydrogen is of course quite volatile. We saw with Challenger what happens when you mix Hydrogen and Oxygen. We’ve come a long way since then, and we’re dealing with slightly different materials and quantities, but the difficulty remains. How do you store …
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Bolivians move toward elections
Over the past weeks and months Bolivians have been protesting against their government. The protests have been intense, but largely peaceful. It has been mainly students, farmers, working people and indigenous people railing against the governments (Audio Podcast Available) Unfortunately, I do see these protests as something of a harbinger of things to come. There …
17,070 days to go (or less)
That’s how long we have before the oil spigot runs dry on our current reserves. That’s 46 years… 2051. I will be 73. My child will be in the prime of her life… 47. This is based on numbers in this factbook which compiled estimates from a number of different studies conducted by various groups …