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 …
Capacitors, AC and Comets
A little bit of a roundup of interesting tidbits today. First, from Treehugger.com a couple stories… BMW is working on “Super Capacitors” that will take the place of the battery packs that you find in todays Hybrid cars. Current Hybrids, like the Prius and Civic Hybrid store their electrical power in batteries. Batteries are heavy, …