System to produce Hydrogen onboard

The System: "Engineuity has developed a technology and method for producing hydrogen on-board, thereby overcoming the obstacles associated with manufacturing, transporting and storing of hydrogen.

The technology is based on the reaction between light metals like Aluminum/Magnesium with water to produce Hydrogen and steam. The pressurized hot mixture is fed to a modified internal combustion engine. Inside the engine the Hydrogen is then oxidized by air. In this way, both the chemical energy stored in the Hydrogen and the thermal energy produced by the reaction of the metal with water, are utilized."

US agency says tax breaks too costly, need review - Yahoo! News

US agency says tax breaks too costly, need review - Yahoo! News: "The GAO study said annual federal revenue losses tripled in real terms from $243 billion in 1974 to $728 billion in 2004. Tax expenditures peaked in 2002 at $783 billion before the full effects of the last recession cycled through the Internal Revenue Service."

Entergy Unit Seeks Bankruptcy Protection - Yahoo! News

Entergy Unit Seeks Bankruptcy Protection - Yahoo! News: "BATON ROUGE, La. - Facing huge rebuilding costs and a loss of revenue following Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans-based subsidiary of Entergy Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection Friday."

Testing slimming powers of tequila's agave - Yahoo! News

Testing slimming powers of tequila's agave - Yahoo! News: "Now however, researchers from the University of Guadalajara, close to the town of Tequila, the cradle of Mexico's famous alcoholic export, say the plant's powers go beyond inducing euphoric highs followed by crushing hangovers.
'The structure of agave contains, among other things, substances known as fructans,' Dr Jorge Segura, who is leading the investigation, told Reuters on Thursday. 'Fructans reduce cholesterol (and) alter the absorption of fat in the intestine,
at least in animals.'"

Katrina Turns the Poor Into the Destitute - Yahoo! News

Katrina Turns the Poor Into the Destitute - Yahoo! News: "They've become a new class of poor, one that makes the old class look well off by comparison. They have not only lost their jobs and their homes; they're also isolated from family and friends, putting them at great risk for depression and substance abuse."

"Hygiene hypothesis" linked to heart disease risk - Yahoo! News

"Hygiene hypothesis" linked to heart disease risk - Yahoo! News: "According to the investigators, 'improved hygiene in early childhood might partially explain the greatest epidemic of the 20th century -- coronary heart disease.'"

Overweight, obese could swell 50 percent in a decade: WHO - Yahoo! News

Overweight, obese could swell 50 percent in a decade: WHO - Yahoo! News: "GENEVA (AFP) - The number of overweight and obese people worldwide is set to increase by half over the next ten years, heightening their health risks, the World Health Organisation warned.
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Around one billion people are currently affected worldwide, and the figure is set to rise to 1.5 billion by 2015 if current trends continue, the WHO said ahead of annual World Heart Day, which is marked Sunday."

Model 300 HFID Heated Total Hydrocarbon Analyzer

Model 300 HFID Heated Total Hydrocarbon Analyzer: "Product Name:
Model 300 HFID Heated Total Hydrocarbon Analyzer

Product Description:
The CAI Heated Total Hydrocarbon Analyzer Model 300 HFID is designed to continuously measure the total concentration of hydrocarbons within a gaseous sample. It contains an internal heated sample pump and an adjustable temperature heated oven. All components in contact with the sample are maintained at the oven set temperature preventing condensation."

Public Interests vs. Corporate Profits (by Fenghua Wang)

Wang Index: "Subscribing to Democracy through the Internet"

Hog confinement Problems in iowa

Hog Operations bother neighbors

Hog confinement emissions

HYDROGEN SULFIDE: At even low levels, hydrogen sulfide can cause eye irritation, dizziness, coughing and headaches. At higher levels, most often found inside or in confined spaces, it can kill, as it did in Des Moines when two sewer workers were overcome by the fumes in July 2002.


AMMONIA: It can cause respiratory problems, and death at high levels.


METHANE: The greenhouse gas contributes to global climate change. It can be burned for power, if collected, and can smother at high levels.


ENDOTOXINS: The cell walls of these bacteria can lead to
respiratory problems.


TETRACHLOROETHYLENE: These are associated with cancers, kidney and liver trouble, eye and lung irritation, headaches and neurological problems at high concentrations.


My Thoughts:
First, hogs do not produce Tetrachloroethylene, no matter what you feed them, This is the sterilizing agent that is commonly prescribed for disinfection. Wouldn't steam cleaning be just as good if not better?
This is a good mine waiting for a BioGas Engineer.
-TMF

Getting More Miles To The Gallon -- Fast

Getting More Miles To The Gallon -- Fast

Summary of Technologies today available to make cars use less gas.

1. Lighter material reduce weight by 10% get around 5% increase in fuel efficiency.
   
2. reduce air drag could increase effeciency by 3%
   
3. Six Speeds from only four could reduce fuel usage by 7%
   
4. Smarter Engines (like using only 4 of the 8 cylinders while on the highway at cruising speed.) could save another 5%
   
5. Biggest SAVINGS Reduce cars burning gasoline at an IDLE while sitting at a RED LIGHT. 15% of gas is wasted sitting idling at RED LIGHTS. This is the most brilliant part of the Prius - it turns its engine off at an standstill like at RED LIGHTS. The technology is called a STARTER GENERATOR that Spins the Engine quickly up to speed when the person takes their foot off the brake. This technology could save the BIGGEST AMOUNT OF GASOLINE: 10%!!!
   

   
   My thoughts:
   WHOOPDEE DOO!!! They forgot about my Tornado air intake attachment which gives another 1-2 %... This is great technology but if we just replaced the damn RED LIGHTS with roundabouts 98% of the idling standstill traffic would be removed. Saving the closer to the full 15% now wasted as well as the electrical bills from all those shitty RED LIGHTS. That has got to be about $100,000 per intersection replaced per year, times the number of intersections replaced. That is Massive SAVINGS!!!
   
   
   When will people see!!! Roundabouts, Now!!! Roundabouts, Now!!! Roundabouts, Now!!! Roundabouts, Now!!!
   
   
   - TMF
   

PIER group of the DOE

Program Area Description these are the types of "awesome geeks" that the coalition to rethink the cities seeks to get together with those "softy-type tree huggers". Check out what they are doing.

~Ecocity Living Planet Network ~ Tree Huggers in Need of More Biologists and Engineers

~Ecocity Living Planet Network A very nice gang of tree huggers that really need some more engineers in my opinion. where are???: the mentions of changing the density of City centers, zoning/taxing for environmental impact of buildings in city centers, Taxing the land instead of the buildings - to promote better land utilization, PERMACULTURE, Urban Agricultural Usury, Cogeneration Energy Sources, Passive solar mid rise buildings that our city centers really need, Roundabouts for surface roadway effeciency today until we get better vehicle technologies, etc.

Urban ecology study witnessing the birth of a "designer ecosystem"

Urban ecology study witnessing the birth of a "designer ecosystem": "The project scientists increasingly are convinced that they are looking at a new kind of ecosystem "one that is radically different from the native desert that surrounds it and driven in part by forces unlike those usually studied by ecologists.
"It's not what people generally think. They think there's either nature or there are cities," says Charles Redman, director of ASU's Center for Environmental Studies and one of the project's principal investigators. That's what this is all about � there is nature in the city. The city is part of nature."
The development of urban LTERs was considered a major leap forward in the field of ecology because they included human culture as a driver of , and responder to, the ecosystem being studied, and because the research would include studies far outside traditional ecology or even the biosciences, climatology and earth sciences: sociology, anthropology, engineering and economics."