Glenn Old tops up with water


"We have developed our HHO generator with safety first, designing a unit that produces enough hydrogen to safely gain up to 60 per cent increase in fuel economy and up to 30 per cent reduction in carbon emissions," Mr Old said.

"We have gained national display rights to our product. Our purpose is to reduce the public dependency on foreign oil and we believe on a large scale with our device we will be able to remove smog from our capital cities within five years.

Our unique patented device simply converts water from H2O into a gas called HHO, this gas is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. Thus turning any vehicle into a water/petrol or water/diesel hybrid.

Although this technology has been available for some time, its new application hasn't. This gas is then fed into any current engine, petrol or diesel. The gas mixes with the current fuel and increases the flame burn rate and reduces GHGE.

During testing at a government-approved air care facility in Vancouver, Canada, a reduction of 51.5 per cent of emissions was achieved on a 5.9 litre Cummins turbo diesel engine.

One of the best features of our product is that the gas is produced on demand, so there are no storage requirements of hydrogen. You start your vehicle it produces the gas, turn the vehicle off (and) production ceases."

This product should cost under $1000 and became available May 30, 2010. Follow the related link below for more information. Please note that while this makes sense to me, I have not reviewed it in detail and am not in any way endorsing this product. Proceed at your own expense.

First, let me remind everyone that I personally own this server, in fact some of the hardware is actually at my house. I am posting this entry as an individual who happens to know a lot about the measure and how it was formed.

MDUSD is asking voters to continue measure C, not to create a new measure. The update will include new projects as has been stated, however, totals posted in the paper are sums of the existing & the new collectively. MDUSD is not about to turn $348MM into 1.8b of debt as the paper implies. The 1.8b is the total of the previous measure and the new measure combined. It seems convenient for the papers to sensationalize the numbers by skipping certain details. They are technically correct because it is all together Measure C, but they neglect to clarify it is the sum total.

Another thing, if PG&E rates only increase 3.3% a year for the next 40 years, the solar portion of the bond will save $198MM above the investment cost vs paying PG&E. As you know, PG&E almost always goes up by 5.5% or more. This year it went up closer to 6.5%. If PG&E rates increase by 5.5% a year for the next 40 years, solar will save $329MM.

As the MDUSD is trying to get $346MM, the return on the solar would almost pay for the principle of the bond and the difference would be the $17MM and interest on the whole amount. This is pretty good use of our money. The MDUSD is a necessary entity that we will have to support anyway, this measure takes a big bite out of our burden as tax payers.

An added benefit is the immediate injection of funds to the district general fund through the solar incentives. This money will act like a booster shot to help preserve jobs and services. Although there is no guarantee. What we do know is, without it, the cuts will continue and get deeper than with the funds.

This measure will not increase our payments as tax payers, it simply adds to the duration of the original measure. Please consider these points when you cast your vote. And please, vote.

Well, it is time for me to start a long weekend. Before I do, I thought I would remind everyone to have a fun but safe weekend. Also don't forget why we celebrate. All those who gave their lives for our way of life are the reason for the holiday.

So, have fun, wear sunblock, and recycle. If you BBQ keep control of it and put it out when you are done cooking to minimize CO2 and wasted coals.

If you click over to my Environmental Resources Forum, you will see I have a request out to anyone who can help me learn from first hand experience how open source text books are working. To date, I do not have any feedback. However, there is a huge potential savings in money, paper and back strain as well as hours tracking and handling materials if e-readers and open text books both become viable as teaching aids.

For now the e-readers battery life, color rendering and notation tracking are key limitations. Amazon has just finished a real world survey at several universities and this is a summary of what was learned:

Students pulled no punches telling Amazon what they thought of its $489 e-reader. The Kindle DX failed its first test. At the University of Virginia, as many as 80% of MBA students who participated in Amazon's pilot program said they would not recommend the Kindle DX as a classroom study aid (though more than 90 percent liked it for pleasure reading). At Princeton and Reed, students complained they couldn't scribble notes in the margins, easily highlight passages, or fully appreciate color charts and graphics.

At least Amazon is asking the questions and hopefully they are also listening.

Let me first say that CNN has a great article summarizing the whole Gulf Oil Spill situation today. However, it is still a few pages long. After reading headlines, one question kept hitting me, what is this "Top Kill" procedure?

From the article I will summarize it as this: "Top Kill" referres to a process where viscous material, twice the density of water is forced into the opening creating a clog. As the material is viscous, this is not permanent and requires finishing the job with a cement cap.

The problem lies with the fact that this procedure has never been done under water, let alone 5000 feet under water. The pressure created by the weight of the water may have a direct effect on this process. The math is still being worked out, but it looks like the procedure has about a 60 to 70% chance of working.

If it fails today, the Obama administration plans to take over the operation.