This is BS! (now I’m angry... rant to follow)

Progressives scream about how much they hate Wall Street, Banks and Giant Corporations while they give them $Trillions in taxpayer money. Who are progressives really working for… the workers or the corporations? Hypocrites!

Obama is now begging Congress to raise the debt ceiling AGAIN!

http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/senate-must-raise-debt-ceiling-above-12t/

Obama and the Democrat-Socialists have almost DOUBLED the national debt in just the last few months and almost ALL of that spending benefited a few giant corporations and Wall Street firms. The NeoCon Republican traitors HELPED!

Keynesianism-Marxism central planning is CRAZY!

Now these “progressives” want a Public Healthcare "Option" in order to drive the private health insurance companies out of business so there will be NO competition against a socialist medical system which MUST ultimately ration care to control costs. Since when did Socialism become progressive? Since the beginning of the Progressive movement.

What about frivolous lawsuits? What about killing monopoly by allowing us to buy insurance across state lines? What about Healthcare Savings Accounts?

What about leaving me alone and getting your dirty progressive hand out of my pants!!!!!

So how is Central Planning doing?

The post office is bankrupt
Medicare is bankrupt
Medicaid is bankrupt
Socialist Insecurity is bankrupt
Those States that redistribute the most are bankrupt.
The “faith and credit” in the Fiat unFederal noReserve Note is Collapsing worldwide.
The NeoCon military empire and Progressive socialist spending are bankrupting the US.

And now they want to run medicine??????

Meanwhile, Chu is giving MORE of OUR money to Hydrogen research??????

Obama’s Change = MORE of the SAME!!!

Whatever happened to the 9th, 10th & 14th Amendments? Do the words “necessary and proper” in section 8, clause 18 of the Constitution negate any and all limitations on federal power over We, the Forgotten Taxpaying Slaves?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessary-and-proper_clause

Progressive-Fascist Socialists think we are just cows to be milked to feed the giant corporation/gov’t baby. Progressives think we have NO rights that gov’t didn’t give to us. Warning: Whoever gives can also take away! Liberty, freedom, rights?

Chu… STOP SQUANDERING OUR MONEY AND GIVE BACK OUR CONSTITUTION!!!!

(Obama is the JOKER creating chaos so the criminal progressives can take over the asylum)

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Nice rant Tim, except it is the elected members of congress who authorized the funding for H2. An appointed Cabinet Secretary cannot change the appropriation. If people are upset, they can vote them out next year. We only get the representation we deserve.

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I said to stop any subsidies toward everything, let the consumers decide, it's them that drive own and operate the industrialized car. Stop any expenditure toward anyone not selling for cash a green car like let's say, honda, toyota, gm, ford, chrysler, volk, mercedes, nissan, peugeot, mitshubischi, porsche, winnabago, boeing, ktm, bombardier, kawasaki, suzuki, harley davidson, ferrari, bentley, jaguard, buggatti, etc. These cars can be converted to green for 500$ to 2 000$ approx and nobody is offering them while casching money from consumers, tax-payers including depts put on taxpayer until years 2010 till let say year 3000 and more if we observe how it grow and how fast it's handle.

So we can observe that the more you pay tax, the more they hires personnals to tax you even more, like let's say subsidies to study how to commercialize a green car without pollution and no imported crude oil while negating since 1908 domestic, unlimited, non-polluting natural gas.

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It is nice to know that Dr. Steven Chu wants to make sure that the $100 million allocated for hydrogen is spent wisely. Presumably he has the same standard for the 2.5 billion allocated for battery research.

Yet the best battery around might very well be a hydrogen storage tank itself, as electricity can be converted into hydrogen and stored there. This hydrogen can then be used as raw fuel to supplement fossil fuels, or it can be converted back to electricity. And if some of that $100 is spent to make low pressure storage tanks a reality (University of Delaware just got funding to look further into charred chicken feather microtubes) hydrogen storage may outpace lithium-ion batteries no matter how many billions are spend on them. Indeed, business folks seem to have figured that much out and are putting their money on hydrogen.

In any event, here is a comment submitted elsewhere on the Mazda RX-8 Hydrogen RE that might have some relevance here:

Back in 1977 Mazda learned that hydrogen was better than gasoline to power its rotary engine because the flame front of hydrogen is much faster and can reach across the long and flat combustion chamber of the rotary.

Moreover, forty years ago NASA scientist learned that even small amounts of hydrogen added to gasoline improves mileage because it allows the leaning out of the fuel mixture:

"Lean-mixture-ratio combustion in internal-combustion engines has the potential of producing low emissions and higher thermal efficiency for several reasons. First, excess oxygen in the charge further oxidizes unburned hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide. Second, excess oxygen lowers the peak combustion temperatures, which inhibits the formation of oxides of nitrogen. Third, the lower combustion temperatures increase the mixture specific heat ratio by decreasing the net dissociation losses. Fourth, as the specific heat ratio increases, the cycle thermal efficiency also increases, which gives the potential for better fuel economy. NASA Technical Note, May 1977, "Emissions and Total Energy Consumption of a Multicylinder Piston Engine Running on Gasoline and a Hydrogen-Gasoline Mixture"

Much of this was confirmed again last month by Changwei Ji and Shuofeng Wang at the Beijing University of Technology. They outfitted a 4 cylinder engine with hydrogen injectors, as well as with gasoline injectors, and found that adding hydrogen allowed them to cut down the gasoline used during idle and low-load, which happens to be where car and truck engines spent half their lives:

"The test results showed that, with the increase of hydrogen enrichment level, engine-indicated thermal efficiency was improved, and the lean burn limit was extended. The peak in-cylinder temperature and in-cylinder temperature at exhaust valve opening decrease with the increase of excess air ratio and hydrogen blending level."
See http://www.greencarcongress.com/2009/08/ji-20090819.html

The question for the Mazda engineers is why did they not provide for the mixing of hydrogen with gasoline in the RX-8 Hydrogen RE, since the car comes with both fuel systems onboard? Even a small amount of hydrogen would have improved mileage on gasoline mode as the ensuing fast flame front would have propagated across the combustion chamber and burn more of the gasoline to produce power. As it is now, the unburned gas goes out to the catalytic converter, thus further perpetuating the characteristic high fuel consumption of these engines.

Mazda’s choices aside, however, some would rather see internal combustion engines abandoned outright than spend money, time and effort to improve them with hydrogen. But there are benefits in doing so, and maybe we ought to think about them.

First, using hydrogen in our vehicles now will increase demand for it, and thus hasten the setting up of the hydrogen infrastructure which will be needed for fuel cells.

Second, the increased use of hydrogen will streamline the way it is made or transported, and therefore drive down its cost. And as an added bonus, it will makes us more comfortable around hydrogen, and alleviate current fears of explosion.

Third, using hydrogen in our internal combustion engines now may salvage a century's worth of tooling investment in them, as well as in the transmissions, axles, etc. Whether we like it or not, all these will be around for a while, so we might as well make them efficient while they are with us.

Fourth, using hydrogen to improve the mileage of our cars, trucks, boats, and airplanes, should reduce our need for foreign oil, air pollution, and greenhouse gases. This may seem impossible since hydrogen is now made predominately from natural gas. However, we are presently implementing plans to make hydrogen from electricity at hydro-electric plants, geothermal plant, nuclear plants, and from electricity derived from the sun and the wind. Moreover, we are trying to make hydrogen from methane in farms and waste dumps; and directly from sewage, bacteria, seawater, and most promising, sunlight itself.

Fifth, since hydrogen increases the thermal efficiency of fossil fuels across the board (gasoline, diesel, alcohol, liquefied coal, coal, methane, and natural gas) mixing it with these fuels should improve the efficiency of furnaces, water heaters, boilers, jet engines, and perhaps even the natural gas or coal electric generators themselves.

Sixth, a greater use of hydrogen will hasten its implementation for storing energy in a pure and potent form. Just like we can store electrical energy in batteries, we can also store it by converting into hydrogen in a tank. Once there, the hydrogen can be used when needed, and where needed. Moreover, metal hydrides, nanotubes, or even cheap charred chicken feathers, can store hydrogen at low pressure, and can make it possible to ship huge quantities of energy in the form of hydrogen to remote corners of the earth.

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