A 5.6 earthquake rocked california today at 11:45 a.m. A giant fox was last seen leaving the scene.........

Good movie! go see it! I go sleep now.. it's almost 4 A.M.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7UkRafgxvc&feature=email

Now... correct me if I am wrong here... but isn't the 1st law of thermodynamics a big problem here?

Whatever energy you get out of a system, you must first add to that system. So obviously, the amount of energy you get by burning oxyhydrogen you must first ADD to the system via that of a battery when you convert the water to gas. When you light the gases on fire, you are just speeding them along to combine back into a more stable state. The gases release energy, and recombine to form water... the same energy you put into the system BEFORE by using the battery.

So... this might work for water heaters and such, since it allows you to convert electricity to thermal energy.... but this is just a much fancier way (although maybe more efficient) than just using heating coils and running a current through it. 

Has anyone done the research on this? Is hooking this system up to run off of electricity more efficient than plugging in some heating coils? I know heating coils have always been known to be very inefficient. You are guaranteed some damn clean water at least. This might be a good way to treat water AFTER you have filtered it (but engineers still would want to use chlorine to treat water anyway because it acts as a residual.... it keeps the water clean even AFTER you treat it. This oxyhrdogen system may give you clean water, but you have nothing to KEEP it clean). I doubt the process works really well when you are running a digital signal through sludge.

The job fair was cool, but when they finally called me back with an offer, the big giant construction company low-balled me! I know the economy is bad, but the offer just is terrible. I'm not greedy, but even I know when I'm being taken for a ride ;) The guy on the phone wasn't a very good negotiator, and he kept saying things he probably shouldn't of had that gave me the impression that he was fishing for a deal ;)

Anyway.... this has given me some perspective on things. This railroad job.... it is pretty awesome. I really doubt I'm going to find much better. I realize now that my worries were unfounded, and I'll probably end up working there and really enjoying it. I'm going to turn down the other low-ball one, and after calling up my railroad boss to get some more information, he gave me some re-assurance that they are for sure getting the contract and that I will have something for me in august.

Oh well, funny how things work out. I'll just wait and see.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU NUT CASE :D

This is coming from my civil engineer background: 

Let's face it... we are out of oil. The planet just doesn't have enough oil to fuel everyone. And now with china and india in the equation, it just gets worse. What do we have left?

1) hydro: we've tapped all the hydro power we can from our country... it's very clean and efficient, but there are only so many rivers
2) wind: not practical. We would need to cover the country in wind turbines to power the country
3) solar: not practical. Same problem as wind.
4) Nuclear: expensive. There  just isn't that much uranium out there. We need something plentiful to fuel the entire world.
5) wave: interesting new idea to use the ocean currents.. but I don't see it as being too practical
6) hrodgen fusion?: no one's been able to do it yet

Where does that leave us?

There is one resource that we still have plenty of... more than anyone could ever DREAM of using... and that resource would be COAL.

Our coal reserves are HUGE. When the price of oil reaches a critical limit, and when our economy is on the verge of total collapse... I garanatee you that we are going to revert back to that dirty resource. We'll be left with two options: use it ..... or lose it. People need power in order to survive and it is now apart of our society. Without power our society will fail, and no amount of environmental pressure will stop that from becoming reality.

when people are presented with two options.. protect the environment or have food to EAT..... what do you think they will pick?

Fortunately this isn't as bad as it sounds. There are ways to clean coal powerplants using scrubbers that are extremely expensive. The pollution isn't as bad as some would think. Unfortunately this doesn't solve the car problem... and until someone invents an economical electric or solar car, we are in for some big trouble. Diesel trucks are essential to our economy, without them goods produced in our factories would just sit uselessly in their warehouses. This is going to be our biggest problem of them all... how are we EVER going to replace our heavy trucks? construction vehicles? You just can't generate enough horse power for these sort of heavy vehicles on just batteries. 

what would I do if I were ruler of the world? I would revert us back to coal as our primary resource and clean it.. no matter the cost. I would then try to use as much "free" clean energy such as hydro, nuclear, and wind. I would then reserve oil only for the absolute necessities... like pavement, plastics, and diesel. I would then make all the cars in the world electric... at the very least.... and make it illegal to drive gas guzzling cars that can easily be replaced with the alternative.

lol you

"Operation Chaos," Rush Limbaugh's campaign urging Republicans to vote for Hillary Clinton in Democratic primaries, has been very effective. It doubled Republican turnout in Ohio and Texas, boosting Clinton and prolonging the Democratic race. But in Ohio, it was also almost certainly illegal.

Ohio law requires that citizens genuinely support a political party in order to vote in its primary. To change parties for a primary, a citizen must pledge, under the penalty of election falsification, that she is affiliated with the party and "supports" its principles. Lying on the pledge is a felony, punishable by up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine. The law also stipulates that poll workers have a "duty" to challenge voters who are "not a member of the political party whose ballot the person desires to vote."

In Cuyahoga, Ohio's largest county, 16,000 Republicans switched parties for the primary last month. Several did so in bad faith, without truly changing parties, according to newspaper interviews and Internet postings. The Cuyahoga Board of Elections recently voted to investigate the matter; a report is expected on March 31. Despite the massive crossover voting, however, prosecutions are considered unlikely. A spokesperson for Ohio's Attorney General told Alternet that it is "very hard to prosecute" crossover voting cases, since the crime depends on proving a voter's motive on Election Day.

Limbaugh's motives, however, have been perfectly clear from the start. "I'm asking people to cross over, and if they can stomach it and I know it's a difficult thing to do, vote for Clinton," Limbaugh said before the Ohio primary. The goal, he explained, was to ensure Barack Obama was "bloodied up politically" and to extend the Democratic primary "soap opera."