Advice: Never let the same snake bite you twice

 

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Down the Unicorn Trail – Green Energy Edition

Hydrogen may someday replace petroleum fuels with an emphasis on may. Toyota, for one, is betting it will.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji9IXHc-AH0&ab_channel=TechMachine

Producing hydrogen is complicated with carbon dioxide, the environazis whipping boy, often a byproduct. There are some promising alternatives.

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Noted in this article is the use of ruthenium, a rare earth mineral from the platinum family. Past blogs have covered rare earth deposits in Wyoming, hence my interest. 

Platinum Group Elements, or PGEs, are a group of six metallic elements with similar chemical and physical properties that are often found together: platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd), iridium (Ir), osmium (Os), rhodium (Rh), and ruthenium (Ru)

My contrarian nature immediately wonders where the supply of sufficient quantities of water  will come from. Can sea water be used? Other sources of non potable water?

Will there be byproducts and will they be pollutants?

What burns my ass? Fucking politicians

Due to gerrymandering and slick maneuvering Kevin Priola is my State Senator. He has never faced the voters in the district created to protect his turncoat ass. Once an Adams County Rino he did have the decency to changes his party affiliation. He is part of the idiots determined to stop petroleum extraction in Colorado.

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Just to affirm they are caring, they plan to set aside monies to help displaced oil patch workers find other employment. How nice of them. This cynic says the only jobs created  will be for those party hacks administering the programs.

Things that make you go Hmmm – self driving vehicles

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Beg s the question of what is more dangerous? A drunk, or a self driving vehicle?

Colorado Primary – (P)regressive Fail

Trump is on the ballot and Jena Griswold (Secretary of State) has made an ass out of herself on the national stage. Does it matter? Californicated Colorado is so blue Trump’s chances of carrying the state in a general election is about the same as the Dallas Cowboys playing in the Super Bowl.

About the click bait title. Recently there was a scuffle between two residents. I was sitting three feet away looking directly at the participants. Now some residents are trying to keep the issue alive with more and more lurid stories. My eyewitness account is now being diminished as, “taking sides”.

The umbrage locker is  empty, for now.  As always, YMMV