Could Hydrogen Fuel Cells Hit Rails Before Roads?

NPR released an interview last Labor Day weekend:

"Some advocates think hydrogen-powered railroads could jumpstart the hydrogen economy. One fuel-cell locomotive is already undergoing tests. Ira Flatow and guests discuss the possibility of using hydrogen, rather than diesel fuel or electricity, to power trains."

Guests:

Melanie Johnson, research project manager, Fuel Cell Locomotive Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, US Army Corps of Engineers, Champaign, Ill.


Alistair Miller, senior scientific associate, Office of the Principal Scientist, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Chalk River Laboratories, Chalk River, Ontario, Canada

Robert Remick, director, Hydrogen Technologies and Systems Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO.

Nobody Cares You're Gay

Fivethirtyeight.com and the Washington Post report some stats (stats!!!!)

But I'm the only one who cared to embed the video



Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council (FRC) reported the results from the Values Voter Summit 2009:

Ralph Z. Hallow publishes: Abortion ranked first among issues of concern to straw-poll voters, getting 41 percent of the vote, with protection of religious liberty second with 18 percent. Opposition to same-sex marriage was third at 7 percent. Prayer in public schools, once a major concern among religious and social conservatives, ranked a surprising 10th place in the poll.


Nate Silver at 538 points out: "These are not the tea-partiers, who have a libertarian bent. This is a forum, rather, sponsored by the Family Research Council, an organization which continues to insist that homosexuality is curable and to link it to pedophilia." he continues "This is not to suggest that these voters have become pro-gay marriage. If any of them was spotted in leather chaps at Remington's after the event -- it was not, I assure you, to show solidarity for their gay brothers and sisters."