I found out that the KC Metro bus service is now on Google Transit, so you can put a start address and end address, and it tells you which buses to take and where to transfer. In goofing around with it, I found that I can go most places via bus if I use the bus stop two blocks over. That's good to know, I guess, if I find myself without access to a car. <shrug>
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
McCain on Health Care
John McCain has a new ad about his approach to making health care more affordable. It involves making health care tax deductible up to $5000. That's almost as great as tax free gas during the summer months. He is speaking my language. I like it.
New Deal, er, Missouri Promise
Jay Nixon, who is running for Governor of Missouri, has proposed a plan where potential college students who show a need, commit to 50 hours of community service, keep their grades up, and avoid disciplinary action, get 100% of their tuition paid out of state coffers. I guess it's like the G.I. Bill, but you only have to do 50 hours of community service instead of military service. It's not exactly a Pell Grant or a scholarship, per se. It's not exactly a "work study" program. Only 50 hours? I worked pretty hard during the summers, and my dad worked a second job, when I was in college. 50 hours? So there's an online petition to get this on a ballot or legislative agenda somewhere. College education is important, and expensive, but should it be free? I guess nothing is free, so I mean, should taxpayers pay for it? Is there an age limit on this program?
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Just add water (continued)
I'm still intrigued by these HHO generators and the concept of using the car battery to fracture water to produce hydrogen fuel for a regular combustion engine. Apparently, it is nothing new. Here's a former NASA employee from the Philippines, Daniel Dingel, who invented this thing a long time ago. Check out his converted Toyota that runs on water! It's amazing.
I cannot find a technical reason why we're not driving these today. The only thing preventing it is political and/or entrenched economic interests.
Here's a better understanding of how water is being engineered in a negative energy vacuum inside the toroid (donut) coil with RF pulses to cause the hydrogen molecules to just fall off the hydroxy ion. The resulting hydroxy gas fuel is more powerful when burned than the power required to create it from regular tap water. This free source of energy is a gift from God. I think this is a huge leap forward in technology. I found a message board and a Yahoo Group on the topic.
You can get pre-built HHO generators for reasonable prices on Ebay. These would pay for themselves in just a few months.
I found another seller on Ebay, who sells smaller HHO generators of a different design, MAP sensor adjusters, and O2 sensor extenders (an alternative to an EFIE), so you can tweak the fuel mixture to get the best results. From what I've read, though, an EFIE is the best solution for adjusting the O2 sensor inputs into the car's computer to accommodate the new exhaust profile. He has some great tips in the text of his auctions, and the pricesare low.
I cannot find a technical reason why we're not driving these today. The only thing preventing it is political and/or entrenched economic interests.
Here's a better understanding of how water is being engineered in a negative energy vacuum inside the toroid (donut) coil with RF pulses to cause the hydrogen molecules to just fall off the hydroxy ion. The resulting hydroxy gas fuel is more powerful when burned than the power required to create it from regular tap water. This free source of energy is a gift from God. I think this is a huge leap forward in technology. I found a message board and a Yahoo Group on the topic.
You can get pre-built HHO generators for reasonable prices on Ebay. These would pay for themselves in just a few months.
I found another seller on Ebay, who sells smaller HHO generators of a different design, MAP sensor adjusters, and O2 sensor extenders (an alternative to an EFIE), so you can tweak the fuel mixture to get the best results. From what I've read, though, an EFIE is the best solution for adjusting the O2 sensor inputs into the car's computer to accommodate the new exhaust profile. He has some great tips in the text of his auctions, and the pricesare low.
Constitution Party Convention in KC
Today is the first day of the Constitution Party Convention here in Kansas City. I haven't seen really any news coverage, but I find a lot of their views kind of refreshing. . . and very strictly adhering to the Constitution and certain hand-picked Biblical principles, which they've more than mildly distorted.
http://constitutionparty.com/view_events.php
It's clear that our system was designed to work best with two parties. The whole "Ross Perot got us Bill Clinton." mantra pretty much quells any thoughts of voting for a third party candidate, except that they tend to get the protest vote when you can't stomach voting for either of the major party choices.
http://constitutionparty.com/view_events.php
It's clear that our system was designed to work best with two parties. The whole "Ross Perot got us Bill Clinton." mantra pretty much quells any thoughts of voting for a third party candidate, except that they tend to get the protest vote when you can't stomach voting for either of the major party choices.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Just add water.
A loud storm woke me up, so I thought I'd write a blog entry. The rain is good. Adam D. and I got the garden planted on Sunday afternoon. It needs the water.
Not to bore everyone with what interests me at the moment, but I just spent most of the evening reading about oxyhydrogen generators you can build at home or buy off the shelf, install in your car, and increase your fuel economy by 25 to 50%. It converts water (HOH) into "Brown's Gas" (oxyhydrogen, HHO). This oxyhydrogen on demand makes your fuel burn more efficiently and gives your engine more power. Now that gasoline prices exceed $3.33 per gallon, this seems worthwhile.
source: gasbuddy.com
For this invention to be completely carbon neutral, you'd have to add another battery to your car and add solar panels to charge it. Otherwise, you're using power from your alternator. But, my understanding is that the alternator makes much more electricity than is needed to charge your battery and the field current which is allowed to pass the regulator is based on feedback voltage from the battery, so the battery only gets juice when it needs it, so using this energy to make an oxyhydrogen additive is gainful because it's otherwise wasted. Furthermore, the expense of installing the system is tax deductible.
Here are some plans for making an HHO generator out of some #80 CPVC pipe and concentric stainless steel exhaust pipes with a 1mm gap. These pipes are the diodes and electricity is pulsed at a frequency you can tweak for the best HHO to fuel mixture for your particular engine. http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/feb2/carplans_doc.htm
On YouTube, I've seen pure HHO lawnmowers and cars, so using water plus a pinch of baking soda for fuel with an electrical assist to convert it to HHO is a viable emerging technology.
Not to bore everyone with what interests me at the moment, but I just spent most of the evening reading about oxyhydrogen generators you can build at home or buy off the shelf, install in your car, and increase your fuel economy by 25 to 50%. It converts water (HOH) into "Brown's Gas" (oxyhydrogen, HHO). This oxyhydrogen on demand makes your fuel burn more efficiently and gives your engine more power. Now that gasoline prices exceed $3.33 per gallon, this seems worthwhile.
source: gasbuddy.com
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For this invention to be completely carbon neutral, you'd have to add another battery to your car and add solar panels to charge it. Otherwise, you're using power from your alternator. But, my understanding is that the alternator makes much more electricity than is needed to charge your battery and the field current which is allowed to pass the regulator is based on feedback voltage from the battery, so the battery only gets juice when it needs it, so using this energy to make an oxyhydrogen additive is gainful because it's otherwise wasted. Furthermore, the expense of installing the system is tax deductible.
Here are some plans for making an HHO generator out of some #80 CPVC pipe and concentric stainless steel exhaust pipes with a 1mm gap. These pipes are the diodes and electricity is pulsed at a frequency you can tweak for the best HHO to fuel mixture for your particular engine. http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/feb2/carplans_doc.htm
On YouTube, I've seen pure HHO lawnmowers and cars, so using water plus a pinch of baking soda for fuel with an electrical assist to convert it to HHO is a viable emerging technology.
Friday, April 18, 2008
Suspending the Gas Tax
I read about how John McCain's economic plan includes suspending the gas tax between Memorial Day and Labor Day. They tried to pass something like this in Texas last year, but it was quashed on the Senate side after the House unanimously passed it. The only people against it are the people who get this earmarked transportation money, the road builders. The price of everything goes up when gas prices go up, so the reasons they give in this press release seem like a small price to pay for getting a smaller price to pay for everything that's transported by taxed gasoline.
http://www.artba.org/news/press_releases/2008/04-15-08.htm
Boo hoo. I'm for repairing and upgrading highway infrastructure, but I think the states can handle paying the bill if the Federal Highway Trust Fund is missing a few months of gas tax revenue. And the argument that gas tax relief will cause car accidents is quite a stretch.
One of their reasons is highway congestion wastes gas. It's a bit ironic that most of the congestion I experience is due to lane closures in construction zones, for which the road builders are responsible.
18.4 cents per gallon of gasoline is Federal gas tax. Who knew? Ouch. Diesel tax is 24.4 cents. That's wacky. Diesel cars are less polluting than petrol cars. This disparity in the fuel tax rates encourages pollution.
http://www.artba.org/news/press_releases/2008/04-15-08.htm
Boo hoo. I'm for repairing and upgrading highway infrastructure, but I think the states can handle paying the bill if the Federal Highway Trust Fund is missing a few months of gas tax revenue. And the argument that gas tax relief will cause car accidents is quite a stretch.
One of their reasons is highway congestion wastes gas. It's a bit ironic that most of the congestion I experience is due to lane closures in construction zones, for which the road builders are responsible.
18.4 cents per gallon of gasoline is Federal gas tax. Who knew? Ouch. Diesel tax is 24.4 cents. That's wacky. Diesel cars are less polluting than petrol cars. This disparity in the fuel tax rates encourages pollution.
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