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Paul Pennyworth wrote:Dallas Shakes.....Several Small Earthquakes Rattle Texas, Oklahomahttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,445568,00.htmlYou know I could have sworn! that that day I heard my shit rattle here in florida for like 2 seconds. I thought I was trippin till I just read this. I didnt feel anything but but lights on my ceiling fan made noise like they were shook. My fan was off.

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Paul Pennyworth wrote:Paloma....http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gVWj ... 3QO0Cayman Islands, Cuba ...http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-11- ... WjAAPaloma Catagory 4...http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gVWj ... 4ANVVO0P.S. Glad to see you back on board, Croxford...

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Paul Pennyworth wrote:Paul Pennyworth wrote:Paloma....http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gVWj ... 3QO0Cayman Islands, Cuba ...http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-11- ... WjAAPaloma Catagory 4...http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gVWj ... 4ANVVO0P.S. Glad to see you back on board, Croxford... Paloma Hits Cuba....http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jPT ... 8255Paloma Weakens...http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/ ... 6685.shtml

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Sylmar and Montecito....http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art ... QD94FGLKO0

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Hurricanes of 2008....http://www.thedailygreen.com/print-this ... s-47111405

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Indonesia Earthquake...http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008- ... 369883.htm

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Iran Quake....http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8708281709

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Paul Pennyworth wrote:http://www.wired.com/cars/energy/news/2004/09/65080 PP: I copied and pasted this article from the previous posted link in order to preserve the article in case it becomes a no-show like the previous posts' article on the AMCGremlin by Wikipedia... Nice Ride: The Hydrogen GremlinAmit Asaravala 09.27.04 The success of UCLA's hydrogen Gremlin and the fallout from the 1973 energy crisis helped UCLA professors William Van Vorst and Al Ullman convince the U.S. Postal Service to fund the development of a mail delivery truck powered by liquid hydrogen. According to Van Vorst, the curtain in the truck's back window was supplied by a student researcher's girlfriend after she complained about being able to see the hydrogen tanks stored in the back. View Slideshow Politicians in the United States may be touting hydrogen-powered cars as the vehicles of the future, but a group of former students from the University of California at Los Angeles knows better. The group did modify an AMC Gremlin to run on hydrogen back in the early 1970s, after all. The yellow hatchback was the group's entry in the 1972 Urban Vehicle Design Competition, a one-time event that brought together 64 North American universities in a contest to see who could build the most innovative vehicle. Over the preceding two years, the UCLA team had painstakingly replaced the Gremlin's engine with a Boss 351 engine from Ford that had been modified to burn hydrogen instead of gasoline. In the rear of the hatchback, they installed tanks to hold the hydrogen gas under high pressure. Then, for safety, they created some of the world's first low-speed bumpers by packing popcorn into the front and back of the car. The result was a vehicle that didn't need a single drop of gasoline and that emitted nothing but steam. "Ours was the only vehicle in the competition where you could drink the exhaust and eat the bumper," said project leader Frank Lynch, who now owns Colorado-based Hydrogen Components. Lynch, a self-described "hot-rodder" who liked to work on cars when he was younger, launched the project in 1970. The college junior posted a mimeograph on a UCLA bulletin board, asking fellow students to join him in building a hydrogen-powered vehicle. He got several responses, but finding a faculty sponsor for the project was not easy. "Professors tend to be busy, and a lot of people were a little leery of hydrogen at the time," said UCLA professor William Van Vorst, now retired, who joined the project soon after the design competition in 1972. Though researchers had experimented with hydrogen-combustion engines as early as 1820, the Hindenburg disaster in 1937 had tempered enthusiasm for the gas, especially in situations where the risk for accidents was high, said Van Vorst. "The idea that you could run a modern car on hydrogen was considered pretty far out," said Van Vorst. "Frank (Lynch) was pretty remarkable in that he had the idea." Lynch did manage to find a faculty sponsor, however, in engineering professor Albert Bush (who died in 1976). Together with students Joe Finegold, Ned Baker and several others, the group set out to collect the parts they would need to build a hydrogen-powered car. American Motors donated the Gremlin to the project. Ford provided a powerful Boss 351 engine, the same kind used in limited-edition Mustangs at the time. Other parts came from a multitude of vendors and manufacturers, thanks mainly to Finegold's finesse, said Lynch. "If I was the chairman, then Finegold was like the vice chairman of the activity," said Lynch. "He was such a sweet-talker. He went to Barris (Kustom Industries) out in the Valley and got us a roll cage that came through the roof of the car and became a luggage rack." From auto parts manufacturers Hooker and Edelbrock came various specialty engine components. From a division of Union Carbide came a tanker full of hydrogen gas for fuel. Impco, a company that specializes in alternative fuel products, donated parts for managing the hydrogen fuel. "Impco gave us anything we wanted, basically," said Lynch. "We wandered in there in the fall of 1970 and wandered out with a big box full of hydrogen parts." Within two years, the team was testing their hydrogen-powered Gremlin on a chassis dynamometer -- a sort of treadmill for cars. Though the tests showed that the car could only travel 110 kilometers before it needed to be refueled, they also revealed that the car emitted slightly cleaner air than it took in. In other words, driving the car actually reversed pollution. Armed with results like these, the team was ready to face the competition at a General Motors proving ground in Michigan. It was August 1972. The entries in the Urban Vehicle Design Competition included cars powered by everything from hydrogen and propane to ammonia -- and the team soon realized that theirs wasn't the best car in every category. "In style, we got beat out by a natural-gas car by the University of British Columbia," said Lynch. "That car was absolutely customized, from the ground up." When it came to speed, the UCLA team got beat again. "There was a Mopar hot rod that ran on propane and kicked everybody's butt in the drag race," said Lynch. But when it came to emissions, the judges noted the benefit of having a car that not only expelled nothing but steam, but also removed a slight amount of pollution from the air. They awarded the car the prize for low emissions. And when the raw score for the entire contest was calculated, the team realized they had also won the overall competition. For Lynch, the victory was more than a chance to revel in the success of his project -- it was the beginning of a career. After the competition, a small group of engineers approached him to talk about a potential startup opportunity developing hydrogen fuel products. "I got job offers because of that competition," said Lynch. "I took a career from it. So in a sense, I'm still trying to finish my senior project." Lynch has since started his own business, Hydrogen Components, which develops hydrogen-related products and technologies. The company's clients have included the Army, the Chicago Transit Authority and Ford, among others, and it recently sold several patents for a new type of fuel that mixes hydrogen and natural gas, according to Lynch. The company has also worked on projects for NASA. In one case, the staff researched ways to pull hydrogen out of rocks on the moon, said Lynch. In theory, the hydrogen had been deposited there by solar winds and, if harnessed, could be used by astronauts as an energy source. Though the project never got much further than the research phase, the space agency is again looking at ways to fuel a moon base now that President Bush has announced his vision for sending humans back to the moon and onward to Mars. As for the Gremlin, the car stayed at UCLA and received quite a bit of attention from auto manufacturers and government agencies when, in 1973, an oil embargo imposed by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries led to an energy crisis in the United States. Over the next several months, the Gremlin received a number of upgrades, paid for by the Department of Transportation. Van Vorst and fellow professor Al Ullman even convinced the U.S. Postal Service to fund the development of a second alternative vehicle -- a Jeep mail truck that used liquid rather than gaseous hydrogen. But the crisis soon ended, and interest in alternative-fuel vehicles waned. Funding for the Jeep ran out before it was completed. The project team disbanded and the Gremlin sat unused. Finally, in 1984, UCLA sold the Gremlin to Harrah's Automobile Museum in Reno for $1. After the Harrah's hotel and casino was renovated in 1989, much of the collection was sold to private collectors. A spokeswoman for the National Automobile Museum, the nonprofit that now runs the museum, said the Gremlin was likely sold during that transition, though neither she nor another museum employee could remember having ever heard of the car. Today, with oil at a record $48 per barrel, and with fears of global warming on the rise, America is again looking at hydrogen as an energy source. Both President Bush and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have announced initiatives to boost research in the growing field of hydrogen fuel cells. Though the new technology is far different from the combustion engine that powered the Gremlin, Van Vorst said he believes the projects at UCLA opened the door. "There isn't a direct line between the Gremlin and today's prototypes, but we showed that you could run a car on hydrogen in a practical sense," he said. "It may take another 15 to 20 years before hydrogen really takes off, but at least we know it can be done." There has been some heated debate especially by La Rouche v.s. Gore on global waming being a hoax, but whether or not, I found an article explaining how gas emmissions causes cancer in humans....the article is coming up..meanwhile here's Neil Young talking about cars... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neil-youn ... 45077.html

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quote] There has been some debate i.e. by La Rouche v.s. Gore on global waming being a hoax, but whether or not, I found an article explaining how gas emmissions causes cancer in humans....the article is coming up..meanwhile here's Neil Young talking about cars... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neil-youn ... 45077.html[/quote]Here's some articles on cancer causing car fuels ....How carcinogenic is your CAR? | Analysis | Down To Earth magazineCars cause cancer. Scientists can even measure the cancer potency levels of ... If only particulate emissions are compared from different car models then ...http://www.downtoearth.org.in/cover.asp ... 1&sec_id=7 - 32k - Cached - Similar pages[PDF] The Truth About Auto EmissionsFile Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTMLThe Truth About Auto Emissions. May 2005. Electric Auto Association (EAA) ... cause cancer and others can irritate mucous membranes. Ozone (O ...http://www.eaaev.org/Flyers/eaaflyer-autoemissions.pdf - Similar pages

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East Coast Ice Storm....http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/ar ... P_WXiTE1Yw