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Hydrogen, everyone has heard of it. It is the first element on the periodic table of elements, our chemistry teaches blew up balloons filled with it and we know that when you combine two atoms of hydrogen with one atom of oxygen you get water. But what else can you do with Hydrogen? How about power your car with it.

My friend Greg Hughes posted about BMW testing their first 7-series hybrid car that runs on hydrogen or gasoline. With gas prices on the rise and consumers clamoring for more efficient vehicles that won't sacrifice the performance we have grown accustomed to, alternative power sources for vehicles has been a hot topic for the past few years. This has led to advances in battery technology for hybrid gas/electric vehicles such as the Toyota Prius. A favorite alternative of mine is vehicles that run on alcohol, partially because of friends of mine that raced alcohol powered go-karts, but I digress. GM has been leading the push for a technology they call FlexFuel, which is a blend of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline.

But what about hydrogen, where does it fit into this picture. Although, not as popular as electric cars or ethanol hybrids, there is a strong force behind the user of hydrogen for fuel simple because of the ease of creating it. Unlike ethanol, which requires vegetable waste (mainly corn) to produce or electric hybrids which store the energy from gas vehicles that is normally wasted, hydrogen can be produced for almost no cost from the most abundant substance on earth, water using solar or wind energy. There companies working to produce kits to convert your strictly gasoline burning car, truck or SUV to be a hybrid vehicle that can burn either gasoline or hydrogen. This is really cool stuff. United Nuclear is advertising a kit that allows your vehicle to run on hydrogen, and when the computer senses that the hydrogen is running out it switches back to running on gasoline. Tell me thats not cool!

One catch that United Nuclear does bring up is about the combustibility of hydrogen compared to gasoline may damage engines running greater than 9.5:1 compression ratios, e.g. turbocharged, supercharged or high performance naturally aspirated engines.

How many times has this happened to you? You have just sat down to a wonderful meal of top sirloin, garlic mashed potatoes and a fresh Caesar salad when the phone rings. You think to yourself, "maybe that is Matt calling about season passes at the mountain, I should get that." "Hello? Good evening Mr. <butchers last name because he can't speak English>, I'm calling to inform you of a wonderful oppurtunity...blah blah blah" AHHHHHHH! Why do they always call during dinner. Why? Because they know you're home.

No matter how quickly you get them off the phone, there is no taking back the aggravation they have caused you by interrupting your dinner and quality personal time with your friends/family. But, there is no reason you can't have a little fun with them.

Behold the Telemarketer counter-script. As soon as the person on the other end of the line asks you to purchse whatever wonderful time saving, life enhancing, sex enriching product they are selling, just start with this script and you will have them running for a Taco Bell application in no time!

While surfing the internet this fine Saturday morning I found a link to this site over at LifeHacker.com. Says-It.com has a Official Seal Generator. You can enter in text for the top and bottom of the seal, select your border, color scheme and choose from dozens of images for the center of your seal. The possibilities are almost limitless! If there is something missing from the site you would like to see, contact them and they will try to accommodate you. There is even an option to order the seal as a magnet or sticker. Here's one I created just now.