quicklime

Why is it even OK for any case involving a former president to be tried before any judge that he appointed?

The question now might be whether he appeals to the 11th Circuit Court or straight to the Supreme Court. I fear either way may be too slow to get anywhere before November.

True, but it will all take so long that the case still won't get anywhere before the election. In a way this might even have been the judge's ultimate delay tactic, capping off the slow-walk that she already perpetrated.

I need to correct myself here and get more specific. It's not only about what generates the electricity that powers the hydrogen extraction/isolation. It's true that the current electrical grid is powered by a mix of activities that includes burning a lot of natural gas.

But it's also true that the current cheapest (and therefore by far most common) means of hydrogen production is steam methane reforming, where the source of the hydrogen atoms is natural gas. And the byproducts are some carbon monoxide and dioxide.

In short, achieving truly green hydrogen production would require not just a green energy source but having that source be so inexpensive that it would be cheaper to make the hydrogen by electrolysis of water instead of by reforming methane. I don't know enough to speculate how difficult or likely that will be.

Thanks, that was worth the read.

I'm glad they at least mentioned, for those who read far enough down the article, that ultimately it's powered by burning natural gas elsewhere to charge the hydrogen fuel cells [edit: please see my own response below]. I wasn't sure if the AP had reached that level of ecological transparency/honesty yet so that's good to see.

Someday when California's energy grid is 100% renewable this type of craft will be an amazingly clean way to get around. ... Unfortunately it's not too likely that we will ever see that future before the global economy and most present political structures collapse.

It has been very noticeable -- like should-be-embarrassingly noticeable -- the change from the first week after the debate (where any pundit who mentioned swapping out Biden, regardless of them being in support of that or not, basically always mentioned that Harris would not be a viable/successful alternative) to just the past 2-3 days where suddenly that perspective is forgotten or forbidden. (for-Biden?)

"They hit each other, like fucking Christ intended"

Climate "ambitions", huh. The pressing need to avoid or mitigate the collapse of civilization is merely an "ambition" now...

It's still (moderately) difficult to find a bunch of 6 year olds with guns. But the way things are going, I'm sure that will be remedied before long.

Based on having read this same SFGate article about five days ago, I made an online appointment for a booster shot at a Safeway store's pharmacy, semi local to me in San Francisco. My previous booster was circa last November so it had been more than six months, and the recent news stories about a surge of covid detected in the city's sewer outflows and also a general rising wave of cases locally seemed to give good reason to stay on the six month program rather than wait until it had been a year.

The appointment was easily made online, but the pharmacy telephoned me and told me their advice was to just wait closer to a year unless I was over 65 or immune compromised. Neither applies so I cancelled the shot.

Good for $25 off any elective procedure costing twenty thousand dollars or more!