The Truth about Hydrogen

The narrator is Irish, right?

I think that's an Irish accent.

The ideas around replacing combustion engines are phenomenally complex because every good idea isn't quite as good as it at first seems to be. Yes, hydrogen sounds awesome, but it's not quite as awesome as it might be because there is no free lunch.

In the end everything we do changes our world.

The above video goes through the math of the two major ways that electric cars can be powered: fuel cells (powered via compressed hydrogen) or batteries (powered via plug-in electricity at home or on the road).

12 Texas preschoolers hurt in blast from color-changing fire experiment gone wrong

Source: KHOU.com

Stop. Using. Methanol.

From The Washington Post...

The teacher mixed boric acid with methanol, Foster said, and tried to light it on fire. Nothing happened, so the teacher added more alcohol and lit the mixture again. Then there was an explosion.

It's so frickin' simple, just stop using methanol.

Even the ACS knows it.

One Town, Four Elements: Ytterby

According to the Ohio educators' Code of Conduct (7b), I'm not allowed to accept any gift from a vendors exceeding $25. That means I'm going to have to get creative in finding a way to get somebody to pay for my field trip to Ytterby, Sweden.

How frickin' cool is that? A single village in Sweden that has four elements named for it?!?!

Radioactive Boy Scout - How Teen David Hahn Built a Nuclear Reactor

In case this needs to be said, don't build a nuclear reactor in your backyard.

Even in the shed.

That's dumb.

There's a semi-well-known book about this story, but I've never read it.

I'm glad this guy wasn't anywhere near where I lived.