it is better to look at hydrogen because it is called a hydrogen sell as a storage device or a battery. you are losing some of the energy. the only time you would want to use hydrogen to power the vehicles is when you want to make sure that a vehicle is reliable like a fire truck or an ambulance. and you will get a lot more efficiency. if you are splitting ethane, it does not do a lot of improvement on that either. i know is the end day, it is a little wonky, but people should know that. president olague: any additional public comment? commissioner sugaya: thanks, i really don't care. [laughter] president olague: general public comment is closed and the meeting is adjourned. hey, yo, check out this chef, right? right? that's so gay. that's really gay. dude, look at those pants. please don't say that. what? don't say that something is gay when you mean that something is dumb or stupid. it's insulting. it's like if i thought this pepper shaker was stupid, and i said, "man, this pepper shaker is so 16-year-old boy with a cheesy mustache." just saying. >> i have been a cable car grip for 2

it is better to look at hydrogen because it is called a hydrogen sell as a storage device or a battery. you are losing some of the energy. the only time you would want to use hydrogen to power the vehicles is when you want to make sure that a vehicle is reliable like a fire truck or an ambulance. and you will get a lot more efficiency. if you are splitting ethane, it does not do a lot of improvement on that either. i know is the end day, it is a little wonky, but people should know that. president olague: any additional public comment? commissioner sugaya: thanks, i really don't care. [laughter] president olague: general public comment is closed and the meeting is adjourned. >> good morning, everybody. i thank you for attending this, i wanted to share with you what my supervisor -- and thank you very much for being here. thank you, everybody, for joining on this occasion where i get to reappoint some very valuable citizens of san francisco who are sacrificing some very good personal time. i know what sacrifice and personal time is. i can understand that now. we have six wonderful peopl

it is better to look at hydrogen because it is called a hydrogen sell as a storage device or a battery. you are losing some of the energy. the only time you would want to use hydrogen to power the vehicles is when you want to make sure that a vehicle is reliable like a fire truck or an ambulance. and you will get a lot more efficiency. if you are splitting ethane, it does not do a lot of improvement on that either. i know is the end day, it is a little wonky, but people should know that. president olague: any additional public comment? commissioner sugaya: thanks, i really don't care. [laughter] president olague: general public comment is closed and the meeting is adjourned. --www.ncicap.org-- >> we are ready to begin the meeting. they are very loud today. >> it just fell off. good morning. today is wednesday, february 16, 2011. this is the regular meeting of the building inspection commission. i would like to remind everyone to turn off all electronic devices. at this time we will take roll call. [calls roll] commissioner lee is excused. we have a quorum. the next item on the agenda i

. >>> well, they get 150 miles to the tank and they are powered by hydrogen. showing off the hydro powered buses today. they have replaced diesel based taxis. the buses part of a department of energy project aimed at educating the public about the technology. >> these are buses which are essentially near zero emission. we have to stop putting co2 in the atmosphere. >> there are hydrogen stations around california. scientists say s.f.o. is about to get one and l.a. already has five of them. >>> another project and you've probably seen it. it doesn't get rubbed off or fade away. so how are the lines and logos painted on the ice at the shark tank? ken bastida has tonight's good question. >> reporter: i didn't even know you could paint ice but that's exactly how they put down the lines and logos at the shark tank. >> first question i've got to ask you, what kind of paint sticks to ice? >> it is kind of like the old tempura paint. like in grade school. >> reporter: the same stuff you finger painted with in kindergarten. he has been painting hockey rinks for 37 year

fuel cell cars generate power by a chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen. they emit no carbon dioxide and too expensive for most consumers for the time being mainly because platinum is used in many parts. >>> and now here's the latest market fig yurls. >>> for many in the philippines, public transportation means traveling on a motor bike with a side car. the filipinos call them tricycles. but the vehicles, about 3.5 million in number, are hea for the motor, he uses widely available chinese models. the only work his factory does is assembling the vehicles. garcia's trying to lighten it so the vehicle will drive farther. by widening the door frame and making a thinner roof, he cut down the materials and lowered the tricycle's weight. he uses less fiber, so the body strength hasn't changed. >> very durable. >> reporter: banks keen on investing in new ecofriendly businesses so interest in gars why's tricycles. how long does it take to manufacture the vehicle? >> we can assemble within a week. >> reporter: investors have taken notice. >> i'm sure there are other

orders the soviet union resumed testing its nuclear weapons the world's most powerful hydrogen bomb wasdeveloped in one thousand nine hundred sixty one it was cool. by the scientists it was twenty times as powerful as all the explosives used in world war two put together it was decided to test the bomb you know to win one hundred sixty one but only a tough capacity. we have said we have a one hundred million ton bomb it's true we're not going to set it all the reason is that if we set it off we might also have our windows shattered therefore it's not worth while. because khrushchev was so sure the soviet union possessed the world's most powerful weapon it helped push the world to the brink of catastrophe. he responded to the deployment of u.s. medium range nuclear missiles in turkey ordering similar soviet weapons to be shipped to cuba the news triggered panic in the white house. kim resident kennedy was under strong pressure from his generals and other people in his inner circle the generals who were called for any media the bombing raid he said intra five hundred aircraft would be eno

went at least one of the atmospheric tests with the hydrogen bomb blew up on the launch pad a good part of just now told was left with highly radioactive plutonium debris twenty years later all the agent orange that was all dumped on johnson stored as they say on johnson at all that really over time became a dump site of agent orange and now thirdly we put chemical weapons on johnson at all this national wildlife refuge under the fish and wildlife department has really been used and abused by the military over the ages. for. only a few hours before it was wiped out in austin it was efficient little telling point out that it had made before you what to do in such as shelters the people calmly waited all unaware that already descending upon them was the atom bomb. when it was all over on and off scrambles of head off for a moment but on one blasted to extinction the all shattering devastation in which was born that time again. radiation effects not fantastically imprinted on walls and fun it just like doesn't shadow a lot outlined on a building the design of a dress left on the body of a

. >> and that and hydrogen. hydrogen needs to be coming along at the same time. >> several possibilities. >> all good stuff. >> and as we see good stuff out the window today, speaking of good stuff, we have sunny skies. -- no voice. >> frogs in the throat. >> and warm temperatures coming our way. >> not froggy weather out there today. more like lizard weather as he head toward record high temperatures now. around the bay. upper 60s to low 70s. i will have the details coming up next. >>> and normally, the super bowl is intentionally held in the city, without harsh winter weather. so what's the deal in texas? the snow prevents ticket holders from seeing the big game, and check in on the conditions, coming up next. ,,,, ,,,, ,, california should be proud. we were the first to ban smoking on airplanes. the first to have smoke-free bars and restaurants. all while saving over $86 billion in health care costs... and over a million lives. we've done a good job. but even if you were born today, you'd still grow up in a w

reducing consumption, we have to realize that fueling stations whether it be liquid natural gas, hydrogen, whenever fuels need to be incorporated into, not the city does not envision eliminating all cars. finally, bicycles. they are 80 polluting, healthy alternative to mass transit. this includes but manual and electric cycles. as long as they can proceed safely without endangering pedestrians and be protected from automotive vehicular traffic. these areas are advantageous for cyclists. to protect these people, we should it swap parked cars and bicycle lanes. protecting cyclist from doors opening. we should provide dense and secure parking. we should implement our local air regional bicycle sharing programs that have been investigated for a number of years. they can be a leader in all aspects of cycling. for the city to develop organically, coherently, and comprehensively, all major city developments should leverage one end of her -- one another's leading concepts. >> i would like to open it up for public comment. is kevin still here? he stepped outside? >> i would like to speak a little

two hydrogen buses will be on display in downtown livermore today both operating at the lawrence livermorenal laboratory. the public is welcome to stop by and take a ride. scientists will be on hand to answer questions. there's a prrks rius at a parking lot next to the bank head theater on first street in downtown livermore at 11:00 as well. >>> let's check in with what's going on later "today in the bay." we say good morning to brent cannon. >> i don't have the special tanks, i have the normal stuff. what does brian wilson have in common with charlie sheen? the answer has nothing to do with sheen's extra curricular activities or any of his off-screen problems. we'll tell you why the two met and what they are working on. >>> and the countdown clock is ticking for the final launch of the space shuttle "discovery." that crew has a number of challenges still to overcome. and we'll have a status report for you coming up in just a few minutes. that's as close to cryogenic i get. >> i don't know who started the joke about you being old. >> it is not a joke. >> we just dragged that thing out for

nasa says it's very confident there will be no leaks of hydrogen gas or cracks in the fuel tank. both problems developed during an earlier countdown back in november. the blastoff goes ahead, discovery will travel to the international space station with a crew of six and a humanoid robot. it will be discovery's final and 39th flight. >>> new rules regarding natural gas pipeline could be put in place in california today. the public utilities commission is expected to vote today on requiring utilities to notify authorities when pressures accidentally spike above legal limits but the "chronicle" reports critics complain the proposal doesn't go far enough because it would not require them to report high pressure levels when they are intentional. >>> an unexpected twist in the infamous chowchilla kidnapping case. some of the men responsible for putting the three kidnappers behind bars now want them released. in 1976, fred woods and brothers richard and jim schoenfeld hijacked a madera county school bus with 26 children and then hid those kids in a moving van that they had buried near

discovery was supposed to lift off in november, but fuel tank cracks and hydrogen gas leaks delayed the mission. liftoff is scheduled for february 24. >>> the hero pilot, solly solen berger and his wife filed a lawsuit over a building they bought in 2002. sullenberger is credited with saving a jet liner full of people when he crash landed in new york after a flock of birds flew into the plane's engines. a bank and real estate agent duped them and the $935,000 price they paid was well above market price. >>> no calories, so it doesn't count, right? the new warning about what drinking diet sodas can do to your brain and heart. also, you might call them tablet wars. hewlett-packard unveiled competition for the ipad today. >>> and plague around with the workers a $100,000 fine. . >>> there are new reports that apple has begun production on a new ipad. the report in the post said the new ipad will be out in the fall. the new ipad will be thinner and lighter than the first one with more memory and a faster graphics processor. it will have at least one camera on the front for web conferencing

there are plenty of different ways, you know, nitrogen powered cars and hydrogen powered cars and electricars. we are not putting enough money into that. >> long time lib january ruler momar gadaffi appeared on t.v. to put rumors of him fleeing the country to rest. more on the bloody crackdown rocking that country. >> reporter: long-time lib january lead libian ruler went on t.v. to deny rumors that he had fled the country. they are using aviation assets to attack protestors in the capitol city of tripoli. his son denies there is any bombing in tripoli. according to the libian t.v. his son warned in a t.v. address to the nation sunday night that continued unrest will only result in more bloodshed. >> we will never give up libya. we will fight for the last inch, to the last shot. >> meantime libya's justice minister resigned to protest the use of excessive force against unarmed protestors. >> this is really the beginning of the end of the game for gadaffi. >> u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is condemning the violence saying libya must respect the universal rights of the people. the

wine and pearly wipes are little pads that are moistened whitening ingredients like baking soda and hydrogeneroxide. they get a vote of confidence from a dentist. >> i wouldn't expect to have a big whitening effect but it is a good way to clean your teeth after a meal. >> whitening treatments from a dentist probably are still the most effective but the inexpensive floss and wipes are available online and will hit store shelves soon. >>> the song you're so vain ♪ sydnie sings it better, that song could have been written about at least one bay area city. san francisco has been named the vainest city in the country. that is according to the daily beast. the rankings are based on time spent in the spa, the gym or on personal care products. san francisco spent the most in monthly personal care. it also had the largest percentage of people who are not overweight and go to a gym. rounding out the top 5 are boston, new york, los angeles, that one is not a surprise but this one kind of, hartford, connecticut. >> what do you think, you live in san francisco. >> i do. >> i don't think you're vain. >> i

wine and pearly whites are little pads moistened with whitening ingredients like baking soda and hydrogene. they get a vote of confidence from a dentist. >> i wouldn't expect to have a big whitening effect but it is a good way to clean your teeth after a meal. >> she has good teeth. good model. whitening treatments from a dentist probably are still the most effective. but the inexpensive floss and whites are available online and they are expected to hit store shelves soon. with more health news, here's betty knew when. >>> reporter: a new link between tonsillectomies and weight gain in kids. a study of nearly 800 children found those who have their tonsils out were more likely to become overweight after surgery. researchers say the surgery allows children to consume more calories because they can swallow more easily without pain. more than half million children have tonsillectomies every year. >>> over 5% of people aged 65 and older have at least one brain disorder like senility or dementia. that's according to the agency for healthcare research and quality. seniors age 85 and older were

nasa says it's confident there will be no leaks of hydrogen gas or cracks in the fuel tank.eveloped during an earlier countdown back in november. if the blastoff goes ahead, discovery will travel to the international space station. it will be discovery's 39th flight. >>> you love this story because some of the brightest minds in science witnessed a little bit of history. >> the basketball team at cal tech ended, get this, a 310- game conference losin streak. they beat occidental college by one point tuesday night. the winning point from a computer science major, ryan em quist. >> he will never forget it. >> he is now off to play in the big leagues. big leagues meaning he is becoming a software engineer for google. >> i think that dates back to the reagan era 310 games. >> congratulations to them. >>> let's check the forecast and lawrence, i think we're all excited about the snow. >> yeah. >> mother nature better deliver, though. >> what's interesting, just walking around downtown out for a cup of coffee everybody is talking about it. it's pretty exciting stuff, it doesn't ha

the flight should have taken place months ago, but a last-minute hydrogen gas leakpostponed the launchad space walker also was replaced after he was hurt in a bicycle accident. so far the weather looks good for thursday's liftoff. >>> all right. meantime, we do want to check your forecast today. a little different forecast here than the shuttle liftoff. i'm not going to tease her about the conditions, but maybe some flakes. >> i'll combine the two and do a moonwalk for you this morning. good morning to you. we are talking about low snow levels as of saturday. the system of low pressure, a very cold system packing about as much moisture as that which came through over the weekend. that's what we are expecting as we head through the latter part of thursday. that's when it will arrive, but the cold air arrives late friday into saturday morning. and if we do see the very low snow levels that's when we are expecting them. 33 degrees right now in napa. 31 in santa rosa. temperatures will be cold today. when you take your lunch break, you will need that jacket. by 1:00 p.m., 53 degrees in oak

. >> reporter: before too long, even hydrogen-powered battery cars may become a reality. like the one i drove on the newshour just five years ago. but on the other hand, at the annual detroit auto show while batteries are becoming more efficient, so too are gasoline engines. >> we've improved the fuel economy 30% over the last five years. so the e.v.s are competing with a moving target, if you will. >> reporter: but competing they seem to be. the range of the electric car extending. day by day bit by bit. >> one of the first things we did to reduce drag was to.... >> reporter: this is the wind tunnel in warren, michigan. >> that smoke is going over that grill. >> reporter: normally it would have been going right in there puttg the drag on the car. >> right. >> reporter: how much does that change in the grill save you? >> the change in the grill saves us a third of the mile of total range on the battery. >> reporter: every aerodynamic tweak matters when it comes to getting more miles out of a single battery charge. the dangling rubber air dam. >> as we come around the corn

that launch should have taken place four months ago but a last-minute hydrogen gas leak postponed it.s lead space walker also had to be replaced because he was hurt in a bicycle accident of all things. so far the weather looks pretty good for thursday's liftoff. >>> thieves are finding new ways to steal your credit card information without having to lay their hands on it. security experts say high-tech thieves use an inexpensive device that fits inside an ipad case. it reads the identification chip found in cards that all major credit card companies offer. but credit experts say the public shouldn't worry too much. companies have layers of protections to prevent electronic pickpocketing from becoming widespread. >> there's been no reports that we are aware of where people can trace back that a fraudulent transaction occurred when somebody read the account number off of their contact list card. >> how would you know, though? >> because the banks have a way of tracking those types of transactions. >> credit card companies say consumers are also protected by zero liability policies. you

nasa says it's confident there will be no leaks of hydrogen gas or cracks in the fuel tank.of those problems developed during an earlier countdown back in november. if there are no snags, discovery will travel to the international space station with a crew of six and get this a humanoid robot. liftoff is scheduled for 1:50 p.m. pacific time. >>> facebook rejecting an app that was introduced last week. it's the breakup notifier app designed to send e-mails to people as soon as as soon as friends change their relationship status. msnbc reports the app had more than 3.6 million users and facebook stopped it because it was too popular. >> never heard of them dumping an app because it's so popular. >> there has to be an underlying cause. >>> 6:26 your time. coming up, it's like something out of a hitchcock's "the birds." thousands of seagulls taking over a bay area suburb. where they are coming from we'll tell you where. >> plus, government forces striking back at protestors in libya. what is keeping stranded americans from getting out of that country. >>> and a body found in a b

liquid hydrogen and replenished on the external tank has been terminated, as planned.t-minus one minute and 30 seconds and counting. all systems are go. about 90 seconds away from a launch of space shuttle discovery on her final mission. t-minus 1 minute, 10 seconds and counting. the hydrogen tank is now at the proper flight pressure. t-minus one minute and counting. the three engines are ready to start. the booster joint heaters are being deactivated at this time. t-minus 48 seconds and we are transferring to internal power. coming up on a go for auto sequence start. >> auto sequence start. >> we have a go for the auto sequence start the onboard computers have primary control of the functions. >> 20 seconds. >> the water pressure system has been activated, protecting the discovery and the launch pad from the acoustical energy waves. >> we have main engine start. >> 2, 1 -- the final lift off of discovery, a tribute to the pride of america's space shuttle team. the shuttle has cleared the tower. >> discovery of making one last reached for the stars. -- reach for the st

[applause] and i'm happy to say many of my friends, look, hydrogen matters, biofuels matter, solar matterss, but the truth is in the next 20 years what's going to matter the most is oil, gas, coal and nuclear because they are simply statistically going to remain the bulk of the supply. so we need to move forward on every front, not stop the biggest, most successful fronts while we wait around for a future that may or may not come fast enough. now, in order to have an american energy policy we need to replace the environmental protection agency with a new, fundamentally different environmental solutions agency. [applause] so my friends in the media, i want to emphasize replace so it's not about tear down, destroy, eliminate, walk away, let the environment be destroyed, sell out to corporate interests and all that bologna. this is a different question, and terry maple and i wrote a book outlining the model of green conservativism. the question is could you, in fact, develop a better solution than a washington-based command and control top-down bureaucratic regulatory litigation model? now, i

their mass that the substantial fraction of their volume must be made of the two lightest elements hydrogen and heel lee up gases. not only is kepler-11 telling us about planetary systems of a type that we had no idea existed but right now, it's providing our best clues on the compositions of these planets as individual worlds. if we can move on to my next slide in this is the family portrait, and we see the cousins that were found previously and bill showed you in the earlier slide. on the top two row and the new set of six siblings of the family, the long lost cousins we found and are announcing today around kepler-11 in the bottom row. if we can go to the next slide, i want to wrap up. kepler-11 is a surprisingly flat and compact system of six transiting planets. the five inner planets are especially close together something that we didn't think would happen for worlds of this size, and really forces us to go back and look at formation models of planets and it also means that the planets are perturbing one another significantly enough that we can weigh the planets. we find out that they

lines of what a chair person indicated, the recent attacks or records relating to the purses of hydrogen peroxide or license records, records that we would get automatically with a grand jury subpoena. if we did not have that capability we would be exceptionally limited to the records that we can get and the foundation for the continuation of an investigation where we may want to get a wire intercept. under cut by our inability to get the base records necessary to pursue the investigation. one point i'll make with each of these three provisions is that we have to go and make a showing to the fis accord in order to get the order directing the production of those records to read the second provision, the roaming wiretap provision which enables us when we make a showing that the target of our surveillance is attempting to thwart that surveillance. when we make that showing to the court the court will issue an order allowing us to focus on that individual as opposed to each particular telephone that individual may be using. if we go and make a showing that an intelligence officer from some o

their mass that the substantial fraction of their volume must be made of the two lightest elements, hydrogen and heel lee up gases. not only is kepler-11 telling us about planetary systems of a type that we had no idea existed, but right now, it's providing our best clues on the compositions of these planets as individual worlds. if we can move on to my next slide in this is the family portrait, and we see the cousins that were found previously and bill showed you in the earlier slide. on the top two row and the new set of six siblings of the family, the long lost cousins we found and are announcing today around kepler-11 in the bottom row. if we can go to the next slide, i want to wrap up. kepler-11 is a surprisingly flat and compact system of six transiting planets. the five inner planets are especially close together, something that we didn't think would happen for worlds of this size, and really forces us to go back and look at formation models of planets, and it also means that the planets are perturbing one another significantly enough that we can weigh the planets. we find out that th

[applause] and, i am happy to say to many of my friends, look hydrogen matters, bio-fuel matters, solar, wind matters, but the truth is, in the next twenty years, what is going to matter the most is oil, gas, coal, and nuclear, cause they're simply and statistically going to remain the bulk of the supply. so we need to move forward on every front, not stop the biggest, most successful fronts, while we wait around someday for a better future that may or may not come fast enough for any of us to be either employed or safe. now in order to have an american energy policy, we need to replace the environmental protection agency with a new fundamentally different environmental solutions agency. [applause] for my friends in the media, i would like to emphasize replace. this is not about tear down, destroy, eliminate, walk away, let the environment be destroyed, sell out to corporate interest, and all that bologna. this is a different question. and terry maple and i wrote a book called "a contract with the earth" which outlining the model of a green conservative. the question is could you in fac

people say why should we incentivize solar and hydrogen and biofuels and all these sectors as if we weren't subsidizing the petroleum industry by allowing them to book their royalties or not book their royalties and be charged taxes as though our entire military establishment were deployed around the globe in order to protect those ceilings so that petroleum can get in here for refining. we have to realize we are already subsidizing a sector that is going to be more and more diminished as this 2 isst drentry -- 21 is it century moves forward. either you live in the shell of the past or break out of it and create a whole new independent america. that's where we need to move. mr. garamendi: let me say a couple things. you hit a hot button there. i'm on the house armed servicings committee. how much money do we spend protecting the flow of oil? the department of defense didn't come up with an answer, but rand corporation, one of the consulting firms said, i think we can do that. they came back with a number that's about 15% of the total defense wugget. -- budget. we are talking over $100 billi

lines of what the chair person indicated, the recent attacks, or records relating to the purchase of hydrogen peroxide, or license records, that we would get automatically with the grand jury subpoena. if we did not have that capability, we would be exceptionally limited to the records we could get, and the foundation for the continuation of an investigation where we may want to get a wire intercept would be undercut our ability to get the base records necessary to pursue the investigation. we have to go and make a showing to the court in order to get the order. the second provision is the roving wiretaps provision which enables us when we make a showing that the target of our surveillance is attempting to thwart that surveillance. when we make that showing to the court, and the court will issue an order allowing us to focus on that individual as opposed to each particular telephone that individual may be using. if we go and make a showing that an intelligence officer from some other country is changing his telephone and #daily or weekly, rather than having to go back to the court every time

consequently this law has been hydrogened -- hijacked by certain groups who use it to sue and recover judgments. for example, there are 14 environmental groups that have recovered $37 million by filing 1,200 lawsuits for which they have recovered judgments and even legal fees under settlements with the federal government thereby fueling the fire of suing the federal government over sometimes procedural issues. there's a group at virginia tech university who through the foia law, the freedom of information act, has uncovered how many abuses there are of this law and how many unintended consequences there are to the use of this law by certain groups. we need to have a six-month moratorium on expenditures and payouts so we can get information about who is receiving this money, what the lawyers are being paid per hour, and who is it going to. how many environmental groups are actually paying for their organization by routinely suing the federal government to stop certain activities on federal land? this is taxpayer money that's being used for this purpose. and in light of my colleagues on

this multidisciplinary project combines hydrogen a logical epidemiological and mechanistic research to determine if any of these chemicals are associate with the risk of preterm birth. they're also testing a new remediation strategy using solar energy to break that tce and groundwater. at the university of washington center is using genetically engineered to break down organic chemicals and the university of kentucky center has pioneered a new type of nano particle filters that remove tce from water. in conclusion it's important to remember that determine risk from chemical exposures through drinking water or through any other exposure is a complicated enterprise. new data are telling us to look beyond chemical concentrations in water or air, and instead look at the chemical concentrations inside our bodies. we also need to consider the timing of exposure. our individual genetic accessibility and the fact that our exposures are always to a mixture of chemical. at niehs we are proud to provide the best possible science in support of the incredibly difficult task at our sister register a