Mr. Sasquatch Himself paid us a visit!

I was just going through some pictures and found all these from Sasquatch Fest. last year and thought I should post them. You can see The Presidents, Blue Scholars, and Death Cab in these photos.

Quick Hightlights on current happenings

#1 - My work is tight on money and has put all managers on 50% paycuts and the rest of us have taken a 30% cut in pay.

#2 - Life seems to happen all at work right now.

#3 - Within the next month we plan to have our reactor producing 1 liter of hydrogen every minute. This amount of h2 will allow us to run our converted Wankel Rotary Remote Control engine, we will also be running a fuel cell that will power a laptop.

#4 - We have found new homes for both of our cats (Claire and Mittens)

#5 - I always thought cats did their own thing and didn't need attention, boy was I wrong!

#6 - The weather this winter appears to get stuck in long patters. Earlier this winter (actually fall) we were in a benign pattern of sunbreaks with a passing shower, then we had an extended period of cold and snow and now it appears that we have entered a morning fog possible afternoon fog that could last until February.

#7 - I have had a new car since September (2008 Mazda 3 GT) and have already put 8,000 miles on it.

#8 - I bought this new car after my 1994 acura integra was stolen from the parking lot at the Little Si trailhead. The car was found a month later in the parking lot of a Target in woodinville. The car had been driven straight from North Bend to Woodinville and had all the electronics ripped out and about 10 bottles of Bud Light that had not been consumed behind the passenger seat.

#9 - Guitar Hero - guitar hero is a fun game, but the drums are extremely hard to learn for someone who is used to playing drums by ear, and not by looks for different colors to indicate when a drum pad should be struck.

#10 - Nick Johnson - I think it is time that Nick got a job, there are fun jobs out there that do not involve playing baseball. I have nothing against Nick, I just think he would actually find enjoyment in a job and getting to know a group of good people that he works with.

#11 - the "Snow" video - There is a very messed up video of a girl riding around on a 4 wheel mobility scooter thingy.

#12 - I don't feel like doing a number 12, nothing against it, most would rather skip 13 and do a number 12.

#13 - I just realized that by writing something for number 12 I actually did write something for number 12. SHIT!

#14 - I am tired of Snoqualmie Parkway being backed up for 20 minutes because of 202 being washed out by floods. I have posted a notice of the blockade that is currently in place between snoqualmie ridge and lake alice. If this blockade were to be removed we could drastically relieve congestion on the parkway until 202 repairs are completed.

#15 - My bell pepper plants that I have wintered inside my house for the last few minutes appear to be throwing in the towel and finally eating the big goatse. To date I have purchased 3,000 ladybugs to eat the aphids, 99.99% have died, but there are still a few in the house. Fruit flys from the plant are now the problem.

#16 - I think I will add more to this blog later tonight, when I have something in my tummy, stomach, crap factory.

#17 - I think I am now officially lactose intolerent

H2 to the Max.

I feel like it would be a wise decision after reading Alex p's blog to write down some of my own life experiences. For the last few years I have been working for a company in Redmond designing and building hydrogen reactors. Depending on the design it can take many weeks (sometimes months) to prototype a reactor, then build and finally test. I will never go into very much detail about what our fuel is or what the reactor design is but feel that it is fine to be fairly vague. For the last week I have been working on installing a reactor that we hoped to have fairly decent conversion (conversion being our fuel releases hydrogen, which is monitored with a custom made $7000 hydrogen detector). A couple of our Chemical Engineers did some number crunching and figured we could see possibly 30% conversion, but this would be the best case scenario and seemed a little out of reach. The average reactor gives us around 2-5% conversion, which is respectable for the size of the company and the time we have been working on this project. Earlier this afternoon we decided to fire up the reactor and see what we could get, 5 minutes into the run we were producing 73% hydrogen by volume and were bubbling like crazy in our beaker out the outlet of our reactor. I left work around 3:40pm for a dental appointment and when I was finished I called work to see what the results were of the latest tests... We were running continuous fuel through our reactor and generating 51% hydrogen. I also heard that as the fuel was being depleted of hydrogen that the percentage would start to drop (exactly what it should do, as the fuel re-enters the system it has less fuel and therefore has less reactivity). I spoke with the 2 people that were running it and they also informed me that as they added new fuel the percentage would then increase again.
One of the highlights of today was when we hit 73%. It feels so nice after putting in so many long hours and hard work to see it start to pay off, and that we could possibly reshape how people look at fuels and how people think about how we power this world. After we finished running the reactor we stuck a piece of paper with the number 70% writen on it on the window of our conference room. Our CEO, CTO and other mangement were having a meeting and I heard the CEO yell, 70%!!!! Never knew a percentage could sound so sweet.