Three Cheers For Mizzou!

Oh crap. I just threw up in my mouth a little typing that title. Tough for a KU man to say anything nice about Mizzou. I'll just keep repeating "Paige Arena" and laughing to myself. There, I feel better already! The University of Missouri isn't waiting around for Governor Blunt and his ethanol-fixated cronies to recognize that moonshine didn't do much for the state economy 100 years ago and it sure as hell isn't going to help much this time around once the federal subsidies get yanked. The Department of Energy has announced $11.2m in grants for hydrogen research. Only 13 projects were approved this year and MU is part of the elite. Mizzou's scientists will be studying "Networks of Boron-Doped Carbon Nanopores for Low-Pressure Reversible Hydrogen Storage." Uhhh, yeah. Basically they will be working on hydrogen storage in a solid material to alleviate the problem of current hydrogen storage solutions which involve compressing the gas to 10,000 PSI and hoping not to spring a leak. This is big news. This is the kind of thing that should be on the front page of the paper. Getting one of these grants is far more difficult than signing the latest high school basketball phenom out of Detroit. So once again, congrats to Mizzou and I'm looking forward to being the first kid on my block to have a Boron-Doped Carbon Nanospore thingamajig.