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Zero Hedge reported on California launching a hydrogen hub infrastructure for hydrogen refueling infrastructure. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/california-launch-hydrogen-hub-expand-zero-emission-technology.  The California government’s official press release on the Hydrogen Hub was released 17 July 2024 at https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/07/17/california-launches-world-leading-hydrogen-hub/. Clean Technica produced an article about the Hydrogen Hub grant program that covers multiple states.

This blog will follow Nikola and Hyla, which are available online at https://www.nikolamotor.com/ and https://www.hyla.co/. Nikola produces the TRE FCEV.

General Motors has a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy and Honda for Hydrogen development. Hyundai has the XCIENT fuel cell truck. Kenworth has the T680. Like the Hyundai the T680 places the fuel tanks behind the driver from floor to ceiling.  The Kenworth is a partnership with Toyota with Toyota producing the fuel cell power plant and Kenworth producing the trucks.  All of these are limited to around 400-450 miles of range, with the exception of one of the XCIENTS which listed 400km, which is 248 miles. Hyundai has a class 8 truck in partnership with a company called Plus, and they claim to be fully autonomous.

Volvo has fuel cell trucks with a range of up to 1000 km.  International Trucks has a hydrogen fuel cell technology designed for routes 300+ miles in testing.  They use the General Motors fuel cell platform, and OneH2 mobile hydrogen production and fueling technology to bring the fuel station to the customer in a manner similar to Hyla.

Mistral Instruct using the above as Local Documents input:

The Hydrogen Hub infrastructure launched by California is an important step towards expanding zero-emission transportation options. With more refueling stations available, it will be easier for consumers to switch to hydrogen-powered vehicles and reduce their carbon footprint. It’s great to see multiple companies working together on developing hydrogen technology, including Nikola, Hyla, General Motors, Honda, Kenworth, Toyota, Volvo, International Trucks, and more. The range of these vehicles varies, but it’s clear that there is a growing interest in producing longer-range hydrogen fuel cell trucks.

Addendum 9/21/24:  Ford has a hydrogen vehicle in the works with an outsourced power train, but it was not included at the time of original writing.

The U.S. Department of Labor shows the states with mandatory lunch breaks and the states with mandatory rest periods.  The national Conference of State Legislatures has a list of which states codified religious and personal belief vaccine exceptions.

This article is to narrow down long a long term settlement plan based upon a critical factor, probably the most important factor.  Some might not think this factor is that important, but since it is encountered day in and day out every working day of every year, it is extremely important.  The factor is whether or not a worker gets breaks at work.  Numerous states do not mandate any kind of break.  Others mandate a lunch period, and others mandate lunch and rest periods.  Some mandate lunch periods only for those under 18.  Ostensibly, the day after one’s 18th birthday is the point at which one no longer needs rest during a workday for those states.

I have worked in Kentucky and Tennessee.  Both of these states have different regulations. Tennessee requires a lunch break, but does not specify rest periods.  Kentucky specifies lunch and rest periods.  In the state of Kentucky, every employer I ever worked for except for one complied with all the provisions.  A single employer hated the idea of rest periods, but such behavior was illegal and that gives people the right to argue against them.  In Tennessee, which has a slightly different framework, I have had had 2 employers which had both lunch and rest breaks, 1 employer that had only a 30-minute lunch break in the center of a ten hour shift, and one employer that had none until complained on severely, and then the complainers got the mandatory lunch break while the non-complainers still received no breaks.

New Hampshire was on my short list, but it mandates only lunch breaks like Tennessee.  That means a distribution center with a senior walking 10 miles a day would have no rest periods and that would be legal and they would have no argument against that treatment.

With n=4, lunch and break stands at 50% for a state that regulates only a lunch period, and greater > 95% in a state that regulates both lunch and breaks.  Part of that may not even relate to any kind of enforcement, but the simple cultural difference that workers should be able to rest for a few minutes during the day and the people growing up under such a culture just expect that it will happen for others.

Illinois, Kentucky, Colorado, and Vermont pass the anti-slavish test.  California also regulates lunch and rest periods, but they and New York have chosen the path of gene-therapy anti-humanism and cannot be considered among the moral states that we consider further.

Of those 4 states continuing, Vermont’s regulation about rest periods is a vague standard of reasonable to protect health and hygiene.  The other three specify minimum time amounts.  So any person who will have to work a full time job in their senior years should live in one of those three, possibly four states.  Frankly, anyone who has to work a full time job at all should live in one of those states.  Maybe a further look at the pragmatic realities related to Vermont’s non-specific standard would make it a quartet of states with respect of workers.

A non passive-incomer’s state of choice to settle in would then be either Illinois, Kentucky, or Colorado, so that they may have some rest breaks during the thousands of days they spend working over the course of their lives.  It’s illegal to work animals with no breaks in the same states you can do it to humans if you are a monied interest.