Really? All you have to do as a developer to get a variance for a taller building is to put in a fancy public toilet? This city is too beholden to builders...

Poop machine? More like a private place for Heroin Joe to shoot up and nod off, just like the previous ones were.

That's not expensive, and this city desparately needs public toilets. Making things and installing them costs money.

@1: It's a quid pro quo - exchange a variance for a public amenity. Greg Smith gets another 10' on his building, which makes it pencil out and not remain an empty lot for another decade, and the city gets a neighborhood with less piss and shit in the street. I would call that a good thing.

Huh. One of the three links in that Gothamist story says, "One of the suspects then went upstairs where a 40-year old woman slammed the door on his arm, making him drop his gun, CBS 2′s Don Champion reported. That’s when police said a 10-year-old boy picked up the gun and fired one round."

Just in case that insertion of an adult turns out to be a lie for political purposes, all you ten-and-ups (9-and-ups if you believe one of the other links) are reminded that you have the good-guy power.

Hyundai Motor delivers first 15 hydrogen-powered ix35 Fuel Cell vehicles in Europe

http://www.automotiveworld.com/news-rele…

Building a Hydrogen refueling station in 48 Hours (Copenhagen)

http://youtu.be/kjGaNGhz1pE

@2, These aren't the same ones that Seattle infamously wasted money on up on Capitol Hill, but the better designed Portland version that don't give complete privacy as anyone walking by can see your feet. Cops can immediately tell if there is more than one person in there and get an idea of what they're up to.
They aren't the nicest places to pee or poop, but soooo much better than an alley or doorway where too many drunks (hobos and fratboys alike) choose to use. The city should put a few of these around town with or without developer money.

@6: Top five reasons why the hydrogen economy will not pan out:
1. HYDROGEN IS NOT A FUEL SUPPLY
2. HIBRODEN IS NOP A FEUL SPPLUY
3. HARGOBLEM LD NIY E VULL ZUBLY
4. MIDROHEM SI WOB DA FEWL ESPLAY
5. GYDROHEM NIZ TON A FWELL PUSPLY

#8

Yeah, it is, and General Electric thinks so too:

The Artificial Leaf
http://focusforwardfilms.com/contest/100…

@8: It has become painfully obvious that Bailo simply does not know what "fuel" is. He seems to have it confused with "energy" or "power."

I view Bailo in the same vein as sgt. doom and fairly.unbalanced. They just post the same exact shit over and over regardless of topic or reality. It is like a child has been let loose in the mall with a megaphone, and is just screaming into it to hear its own voice.

#10

All fuel is based on H bonds.

H2 cuts out the middleman. Carbon.

So H2 is the Superfuel!

@11

All fuel is based on H bonds.

I tried to explain that to the US Navy, but for some reason they keep sticking completely useless Uranium-235 into their big boat motors.

Indian law doesn’t allow the naming of rape victims without permission from the individual or family members.

The only positive thing I've read about India in months.

@8 Don't tell the sun that!

@14, that was pretty good.

If ONLY all of us were having a conversation about nuclear fusion instead of a kind of battery.

I vote for "Giraffe butt pillow."

@11: <screams internally>
That is the worst understanding of chemistry I've ever heard.