The Daily Populous

Friday October 13rd, 2017 day edition

image for Toyota’s hydrogen fuel cell trucks are now moving goods around the Port of LA

The truck will move goods from select Port of LA and Long Beach terminals to surrounding rail yards and warehouses for distribution.

Toyota estimates the vehicle’s daily trips will total around 200 miles — short, frequent route patterns designed to test the duty-cycle capabilities of the fuel cell system.

Toyota unveiled its plan to build a fleet of heavy-duty, zero-emission, hydrogen fuel cell trucks last April.

The concept truck generates more than 670 horsepower and 1,325 pound-feet of torque from two Mirai fuel cell stacks and a 12kWh battery.

That said, hydrogen hasn’t taken off as a propulsion technology due to severe shortage in fueling stations.

Toyota has said it plans to sell buses powered by hydrogen fuel cells in Tokyo this year, in time for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Nikola Motor Company recently unveiled a huge class 8 truck that's powered by hydrogen fuel cells. »

Paul Ryan says mental health reform is "critical ingredient" in stopping mass shootings

Authored by cbsnews.com

In the wake of the Las Vegas shooting, Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday that mental health reform is crucial to ensuring that mass shootings are prevented in the future.

Republicans, Ryan noted, spent years working on mental health reform, passing a bill proposed by Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pennsylvania, last year that was signed into law by President Obama.

"That's why the House of Representatives passed landmark mental health reform just a year ago. »

Canada passes law to protect whistleblowers and journalists’ confidential sources

Authored by openparliament.ca

That was when Senator Claude Carignan decided to draft a bill that would protect journalistic sources so that journalists would never again be prevented from doing their jobs properly.

First and foremost, it protects not journalists themselves but journalistic sources, the whistleblowers who uncover wrongdoing and want to tell a journalist about it.

One of the key components of this exercise is based on the source, and that is why we want to protect sources. »

The USA is taking on Japan in a giant robot duel you can watch next Tuesday

Authored by theverge.com

We’ve been waiting a long time to see the “world’s first giant robot duel,” and next week we’ll finally get to watch the metal-on-metal action.

Well, next Tuesday, October 17th at 7PM PT, the duel will finally be streamed on Twitch for all to see.

The duel was held in an abandoned steel mill in Japan, with no spectators beyond the two sets of engineers. »

Italian fashion house Gucci to go fur-free in 2018, says CEO

Authored by theguardian.com

Gucci will go fur-free next year and auction off all its remaining animal fur items, the Italian fashion house’s president and CEO Marco Bizzarri has announced.

The changes will come into force with the brand’s spring-summer 2018 collection, Bizzarri said during a talk at the London College of Fashion.

As part of the change a charity auction of the fashion house’s remaining animal fur items will be held, with the proceeds going to the animal rights organisations Humane Society International and LAV. »