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I heard a story on the news last night about the Saint Lucie County Sheriff’s Department experimenting with hydrogen powered cars.  There is a locally made unit in Fort Pierce called the Hydro 4000 that can be installed on existing gas powered cars to add hydrogen to the mix to improve gas mileage, emmissions and apparently even horsepower.

The units are reportedly around $1,200 a piece but given the cost of gas these days they could pay for themselves very quickly.  They are rumored to increase gas mileage on cars anywhere up to and above 50%.  Imagine having to fill your tank up half as much.  The only catch is these things need to have distilled water in them to operate but distilled water is four or five times less per gallon than gasoline.  I’m eager to see the results of the sheriff’s experiment and possibly look into getting one of these installed on my own gas guzzler.

Does anyone out there know anything more about these things?  Where you can get them or even have one already that you can tell us about? 

A few weeks ago a story ran about Smokin’ Em charters running a topless charter service out of Fort Pierce City Marina.  Today one of the girls, 30 year old Tiffany, was released today from her ‘day job’ as a biology teacher at Port Saint Lucie Highschool.

Tiffany is a divorced mother of three young children and has recently joined the charter service to make some extra money on the side.  She says she makes about two hundred dollars a day plus tips for going out on the boat to fish and says she won’t go topless.  So why was she fired?

The Saint Lucie County schoolboard isn’t saying.  They are claiming their right to release without a reason and are keeping their mouths shut about it.  A local news station got a hold of Tiffany’s latest review and found that she received marks that meet or exceeds the standard set by the schoolboard. 

More photos of Tiffany here

A few days ago I was just writing about neighboring Saint Lucie Counties push for turning the area into the Research Coast.  They are spending tax payer dollars to help attract biotech researchers and their employees to the Treasure Coast.  The push will help to create additional high paying jobs in our area with trickle down economic effects.

Today Martin County Commissioners preliminarily voted 3-2 to turn the east-west thoroughfare into a bio-tech corridor.  Along the corridor, 35 acres of rural land is slated to become commercial to allow the creation of the Willoughby Research Park.  The park will house office space for businesses looking to take advantage of possible partnerships with larger institutions such as the Scripps Research Institute or Torrey Pines in Saint Lucie County.

The plan isn’t final though, the state Department of Community Affairs still has to approve the project before it can continue.  The state department has shot down previous expansion plans for this stretch of road in the past due to already congested roadways that can not support the additional traffic load.  A group of land owners and developers is offering to pay three million dollars to make improvements to Kanner Highway to help smooth the traffic problems and allow construction to begin.