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January 2008

AGENDA for SATURDAY,
JANUARY 19, 2008

NOTES:  Has the battery breakthrough finally occurred? New Lithium-ion electrode material stores ten times as much electricity as any previous electrode, with full I/O. All the hydrogen we need approaches Milky Way in giant hydrogen cloud!! Neutral hydrogen is the foundation of dark matter? Microscopic holes on the surface of LEDs multiply light given off. Congress pulls plug on incandesents. GREEN TECH INVESTMENT - California's $1.79 BILLION is half of US TOTAL.

Greetings and Introductions: Chapter President, John Gotthold, greets all attendees and asks each attendee to state their name and a short synopsis of their background and what they hope to learn by attending the meeting. 10 minutes.

1. Transportation: CA hydrogen highway suffering cancellations of stations. State working to reinvigorate players. French compressed air car to take off in India. Cadillic Provoq fuel cell luxury car. $2500 TATA "NANO" small four passenger car. Zoyte mini-SUV affordable full speed EV. Solar grid electric buses in Adelaide, Australia. Fuel cell Segway. Inside the Chevy fuel cell VOLT.

2. Government Support for Hydrogen: Renewable - France to 20% by 2020, Germany at 14%, Investment up 1/3 to $117B. Stranded wind and ammonia to power Iowa. Solar cell production up 50% to 3.8 gigawatts. . Wind power to every Britsish home by 2020. Rochester, N.Y. to be first green city. World's largest H2 power plant in UAE.

3. Hydrogen Technology: CR5 Sunlight to fuel converter - breaks CO2 apart into CO and H2, then turns them into biofuel. System could be utilized to turn CO2 from coal plants into renewable liquid biofuel. Ten times silicon Li-ion electrode from Stanford. Japan, 200 nm thick flexible battery!! H2 storage-lithium amide (LiNH2) + lithium borohydride + magnesium hydride in 2-1-1 ratio stores ~14% and releases at 150 deg C. Nanoporous materials increasing hydrogen storage. The solar tree-Vienna, Austria, saving 100k per year. Nitrogen doped graphene. Perfect single crystal III-V nanostructures can capture 30% of solar energy, twice today's efficiency. 42.8% - claimed as world most efficient solar cell, 50% is goal. Wow! We may save this planet yet! Switch grass can produce almost as much ethanol as corn per acre, on marginal land. Hydrogen powered cell phones.

4. Hydrogen Business: ReliOn ships a million watts of fuel cells.

5. Global Warming and Oil Depletion: Oil at $100/barrel. Rice on the rise. Iran stops selling oil for dollars, cuts off natural gas to Turkey. Was 2008 tipping point at which renewable energy moved from demo abstractions to part of major industry? EU to ban unsustainable biofuels. Forget oil - the new global crisis is food!!!

6. Outline for AHASVC Certificate: Proposed outline for AHASVC certificate: discussion.

7. Demonstration and Video: Illustrations and discussion of hydrogen fuel injector spark plug and compact 20 kilowatt compressor concepts. FUEL CELL MAGAZINE.

  

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