NOTES: New AHA chapter forming in LA. Electrification of the automobile. Electric - mild hybrid electric - deep hybrid electric - fuel cell hybrid - pure fuel cell. All will be produced after 2010. Only problem is that lithium is concentrated in a few countries, mostly unstable and unfriendly. Are we trading an OPEC oil monopoly for a lithium monopoly?
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. Hydrogen Transportation: The Chevy Volt battery weighs 400 pounds (180 kg) and holds the equivalent of one gallon of gas energy. One kilogram of Hydrogen = one gallon of gas. If you could densely store the hydrogen and run it through a fuel cell then the vehicle could go thousands of miles on one charge. Class 8 hydrogen semi trucks! London double deckers go hydrogen. Burbank fuel cell bus! Commonwealth Games hydrogen station! Lotus Esprit hybrid! Hydrogen boat drive trains! Fly Jatropha oil! Expensive battery cars a hard sell in credit short times? Ballard - 20 fuel cell buses. Ford - all vehicles to be electrified. Hydrogen and electric from Toyota. All companies are trying to figure out what the public will actually want to buy? Continental flies algae based bio fuel! New jet pack. Kawasaki ZX-10 hydrogen motorcycle!
2. Hydrogen Technology: Alkaline fuel cell membranes - China. Omnivorous fuel cells! Hunterdon hydrogen home! Ethanol path to low cost hydrogen. 3mm X 3mm fuel cell. Hydronal hydrogen fuel! Centralized alternative energy cannot sustain the energy intensive society we now have, let alone the projected future growth - Australian study. Local CHP is the only way to the future. Wind-solar-hydrogen the big three of the future. Bug enzyme generates hydrogen from water! 2008 US Government progress report. Methane from landfills to nanocarbon and hydrogen!!!!!!! Wind-solar-hydrogen the big three of the future. VC says US losing green race! Hydrogen escaping Earth!
3. Hydrogen Business: Cummins Westport - 260 NG/H2 bus engines. Shimshone Gottesfeld, CellEra - no platinum fuel cell! New Delhi hydrogen station. ITM Power - 6 months to certified production. Fuel cell council - $1.2 billion for 25,000 fuel cell jobs. Fuel cell companies delisting as public market is so low! Efficiency could drop energy demand by 2020!
4. Government Support to Hydrogen: Tokyo Big Site - 2009 Fuel Cell Expo. Ohio Space Institute - $310k hydrogen fueling station? Masdar City - want hydrogen partners. NHA - Mar 30 - Columbia SC. WSED - Feb 25-27 - Austria. Obama - "Time has come to build a 21st Century Economy" . Training the wind power work force! Renewable Energy World Conference March 10-12, Las Vegas. California Hydrogen Highway station bids!
5. Global Warming and Oil Depletion: Air pollutant levels fall across UK. Oil up-down-up to $200 per barrel by 2010? Can kangaroo burgers save the planet? Cows make lots of methane. Kangaroos utilize different digestive bugs and don't release methane. Ancient water table is the only future for Australia. Soot largest warming component! US won't meet biofuels mandate! GEOTHERMAL energy could power all nations. Bore a vertical tunnel down to hot rocks - push down nitrogen - heated nitrogen runs turbines - cycle good for thousands of years - can be done anywhere on land, even under buildings!!! Climate warming means food shortages! Nuke power 25 to 30 cents per kW-hr.
6. Outline for AHASVC Certificate: Round up. Are we ready to post first certificate? Clyde to present review.
7. Demonstration or Video: IER electrolyzer initial test data review!
