NOTES: 2009 - NO NEW COAL PLANTS STARTED IN US. OIL and GAS wars have been going on since we started using the stuff. Some commercial, some military. Will there be an oil war against hydrogen? New fuel cell industry review to be published. Fuel Cell Markets - five hundred focused enquiries per month! Horizon Fuel Cell - home hydrogen fueling stations.
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: El Paso, Texas - 32 electric charging stations. Build it and they will convert? Yarga YoYo transport pod! California projects 33,000 electrics by 2011 to 1.6 million by 2020. Horizon - personal hydrogen fueling stations by 2011? Gullwing Electric Supercar! Vision Industries and Capacity announce ZETT fuel cell terminal tractor. 10 years of transport predictions - all wrong! Mercedes Hydrogen Hybrid. Fuel cell four wheeler cycles! 'Quark'. Detroit auto show - lots of foreign electric and hybrid. US companies - large, slightly improved gas guzzlers - is Detroit still toast due to stupidity?
2. Hydrogen Technology: Reinventing carbon dioxide? First Energy - CARBON CAPTURE - it works! EEStor - is it real or not? Horizon - hydrogen generators for home use - by 2011. Horizon - hydrogen generators for home use - by 2011. W.L. Gore - improved MEA!
3. Hydrogen Business: Japan accounts for 70% of EV/HEV/FCV patent applications. Growing new market in short haul terminal trucks and tractors. Powered by fuel cells and surge batteries they can cleanly and silently move cargo into and out of ports. Bad year for bio-fuel, all the plants shutting down without a $1.00/gallon government subsidy. Obama - $2.3 billion for clean-tech manufacturing jobs. Carbon footprint labeling - are you ready for it? Power to the people - distributed power production makes better sense. When will renewable energy companies overtake the established (fossil fuel) ones?
4. Government Support to Hydrogen: Government puts another $65 million into hydrogen research. http://www.breathingearth.net/ is a real time simulation that displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world. White House going a deeper shade of Green! California - 244 proposals for 70 gigawatts of solar and wind! Solar up 13 fold! Department of Labor - definition for Fuel Cell Engineer and Fuel Cell Technician. Carbon credits as payment for legal fees - Florida! Baseline study of US lakes - 56% good -EPA.
5. Global Warming and Oil Depletion: End of the Permian Age (285 million years ago). Large meteor broke the crust of the Earth. Volcanoes spewed lava and CO2 and the earth warmed 5 degrees. Then the oceans warmed and evaporated methane clathrates which released methane and warmed the earth an additional five degrees. 99 percent of all species died over a period of 85,000 years. Proof that global warming can do us in if we don't stop it! The Carbon Bathtub? Use of potentially harmful chemicals kept secret under law? Harnessing world's collective intelligence to deal with climate change - MIT! Greenland melt - ice down - seas up - rapidly! NGLs - the oil is gone - refine the junk!
6. AHASVC Certificate: Are we ready to publish first level?
7. HySolGenics: Developing 20 kW electrolyzer.
