NOTES: Latest study shows that producing ethanol from corn actually increases CO2 emissions. Estimate of $7 trillion to be spent on clean energy technologies by 2030. Mother Earth News reprints story from 1974 - Roger Billings - sounds just like today.
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: HYBT market $30 bil X 730% by 2015. Icelands H2 ship whale cruise! H2 powered hypersonic airliner. Micro glass H2 storage from Israel. Screen printed solar cells-Germany. Aptera Typ-1 super slick three wheeler. Honda circle FC motorcycle. 1,700 Diesel-electric buses ordered, easy to modify to H2-electric. GM and Honda join fuel cell car market battle. Tesla motors ships production units. French Billionaire to make L-I car batteries.
2. Government Support for Hydrogen: Israel- plan to change all in country transport to electric by 2010. Solar H2 blimp. Blackouts cause scramble for alt energy - SA. Abu Dhabi to spend $15 Bil on H2 future. FC expo 2008 and PV expo 2008. DOE-FutureGen is dead! San Francisco - Life after oil committee!
3. Hydrogen Technology: For sale Horizon 1 kW PEM fuel cell stack! Nanopower windows! THERMO-electric capability in silicon. AL-GA alloys for H2 energy storage. Titania electrode for direct sunlight + water to hydrogen production. H2 pipeline testing facility at NIST. H2 from waste at Welch Foods. Engineered E Coli boosts H2 production 140%. Fuel cell governed by water level. New nano valve gas storage method. One step electrochemical H2 production. Limnia claims improved storage. Production rates way up for PEM plates.
4. Hydrogen Business: Model demos water clothes. Xyenrgy H2 restaurant, Boulder CO. Lack of trained workers stalls PV and FC.
5. Global Warming and Oil Depletion: Greenland thaw biggest in fifty years! China's longest river lowest in 142 years! Amazon deforestation surging again- for ranching and fuel crops. Climate change to hit health above economy. Get out your mosquito nets. Water shortage and population growth = conflict! Himalaya glaciers melting jeopardizing rivers on which 1.3 billion people depend! Oil price volatile. Deep off shore wind to create 200,000 jobs in Britain as 7,000 turbines are installed to meet greenhouse goals. $ 20 billion of renewable energy business in US. Ocean hydrocarbons made from rocks? Big oil in big trouble due to lack of future supply. Enter the Athropocene age - humans have now altered half of the land surface of the planet!!! What do families spend on food for a week? From $375 US to $1.23 Darfur!!
6. Outline for AHASVC Certificate: Proposed outline for AHASVC certificate: discussion.
7. Demonstration and Video: Illustrations and discussion of 20 kW PEM electrolyser.
