NOTES: ASPO was right! World oil will peak in 2010 and start a decline at about 2% per year and the latest understanding is that natural gas, which was thought to peak about ten years after oil will peak at nearly the same time. The world has not made any real effort to move to the single fuel that has the mass, the availability, the efficiency, and the distribution to substitute for oil and gas -HYDROGEN! Letter to President Obama to explain the necessity of HYDROGEN!
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: Chrysler hybrid electrics start production! Student fuel cell motorcycle! Liquid H2 V6 RT20-hydrogen powered sport noise. Fuel cell tractor! VW & Toshiba to develop electric car-an LCD TV with wheels? Wiesmann-speciality sports cars-potential for hydrogen. TU-155 Russian hydrogen powered aircraft. Picture round up of many H2 car concepts! Hydrogen-fueled Gypsy Zeppelin! Russian H2 road show! Skylon hydrogen space plane. Runway to orbit with new engines!
2. Hydrogen Technology: Hydrogen switch for nano-electronics. Fully integrated stand alone renewable energy system based on energy storage in the form of hydrogen. The HYDROGEN FLYWHEEL! GRAHPENE- a new form of carbon with the potential for vast hydrogen storage. Nuclear Reactor Test for hydrogen production-in Oregon! Minimal energy hydrogen production-Penn State U. Cobalt and phosphorus- new catalyst for fuel cells-MIT. Enzyme cocktail for H2 production at 90F-ORNL. 41.1 % efficient solar cells-Fraunhofer Institute-Germany. Aluminum cluster geometry determines H2 splitting-Penn State! Wind-H2 complete system demo. 10% by weight H2 hydride. Nano honeycomb H2 purification. CO2 made into fuel!!!
3. Hydrogen Business: Will alternative energy go to batteries or to H2? CA H2 business Council.Wind-H2 systems. Ohio state H2 test center. Most new capacity by wind and solar. World fuel cell industry survey. Utility scale solar-slowed but not stopped by economic crisis. England-fuel cells to replace water heaters. Dutch fuel cell buses! Road side assistance-H2 vehicle. Qualified workers- energy efficiency and renewable energy-great shortage in next five years. Gen Physics - $16M for LNG, LCNG, H2 stations.
4. Government Support to Hydrogen: Concept of National feed in rate guaranteed so that all new forms of electricity generation could compete for a stable market price. How about a national feed in rate for Hydrogen so that all forms of hydrogen production can compete on a level playing field!! NREL hi eff home. Ulster-h2 safety postgrad program. Fuel cells need H2! DOT-final rule on transport of fuel cells. DOE H2 progress annual report. US Fuel Cell council-path to H2. Santa Clara-H2 poet Laureate! 50-80 $B to fit eastern grid for renewables! Early fuel cell markets? H2 Standards advance! U of D solar hydrogen course. H2 Town -Japan. One solar hydrogen Valley can fuel the country? CA H2 stations? UND National H2 Center to expand. NHA 09!
5. Global Warming and Oil Depletion: Oil price and economic collapse! Is $40-$50 per barrel what the global economy can support? Rising sea levels threaten east coast! Climate Scientists released from federal gag order. Too late to halt some global warming effects!! Global warming could suffocate the sea! Global warming by the numbers!! Fish moving north and south from tropics. Carbon Dioxide to 392 ppm in December. Global economic slowdown not slowing greenhouse gases!! Landslide prediction map! Spring two earlier! ASPO and IEA-2010 is the peak year for oil and gas-depletion here we come!!! Can you find six Saudi Arabias by 2030? GW worse than predicted. CO2 at 392 ppm.
6. Outline for AHASVC Certificate: Round up. Are we ready to post first certificate? Last contributions need to be turned in.
7. Demonstration or Video: IER electrolyzer full demonstration. Watch the H2 and O2 bubble to the top!!
