NOTES: Diesel bus a $1.62 per mile - hydrogen fuel cell bus at $51.66 per mile. Oil to hit $125 in 2008, $150 by 2009 -T. Boone Pickens! Known oil, gas, and coal reserves may already contain a quarter more carbon than mankind can emit and still avoid dangerous climate change. Value of more exploration in doubt. Very clearly what is needed is a United Nations global carbon cap treaty that will create a global market for carbon reduction technology.
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: Hydrogen infrastructure: $12,000,000,000 for 12,000 stations across the country or one month of the Iraq / Afghanistan wars. Solar Impulse, a plane to fly around the world non stop with only sunlight for fuel! Morgan - Life Car. Hydrogen maintenance three wheel bike in test by Deutsche Telecom. Hydrogen Brutale 910R, style motorcycle - has nothing to do with hydrogen. Lithium Yaris - do without gas!
2. Government Support for Hydrogen: Private equity funds not yet investing in GreenTech as there is a lack of research and deals do not yet generate sufficient fees. Solar 2008 San Diego, May 3-8, 2008. National Hydrogen Association expo coming up March 30 to April 1. $ 75 for day pass to exhibits. Sunline to upgrade fuel cells from 2 year life to 5 years - goal is 12 years. China to reach 30% renewable by 2050.
3. Hydrogen Technology: QuantumSphere, Inc. now has quantum dots that can improve the surface area of an electrolyzer electrode by 1000 times and up efficiency to 96%. New large scale chemical batteries to store intermittent wind and solar energy. Combining helps - bio waste generates methane, which powers a generator, whose exhaust heats a stove and oven, which causes condensation which generates clean water. AHA TESI. Toshiba nano-battery recharges in one minute. Korea - Ice combined with organic metals can store large volumes of hydrogen, released when it melts. List of all fuel patents!!!
4. Hydrogen Business: Renewables (excluding large hydro) reached 240 gigawatts in 2007, now 5% of global power capacity. Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd (CFCL) is investing euro 12.4 million into a solid oxide fuel cell production plant and on achievement of performance parameters will get an order from Nuon, the Netherlands largest energy company, for 50,000 units. Astris Energy is building a plant and has an order for 50,000 Alkaline fuel cells for Indonesia. This is the level or orders that will get the hydrogen fuel cell industry moving!!! Airbus demonstrates fuel cells in flight. No trivial matter due to pressure and temperature swings. BP to sell alternative energy business, concentrate on oil??? Hydrokinetic - WAVE, TIDE, and CURRENT power being tried all over the world. ENV hydrogen motorcycle - back to England and 2009.
