NOTES: Lovelock's latest book - The Vanishing Face of Gaia - will human population reduce from seven billion down to one billion in a greenhouse world, or can HYDROGEN save the future? Hydrogen and electricity from flowing sea water? Can renewable energy get to 40% by 2050? Forget the fact that oil will be totally gone by then. THERE IS NO CHOICE!! Chu guru of new energy economy?
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: Would you believe the first hydrogen car was driven in 1813!! Skylon hydrogen air and oxygen aircraft-landing strip to orbit and back!! Governor loves the Ronn Scorpion heavy hydrogen boost hydrogen supercar!! MB testing Citaro fuel cell long bus! Deep Prius up to 2009 - Is Toyota placing a bet on gas prices resurging this year? Shanghai - hydrogen powered moped. Renault-Nissan go to only electric, no hydrogen. Yamaha's FC-dii hydrogen motorbike. Hydrogen Highway for Hawaii? Venice, Italy - hydrogen water buses! Australia hydrogen engine! HHO burning with gasoline produces nitric acid and hydrogen cyanide gas?? Fuel cell powered ultralights in EU.
2. Hydrogen Technology: High-performance fuel catalyst for reformer - Tokyo Gas. Hydrogen internal combustion - way ahead of gasoline! Bluegrass - roadside cuttings for hydrogen and electricity. 3D network nanostructure holds lots of hydrogen. Poo into hydrogen!! Asemblon Hydrnol - is it worth it? Ammonia borane - nano hydrogen storage. Back to the moon for hydrogen. Bandgap shifting for titanium dioxide for improved solar cells. Hydrogen engine up to 42% thermal efficiency. Micro-bio whiskers for hydrogen producing bacteria! Cobalt metal + phosphate with sunlight produce oxygen and platinum produces hydrogen, so low cost solar cells producing hydrogen and oxygen. Carbon nitride nano form produces hydrogen from water in sunlight. Aluminum clusters for hydrogen production.
3. Hydrogen Business: EPRI - New York hydrogen market! Clean tech - solar and wind made $75.8 B in 2008. Geothermal up 20% in 2008. Clean air - PG&E. Green tech jobs! US wind up 8,300 megawatts in 2008. First Solar - breakthrough in manufacturing costs? Lithium hydride batteries - set to explode!! Solar panels now being produced for under $1.00 per Watt!! NREL helping New Orleans go green!
4. Government Support to Hydrogen: ARB - bad mouth between hydrogen and battery advocates is dumb! NFPA2 - hydrogen standard draft released! Cap and Trade will finally redress the subsidy balance between fossil fuels and alternatives. HVDC underground power lines - better than overhead? UK - double fleet efficiency by 2020. Iraq looks to solar to rebuild economy!! NHA conference. Future of Green Business is in US!! Swedish city uses biofuels to become carbon neutral. Plant one million Trees for Life in Peru! Maldives vows to be first carbon neutral nation!!
5. Global Warming and Oil Depletion: Global warming - bye bye monsoons. Global water crisis! Oil at peak! Coal gone in one hundred years? Biofuel - a net loss? Even GA recognizes oil production peak. Arctic summer ice gone by 2013? Drought increases CO2 emissions! Greenhouse gas changes weather - Roy McAlister. World faces last chance to avoid fatal warming - EU. Coal protests - plants closing early! Renewable energy cannot sustain energy intensive society? CO2 in atmosphere rising more rapidly than ever!!! Skeptics gather to discuss global warming - fewer and fewer! Meeting to avert global water crisis!! Shell Corp backs out of alternatives??? Mexican oil production down 9.2% in 2008. Climate tipping point near - EU, World Bank!!
6. Outline for AHASVC Certificate: Certificate design.
7. Discussion of Eagle Bonds as way to raise clean tech money!!
8. Draft Letter to the President: Review of draft letter to the President explaining why hydrogen fuel is the only and ultimate answer to maintain a powered society on this planet.
DRAFT – Letter to the President
Dear President Obama,
As the recovery and stimulus plan begins to change the energy landscape you need to take a hard look at the future energy system. It must have six characteristics.
- It must have sufficient mass to replace all the coal and oil and natural gas that is being utilized today as well as projected demand for the future..
- It must be producible by many paths all over the world and not be subject to monopoly.
- It must be scalable so the distributed generation and use can be utilized as well as centralized production and transport.
- It must be benign, not producing harmful by products such as atomic waste or greenhouse gases or air pollution of any kind.
- It must be endlessly recyclable so that future generations can utilize it as well as the current occupants of the planet.
- It must be endlessly storable so that natural energy can be captured and stored for stormy times.
THE ONLY ENERGY FORM THAT MEETS ALL THESE CRITERIA IS HYDROGEN.
Hydrogen must be “produced”, freed from its hydrided natural forms on the Earth, but hydrogen is in every plant, every animal and every drop of water on the planet. The Department of Energy recognizes one hundred and thirty four routes to significant hydrogen production, all of which have the potential to be low cost, so that hydrogen can be produced all over the planet. It can be stored endlessly (AHA has a tank filled in 1914) and its use either combusted, burned, catalytically converted or utilized in a fuel cell results in only water vapor exhaust. As long as the sun shines, the citizens of these
United States
and all the people of the planet can run their civilization on HYDROGEN.
John Gotthold - President of the Silicon Valley Chapter of the American Hydrogen Association and all the members of this grass roots voluntary organization, who endlessly work to build a true future of sustainable prospe
