NOTES: Ionic compressor - two cylinders, one pump, 20,000 psi! NHA meeting a big success!! Non-hydro renewables up 17% over 2007. China to become world leader in electrification of autos! 9,000 portable units shipped in 2007. Everest expedition carries climate warning! Calgary - 100% renewable by 2012!! Pentagon hard after alternative energy, MOVE, SHOOT, COMMUNICATE - all takes energy.
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: EV charging infrastructure - northeast. 46 retail hydrogen stations in California by 2014. Mazda leasing Rotary hydrogen hybrid minivan. Cheap coal to gasoline process - bye-bye planet! Mercedes fuel cell ultra light roadster. More buses, more fork lifts, more utility vehicles - all fuel cell powered. Royal Mail -mini mini fuel cell van. Two wheel car - Segway and GM!! First fuel cell medium truck, for ports. Federal funds moving from hydrogen to battery. More fuel cell UAVs. Spain fuel cell vehicles.
2. Hydrogen Technology: New green solar hydrogen home - South Carolina. Solar to oxygen and hydrogen - Weizmann Institute. Purdue - new hydride thermal exchanger - five minute fill for a car! Hydrogen filled comets - Tunguska blast, 1908. Empire State Building - green fuel cell retrofit. Five liters of water per day. New iron catalyst replaces platinum. Viruses print green batteries - MIT.
3. Hydrogen Business: Kitson & Partners to build first solar city in Florida. 9 gigawatts of geothermal under development. Going green for cost efficiency!! Hydrogen facility at Yeager airport. Toshiba to mass produce methanol fuel cell for portable market in May 2009. Green groups buy emissions permits to retire them!! SFO to install hydrogen station. Nestle Waters to power warehouse with Air Products fueling hydrogen tech. Front Gate properties to build net zero homes.
4. Government Support to Hydrogen: Germany to become the first major renewable energy economy, total by 2050. All labs cooking as stimulus money becomes available. Zero Regio - hydrogen fueling station project. Energy efficiency could save Britain 6.4 billion pounds in one year. National biomethane summit. Students hydrogen house. Eastern states raise $117 million in carbon auction. Federal focus shifts to electric battery drive as sooner option than fuel cells.
5. Global Warming and Oil Depletion: Ethanol caused 15% higher food prices. Ozone may over recover in some areas, under recover in others. EU - earth warming faster than predictions. Oil finding resurgence and collapse range $40 - $60. Satellite - land degrading faster than expected! Ice bridge cracking. Depletion of prey fish starving the oceans! US Government - climate paper. Rain forests pump winds world wide. Energy - world doomed by coal!
Iowa
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6. Outline for AHASVC Certificate: Draft the Certificate for posting.
7. Draft Letter to the President: Send revised letter to the President.
8. Presentation: Demo of IER full electrolyzer system!
DRAFT – Letter to the President
Dear President Obama,
As the recovery and stimulus plan begins to change the energy landscape, we need to take a hard look at the future energy system. It must have six characteristics.
- It must have sufficient energy equivalent 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 in many ways 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 radioactive 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 use as needed.
THE ONLY ENERGY FORM THAT MEETS ALL THESE CRITERIA IS HYDROGEN.
Hydrogen must be "produced" , freed from its chemically bound natural forms on the earth. 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 methods for 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 indefinitely (AHA has a tank filled in 1914 which is still at full pressure). Hydrogen, whether 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 prosperity without pollution and without Global Warming.
