NOTES: Roy McAlister (national AHA president) trip postponed until September or October as the AHASVC chapter has to do some more work to support the presentation venues. Tom Dickerman is heading the organization committee. He will try to get support from the Ecology groups at San Francisco State and in Marin. The SVC chapter will support only the Stanford area presentation. The new California "source to use" carbon ratings will rank all fuels for carbon release. One ranked can taxes on the carbon be far behind?
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: GM has the vehicle of the future in the Chevy Volt. 20 mile battery range and four kilograms of hydrogen through an efficient fuel cell that delivers 300 mile range. In production by 2010? TESLA has just raised an additional $41 million for their passenger version battery car.
2. Government Support for Hydrogen: IPCC - Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change report details methods for greenhouse mitigation and has workable answers, the primary one being energy use efficiency. We will review the highlights of the report. California - new carbon rating for all fuels.
3. Hydrogen Technology: Video of HYFISH - neat fuel cell flyer. 1,035 companies now listed in FUEL CELL 2000's FUEL CELL directory. We will review the listings. New lightweight storage material is available from Carnegie Mellon Univeristy.
4. Hydrogen Business: Hydrogenics still losing money. Industry consolidation ongoing.
5. Global Warming and Oil Depletion: Lovelock, Guru of the Gaia Theory - latest book shows how our waste of fossil carbon has already committed the EARTH to rapid heating and socially disruptive weather changes. His take is that the only way to maintain the current population is to switch electric power production to nuclear fission short term and fusion further out. He doesn't care about oil depletion as oil can be made from coal on a massive scale. The real problem is destroying more than half of the biodiversity of nature to grow enough food to feed 6.5 billion people. The path to Soylent Green is becoming visible. The antarctic oceans are losing the ability to absorb carbon dioxide!
6. Video: To be announced.
