NOTES: The meeting at Peninsula Conservation Center will run from 10 to 10:30-11:00. At that time we will organize for the trip to the new electric car company, Alternative Energy Motor Corporation, at 23482 Foley Street, Suite E, Hayward, CA 94545 and continue the meeting there. I will drive and can take four passengers. At least one more car needs to follow. Volunteers please! We expect to return at 2 pm and be back in Palo Alto before three. Here is the Google Maps link to directions.
TOPIC for the start of the meeting: Questionnaire from AHA headquarters - what should AHA do for the future? Lots of questions. We can continue to discuss it on the drive over to Hayward.
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: High school students produce hydrogen ICE vehicle. Honda hydrogen charging station produces 0.5 kg in eight hours. Capillary storage may become the storage method. Floating hydrogen air ships. Hawaii hydrogen pipeline. Public workshop on hydrogen fuel specs.
2. Hydrogen Technology: Magnesium nano particles. MIT virus templated catalyst. Polymer nano structures to improve proton passage, without water. Sand powered fuel cells. Blade-less wind turbines. Molybdenum-oxo (PY5Me2M0-OXO) catalyst - can dissociate dirty or sea water 100 times better than Platinum. Pokeberry in solar production. Electricity produced by mud. New metamaterial for more efficient solar cells.
3. Hydrogen Business: ITM Power Plc to enter US hydrogen markets with electrolyzers. Air Products fueling Wegmans warehouse operations. Fuel Cell Energy gets $100,000 grant.
4. Government Support to Hydrogen: EPA finalizes greenhouse gas inventory! DOD leads in clean energy. They are the biggest fuel user in the US. NHA hydrogen conference and expo May 3 - 6. Lots of new players. ARPA-E $106 million in future projects. Student hydrogen design contest. Europe 100% new energy by 2010. Pentagon focused on developing alternative fuel.
5. Global Warming and Oil Depletion: Earth's missing heat? Gotcha. Global temps highest for March. Whatever happened to the ozone hole? Renewables up to 11% of US Energy. Fossil fuels will be around for a long time to come.
6. AHASVC: Discuss AHA goals for next twenty years!!!
7. HySolGenics: Breakthrough!! The balancer system works!! Correction!! Let's hope the fifth try works!!
