ETHANOL ETHANOL ETHANOL- The bums are going to burn all the whiskey makings in the new gasoline additive. BioWillie, the new soy diesel from the country legend. The Ethanol industry is booming and corporate stocks are going up against a down market. We get to burn all our biomass and top soil along with it. Where is the Solar Hydrogen to go along with the deep hybrids?
1. 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 min.
2. Speaker: Tom Driscoll of CAL CARS will give us a presentation at 10:30 on the present and future of the deep hybrid automobile. A deep hybrid has a hydrogen or alcohol or gasoline engine generator for long distance running coupled with a deep, at-home rechargeable battery pack sufficient for all local driving. On E85, five hundred miles per gallon of gasoline is a realistic goal. Yeah! Tom will bring a deep hybrid demo vehicle!!!.
3. Technology update: United Nuclear- Update on CPSC trying to ban any chemical that can be utilized to create an explosion. Home Land Security running amuck. Hydrogen could be regarded as an explosive too. Any fuel can be exploded. Hydrogen production from swine manure! Mike Strizki of East Amwell NJ, building a solar hydrogen home. Electricity generated by chocolate!!! Micro hydrogen sensors. Hydrogen production under visible light with new photocatalyst!!! Band aid fuel cell!!! A123 Systems has new Li-ion battery five times more power dense than prior technology- 300 mile electric car???
4. Government Support for Hydrogen: Al Gore, ex-Vice President, new nationwide released documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. How the greenhouse effect may cause runaway global warming in a little as ten years. Over fifty hydrogen refueling stations now functioning in US- National Hydrogen Association.Fifteen hydrogen stations to cover all of Iceland.
5. Global Warming Effects: Beware how you substitute for oil. Ethanol, Biodiesel eat into US corn stockpiles!! Global food supply near breaking point!! Wind up 40% in 2005!! Solar to install 10 gigawatts in ten years, with potential to increase efficiency to 30%. Oil must be displaced properly or we will be in worse trouble than now.
6. Hydrogen Business: Can Hydrogen be done at a profit??? Corporate reports: Hydrogenics, Distributed Energy Systems, Dynetek, Plug Power. Big Oil limiting gasoline supply in California??
Video: The Solar Hydrogen Economy- Harry Braun 20 min. if time allows.
