NOTES: Roy McAlister (national AHA president) -trip now planned for Saturday, 29 September. His presentation will be from 2:30 to 3:00 until 5 pm in the Stanford area. This coming meeting we need volunteers to do all the things required to make the presentation a success. Hybrid Solar Lighting promises 50% efficiency?? Automated fuel cell production line by Altergy! Stuart Island, Washington State - new Solar Hydrogen house. 4th in the country.
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: FORD tops the list this month by delivering a fleet of eight E-450 10 cylinder hydrogen fueled buses to the State of Florida. Toyota has now sold over 1,000,000 Prius hybrids in ten years. Honda hydrogen powered Fireblade? FORD shows a plug in fuel cell hybrid crossover car called Hy-series. It gets 80 mpg equivalent. Brad Pitt drives BMW Hydrogen 7 to Oceans Thirteen premiere. Europe to develop fuel cell powered intercity aircraft. Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State, tries Tesla Roadster. Automatic hydrogen station at Hamburg airport.
2. Government Support for Hydrogen: Russian Green tech fund to have $17 billion. ENERGY OCEAN - Hawaii, Aug 21-23. PV costs to decrease 40% by 2010. SOLAR POWER 2007, Sept 24-27, Long Beach, CA. Lolland Island, UK, wind-electrolysis to provide total energy. Hydrogen Highway from Whistler to Baja, Gov's plan. Toronto, hydrogen village. China, Shanghai, Dongtan - self sustaining ECO-CITY by 2010. Shanghai to build 124 hydrogen stations. Havana, Cuba - hydrogen expo CIER 2007. Canadian Hydrogen Association - Hydrogen Systems document. South Africa and India announce hydrogen plans.
3. Hydrogen Technology: It pays to be horny! New carbon nano-horns hold promise of high density hydrogen storage. Lithium compound , Li4BN3H10, ups hydrogen storage percentage. Virginia Tech - 13 enzymes and sugary carbohydrates make good hydrogen storage compound. Fill your tank with soda pop? Pasta powered fuel cell? Bilkent U-Turkey-Titanium at opposite ends of ethylene molecule creates 12% storage. Fuel cell powered ice resurfacer demoing at rinks across the country.
4. Hydrogen Business: GE and BP with Rio Tinto to develop a full scale sequestered carbon hydrogen refinery under the name Hydrogen Energy. Air Liquide to provide five 700-bar fast fill hydrogen fueling systems to GM. Macy's to power 28 stores with sunlight. Global fuel cell R&D spending and sales to grow to 18.9 billion. ECOtality acquires Fuel Cell Store.
5. Global Warming and Oil Depletion: California says no to coal. Texas is king of coal CO2 emissions. Global warming now gets more press than oil depletion. ASPO oil curve peaks at 2011. 2.45 gigawatts of wind power added in 2006.
6. Video: To be announced.
