NOTES: Roy McAlister national AHA president-trip on schedule for Saturday 29 September. His presentation will be from 2:30 to 3.00 until 5 pm at Stanford. The Stanford green tech group is co-sponsering and will reserve a venue. This coming meeting we need volunteers to do all the things required to make the presentation a success. 20,000 and 50,000 the first significant numbers for fuel cell production runs. See technology.
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: Several electric car companies are promising roadworthy battery passenger cars at affordable prices by 2009.
Tesla: Sports car and sedan.
Phoenix Motorcar: SUV.
Meyers Motors: 3 wheel personal transport.
Wrightspeed: sports car.
ZAP: sports car and sedan.
Commuter Cars Corp: small sedan.
Zenn Motor: small three door with the EEstor ultracap battery, which is claimed to be twice as powerful per pound as Li-ion.
2. Government Support for Hydrogen: To be announced.
3. Hydrogen Technology: Astris Energy of Florida and Austria now has a contract with the country of Indonesia for alkaline fuel cells. They are to build a US pilot factory to produce 20,000 units of 2.5 kW fuel cell systems for remote house power. Additionally they have a follow on contract to build a factory in Indonesia to produce 50,000 - 5 kW systems for small business. The systems will run on reformed hydrogen.
4. Hydrogen Business: To be announced.
5. Global Warming and Oil Depletion: The International Energy Agency, which projects energy availability for 26 industrial countries, is finally reading the reality of the ASPO curves. They are now projecting world peak for oil and gas in 2012. National Petroleum Council, founded by President Harry Truman in 1946, study conducted on world wide oil prospects now projects supply to fall short of demand within 25 years. Biofuel, nuclear, and high prices to fill the gap. Fact that more and more oil is being nationalized will leave the US short much sooner. Matthew Simmons.
6. Video: To be announced.
