NOTES: Roy McAlister on schedule for SATURDAY, SEPT 29.
Morning presentation: 10:00 AM at the Pacific Energy Center, 831 Howard Street, San Francisco (between 4th and 5th Streets, three blocks from the Powell Street BART Station.
Afternoon presentation: 3:00 PM at the Graduate School of Business, Bishop Auditorium, South Building, 518 Memorial Way, Stanford, California, 94305-5015.
The notices have gone out to all the radio stations, major newspapers, and local TV studios. Envelopes to be stuffed at the meeting for 400 more notifications.
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: ITM Corp in England is promising to display a hydrogen powered fuel cell vehicle with an at home refueling station by the end of 2007. The vehicle is based on a Ford Focus. Vectrix electric scooter for sale in SF. Fuel cell model by the end of the year. Freeway powerful but 60 mile range. There are now 10.5 million alternative fuel cars on the road. Most of them E85 capable.
2. Government Support for Hydrogen: Whistler Winter Olympics. BC transit has ordered 20 fuel cell buses. Built by New Flyer, powered by Ballard fuel cells. Most of the attendees at the 2010 venue will be transported by fuel cell vehicles. House approved new energy bill transfering twenty billion from oil exploration subsidies to alternative energy subsidies and research grants. PUC proposes new rules to encourage power conservation. PG&E can make money by convincing its customers not to use electricity? US Air Force contracting to change all lift trucks and material movers to hydrogen fuel cells.
3. Hydrogen Technology: All-solar home competition between universities. Can a home be one hundred percent solar powered without hydrogen?
4. Hydrogen Business: ORDERS, ORDERS, ORDERS!! For the first time in twenty years there is more news about fuel cell system orders than demos or research grants. We will review the orders acquired by several companies.
5. Global Warming and Oil Depletion: UN report on all the wild weather so far in 2007. Extremes never seen before in many locations and all traceable to Global Warming. TV and radio ads illustrating the effects of Global Warming and citing scientific projections of much worse to come. The torpid state of the body politic hopefully will get disrupted. US Air Force qualifying all aircraft to run on Fischer-Tropsch coal shale derived fuels. A ten dollar rise in the price of oil costs the Air Force $600,000,000 per year. Air Force spent $6.7 billion on fuel last year.
6. Demonstration and Video: Demo of IER (Independent Energy Research) speech display box.
