NOTES: Hydrogen cars still need better storage and cheaper fuel cells but are workable now, just expensive. A whole lot is beginning to happen. 2010 should be the year in history when hydrogen fuel cells start to change the world! 100 kWh solar and wind electricity to auto batteries to ground = 69 kWh. 100 kWh to hydrogen to auto to ground = 23 kWh. This is the simple reason why Dr. Chu wanted to drop fuel cell funding for autos. Hybrid motorcycles - because riders are too lazy to learn how to ride a mechanical bike - twist and go!!

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: Is 2015 the magic year for hydrogen fuel cell autos? All the Japanese fuel companies are teaming with Toyota to have hydrogen pumps all over Japan when the cars are produced in 2015. Toyota will have to utilize nickel metal hydride for the 2012 deep Prius, as no one can produce enough Li-ion batteries. A lake on the Alto Plano in Peru holds half of the lithium on the planet. New gold rush!! Torrance hydrogen fuel station - better talk to the locals before you propose it! Toyota fuel cell SUV tested at 64 mpg equivalent in real world driving. Obama stimulus of $2.4 billion for electric cars. What a windfall, but at least it will get the electric part ironed out, now for the hydrogen fuel cells!! Biofuels to replace jet fuel? Hydrogen street sweeper in Switzerland. Fuel cell buses in Sao Palo. QUESTION: can you produce enough nickel metal hydride batteries for electric car volume? Windmills in the tires of concept car? Hydrogen science yacht! 65,000,000 electric bikes in China - opportunity for fuel cell power? Mercedes B-class fuel cell cars by 2010? Antaries flies on fuel cell only!!! Drivable Dyson ball vacuum cleaner? Biomass burned for electricity will power a car 22 times farther than turning the biomass into ethanol!! Electric and fuel cell port trucks. Intelligent Energy and Suzuki to finally produce fuel cell light motorcycles!! Hydrogenics University home fueler. Reinventing trucks with hydrogen!! Commercial UAV with horizon fuel cell power pack! Hyundai-Kia plans green 4.1 trillion won. New tech greatly extends life of car (lead acid) batteries. 'Clunkers' won't save the world. The entire clunkers program CO₂ savings the equivalent of turning off the country for one hour!! Fuel cells for truck auxiliary power! Single wheel fuel cell motorcycle!! ZERO emissions grand prix! YAMAHA - hybrid to production! NISSAN - fuel cell concept. 2500 charging stations - 1000 new Nissan LEAF vehicles - Arizona going battery green!

2. Hydrogen Technology: Geobacter-hairy microbe makes electricity from mud. Better CO₂ capture method! Water desalinization breakthrough. Can't have hydrogen fuel in volume without clean water! Sub-nano platinum particles to power fuel cells. Onion bulb or light bulb? Energy production always uses water. Will there be enough water to produce the desired energy? Blacklight Power - is it real? Horizon Fuel Cell power packs for sale. New carbon catalyst. Carbon nanotubes doped with nitrogen - better than platinum!!! Iron-based catalysts for fuel cells - Nicola Tesla design enclosed wind turbine 2/3 the size of standard. Methanol fuel cells for soldiers in the field!! ODAKO meter long, single walled, carbon nanotubes. Dual pressure dispenser technology! Ceramic fuel cell catalysts! Intermittency not a problem for wind? Three- component catalyst - super efficiency at hydrogen from water! 53% thermal efficiency gasoline-diesel hybrid engine. New MIT breakthrough for storing solar energy! Horizon fuel cell - new products!!

3. Hydrogen Business: Methanol fuel cells and cartridges finally going into production. 50,000 Indian villages to get methanol fuel cell power!! Hydrogenics terminates APC. Hydrogenics cutting staff to become profitable! BASF high temp fuel cell membrane factory started up in New Jersey . Fuel cell production to start in 2009 by five companies. Proton Motor signed contract manufacturing contract for 5,000 units per year. VCs back in the alternative energy space. Japanese to run on Jatropa oil. PV cost dropping to grid parity and below! ITM Power homes to be carbon negative!

4. Government Support to Hydrogen: US-India renewable energy partnership! US and China on climate change! Interstate Traveler Company - promoting hydrogen highways all over the world. Iran producing fuel cell grade hydrogen! Senate briefing on fuel cell and hydrogen. International hydrogen standards workshop in India! Hydrogen. Going Green 09. India to build hydrogen producing reactor! Navajo nation rejects fossil fuel economy!! $1.3 billion to Michigan battery companies - may not be lasting technology!!

5. Global Warming and Oil Depletion: Glimmers of economic rebound-gasoline back over $3.00 per gallon at the pump. Is that a clue? Shale natural gas has restored US supplies! Energy efficiency could halve greenhouse gases by 2050 - we should be making much greater efforts on efficiency!!Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump dead! Hydrogen needs water! Australia - largest desalinization plant. Algeria - desalinization only way to quench country’s thirst. Water crisis uproots Syrian farmers - Turkey damming all the rivers to keep the water! Fertile Crescent will disappear this century so all our efforts in Iraq will be for naught as nobody will be able to live there!! King Salmon vanishing in Alaska! Portland area consumes electricity at record rate. Wenatchee WA - three continuous weeks over one hundred degrees - within spitting distance of the Canadian border. Arctic Tundra hotter! El Nino causes world to warm faster than predicted in next five years! Warmest June on record for ocean surface! China dust cloud circled globe in thirteen days! Arctic Ocean to be polluted soup by 2070! Comparison of US-China climate efforts - China ahead!! Carbon accounting - currency of the future. Are hydropower, hydrogen and nuclear really clean? ASPO - after oil conference! Ireland wind now 39% of demand!

6. Outline for AHASVC Certificate: LET’S OUTLINE THE FIRST CERTIFICATE!

7. Discussion: Hydrogen tank nitrogen purging.

8. Link List by Topic:

Hydrogen Transport

1. Li-ion batteries - needed for deep and surge - lots of competition!!

http://fuelcell.magasite.net/pages/July_Launch_1_News_2_72109.php

2. Charge your car battery but extend life ten times?

http://www.arizonaenergy.org/News_09/News_Jul09/New%20Technology%20Extends%20Life%20of%20Car%20Batteries.htm

3. Trucking has to get better or the supermarket shelves will get empty!

http://www.rmi2009.org/eslns/transformational-trucking.html

4. Batteries at 150 Watt hours per kilogram in the pack- What a waste to haul an extra six hundred pounds around all the time. A hydrogen fuel cell is much lighter.

http://www.arizonaenergy.org/News_09/News_Aug09/Obama%20Invests%20Record%20$2.4%20Billion%20in%20Electric%20Vehicles,%20Advanced%20Batteries.htm

5. Formula Zero - hydrogen fuel cell racing - champs

http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2009/07/20/470570.html

6. Best part of the hydrogen highway!!

http://www.greenbang.com/hydrogen-fuel-sweeper-to-clean-basels-streets_9472.html

7. ECO windmill car

http://blog.businessflogo.com/rss/hydrogen-electric-hybrid-h-car-integrates-windmills-in-the-wheels/

8. Since hydrogen is the best and only final answer why is it so slow?

http://www.fuelcells.org/info/library/QuestionsandAnswers062404.pdf

9. Are fuel cell motorbikes finally in the near future or is it more smoke and mirrors?

http://fuelcell.magasite.net/pages/July_Launch_1_News_3_80309.php

10. 2500 charging station - lets drive electric!!

http://www.arizonaenergy.org/News_09/News_Aug09/Arizona%20expects%20jolt%20from%20electric%20vehicles.htm

Hydrogen Technology

1. Sub-nano? How low can you go when you do the limbo with fuel cells.

http://www.hydrogencarsnow.com/blog2/index.php/fuel-cells/sub-nano-platinum-particles-power-fuel-cells/

2. More about sub-nano

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2009/July/20070902.asp

3. It takes many small things to make the big one happen,

http://sz0102.ev.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/mail#3

4. Fuel cell catalyst and storage catalyst-equally important

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-08/dnnl-nca080409.php

5. Nano carbon will rule the world!

http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=US222256246920090807

6. Why not do it with hydrogen?

http://www.arizonaenergy.org/News_09/News_Aug09/Biofuels should replace aviation jet fuel says think tank.htm

7. Desalinate lots of water as it only holds 17 kilowatt-hours per gallon of hydrogen.  An M-2 requires six gallons of water per day!

http://www.arizonaenergy.org/News_09/News_Aug09/Researchers%20achieve%20major%20breakthrough%20with%20water%20desalination%20system.htm

8. At last! A fuel cell catalyst that has the potential to be very cheap!!

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16547-carbon-catalyst-could-herald-cutprice-fuel-cells.html?full=true&print=true

Hydrogen Business

1. New Magazine

http://www.rmi2009.org/eslns/potts-introduction.html

https://nc.rmi.org//page.redir?target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rmi2009.org%2Feslns%2Fpotts-introduction.html&srcid=21326&srctid=1&erid=1239014

2. ONION POWER?

http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=519310

3. CARBON NEGATIVE POWER

http://www.hydrogencarsnow.com/blog2/index.php/hydrogen-economy/itm-power-homes-could-be-carbon-negative/

4. GRID PARITY?

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/07/pv-manufacturers-driving-down-costs?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-August5-2009

Hydrogen Funding

[1] http://cleantech.com/news/companies/hydrogenics

[2] http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:HYGS

[3] http://cleantech.com/news/companies/weststart-calstart

[4] http://cleantech.com/news/2386/calstart-starts-up-fuel-cell-bus-projects

[5] http://cleantech.com/news/1443/new-bus-a-milestone-fuel-cell-vehicle

[6] http://cleantech.com/news/1653/ontario-putting-cash-into-cleantech

Government Support to Hydrogen

1. LOTS OF STIMULUS MONEY

http://www.usfcc.com/resources/backissues.html

2. ATOMIC PRODUCED HYDROGEN - Somehow this seems counter intuitive!

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-4849938,prtpage-1.cms

Global Warming and Oil Depletion

1. US vs China -who's doing the most to curb green house gases?

http://www.arizonaenergy.org/News_09/News_Jul09/Comparison%20of%20US,%20China%20climate%20efforts.htm

2. The fertile crescent - the cradle of civilization is going to blow away with the wind

http://www.arizonaenergy.org/News_09/News_Jul09/Fertile%20Crescent%20%27will%20disappear%20this%20century%27.htm

3. Energy production needs water - what water?

http://www.arizonaenergy.org/News_09/News_Jul09/Energy%27s%20Thirst%20For%20Water%20Challenges%20Carbon%20Debate.htm

4. Rivers disappearing from Syria-government stupidity and drought at core

http://www.arizonaenergy.org/News_09/News_Jul09/Water%20crisis%20uproots%20Syrian%20farmers.htm

5. CO₂ capture is a holy grail!

http://www.arizonaenergy.org/News_09/News_Aug09/A%20New%20Method%20To%20Cleaner%20And%20More%20Efficient%20CO2%20Capture.htm

6. Arctic soup-global warming may divert all the ocean currents!

http://www.arizonaenergy.org/News_09/News_Aug09/Arctic%20Ocean%20may%20be%20polluted%20soup%20by%202070.htm

7. California should take a lesson!

http://www.arizonaenergy.org/News_09/News_Aug09/Australia%27s%20biggest%20desalination%20plant%20to%20secure%20water,%20jobs.htm

8. California should take a lesson!!!

http://www.arizonaenergy.org/News_09/News_Aug09/From%20seawater%20to%20drinking%20water;%20Seawater%20desalination%20alleviates%20water%20shortage%20in%20Algeria.htm

9. Sunshine is great on your fanny. Turning as much as possible into  electricity will cool the Earth?

http://www.arizonaenergy.org/News_09/News_Aug09/U.S.%20and%20India%20Renewable%20Energy%20Partnership%20Can%20Ameliorate%20Global%20%27Climate%20Change%27%20Issues.htm

10. Prepare to sweat!