NOTES: ELECTRIC, ELECTRIC, ELECTRIC - the good news is that the battery electric cars of today will become the hydrogen fuel cell electric cars of tomorrow. MORE TO COME!!!
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: Battery car of the future THE NISSAN HALF WIDE. I don't think that will go over in the US. Here we need double wide. Vegetable oil Lotus! Automotive X prize - $10 million - over 100 entries. Wolf - electric super car to out-Tesla Tesla. Suzuki Swift - FUEL CELL scooter.
2. Hydrogen Technology: Environmentally friendly rocket fuel! TOYOTA now claims their fuel cells will start at 35 degrees below F (minus 37 C). England's Carbon Trust to provide $8 million to promote the development of lower cost fuel cells. Fuel cells are still 10X too expensive to become mainstream. Human hair solar cell - works great in
Kathmandu
! Glucose hydrogen!!
3. Hydrogen Business: VW in home power market - but running engines on natural gas.
4. Government Support to Hydrogen: France to spend $2.2 billion on nationwide network of charging stations! Global Green Challenge - race across Australia - two classes. Pure solar and everything else - Tesla will be there, but how will they recharge their batteries fast enough? NREL publications list - getting very extensive.
Scotland
and
India
in Green pact.
Britain
to be waste free. Japan trying to roll out hydrogen cars but government bureaucrats getting the way - cost of $1,000,000 per car model to pass tests to sell in
Japan
.
5. Global Warming and Oil Depletion: Current California storm came from a typhoon off of Japan - share the weather!
6. Outline for AHASVC Certificate: Review of posted certificate.
7. Demonstration or Video: The M2 demonstration will be another month as the compressor we had has a front end leak and you really don't want to be filling the box with hydrogen! Major announcement from HySolGenics Inc. by Saturday!!!
8. Link List by Topic:
Hydrogen Transport
1. Suzuki - an additional fuel cell vehicle player?
http://cartopnews.blogspot.com/2009/10/suzuki-sx4-fcv-car-running-with.html
2. On the bus!
http://www.renewableenergyfocus.com/view/4386/canada-takes-delivery-of-first-hydrogen-fuel-cell-bus-for-olympic-fleet/
3. Fueling stations - CA needs personal stations
http://www.renewableenergyfocus.com/view/2935/california-fuel-cell-partnership-sets-out-plan-for-future-hydrogen-infrastructure/
Government Support to Hydrogen
1. Deep coal gasification - a better idea than mining it, and it makes hydrogen too!
http://www.hydrogencarsnow.com/blog2/index.php/hydrogen-production/underground-coal-gasification-could-aid-hydrogen-production/
9. Hydrogen Jobs:
*Regional Sales Manager*
Mitsubishi Electric -
Miami
,
Florida
*Senior Developer*
Renewable Ventures -
San Francisco
,
California
*Salesforce Application Manager*
SunEdison -
Beltsville
,
Maryland
*Junior Software Developer*
SunEdison -
San Francisco
,
California
*Director -
U. S.
Procurement*
Brookfield
Renewable Power -
Marlborough
,
Massachusetts
*Journeyman Electrician*
groSolar -
Raynham
,
Massachusetts
*Manager, Three-Phase Power Conversion*
FirstSolar -
Perrysbrug
,
Ohio
*Professional Engineer*
Borrego Solar -
Lowell
,
Massachusetts
*Master Electrician*
groSolar -
Raynham
,
Massachusetts
*Director of Product Marketing - Utilities* SunEdison -
Beltsville
,
Maryland
*Senior Applications Engineer*
PV Powered, Inc. -
Bend
,
Oregon
*Site Superintendent - Contract / 1099*
Borrego Solar -
San Diego
,
California
*Regional Sales Manager*
Mitsubishi Electric -
Jersey City
,
New Jersey
*Director of Utility Sales*
SunEdison -
Beltsville
,
Maryland
*Engineer -
Professional
PE
*
Borrego Solar -
Lowell
,
Massachusetts
