NOTES: Scorpion – 40 mpg, 600 hp with maximum hydrogen boost. I want one! Three science breakthroughs may make the solar hydrogen economy real!!
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: Only 200 Scorpions to be built in 2009; get your $150k down now! Real business is selling the hydrogen boost generator to trucking companies and other fleets for the mileage improvement. Other end is fuel cell powered wheel chairs in Japan. Navistar - diesel electric hybrid trucks. Dual tail rotor turboprop, very efficient on hydrogen. H2 race car from Australia. Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep - deep hybrids and electrics. Government to bail out auto makers simply because hydrogen electric cars will be built, in the US if there are any auto companies left, or overseas if not!
2. Hydrogen Technology: Australian solar cell to 24.7%. Direct hydrogen gas using InGaN epilayers as working electrodes. Ocean thermal hydrogen. Ohio State University - new solar material achieves almost 100% efficiency - fluorescence and phosphorescence. Seoul, Korea - method to release hydrogen from water requiring 0.1 kwh per cubic meter of H2 as opposed to 4 - 4.5 kwh for standard electrolysis. New Delhi, India - NCL-polybenzimidazole variant at 150 degrees C and 100 times cheaper than Nafion. Hydrogen leaks - they are real. Solar bubbles - cheap, high efficiency solar arrays? Chicago - new reflective coating causes solar panels to absorb 96.2 % of sunlight!! The Netherlands - new material a combination of magnesium, nickel and titanium. Tanks 60% lighter than battery packs! Year 1833 thermo-electric hydrogen production!! Solar-methane-methanol cycle to produce cheap hydrogen?
3. Fuel Cell Business: 10,000 Efoy fuel cells shipped? High pressure natural gas, through a turbo expander generator to a DFC fuel cell, to cogenerate heat. Very efficient gas use. Jofemar - hydrogen powered vending machines!
4. Government Support to Hydrogen: New Apollo Program! World hydrogen energy summit, Istanbul, Turkey, 15-17 July 2010! UK climate bill!! 10 NE states in Dec CO2 auction. RE and EFF to create US$360 billion industry in ten years.
5. Global Warming and Oil Depletion: Fossil fuels out by 2090. Offshore atomic waste shipped into Utah. Carbon trading - big business - $100 B by years end. Methane levels rising. Two planets required in thirty years! Map of world underground water supplies. China to 135 GW wind by 2020. Non OPEC oil total down, starting down the ASPO curve!! Zion nuke plant - no $billions for dismantling. Financial meltdown slowing Greentech projects! $10 per barrel oil in Russia! Solar thermal for hot water - best use? Carbon dioxide already above danger.
6. Outline for AHASVC Certificate: Round up. Are we ready to post first certificate?
7. Demonstration or Video: IER M-2-DEMO development to be shown!!
