NOTES: This month we will keep the info flow constrained and discuss the key questions. New solar breakthrough, dispersed silicon nanowires in a polymer matrix, which can turn 85% of incident sunlight photons into electrons and capture them. It’s flexible and costs one quarter of chip silicon to make!! This could be huge!!
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: Icelandic hydrogen highway! East coast hydrogen highway! M4 English hydrogen highway! Eco-marathon hydrogen car race! Evaro-ZOOM! Riversimple hydrogen fuel cell car in 2012! HONDA - home solar hydrogen power station!
DISCUSSION QUESTION: What form will the first popular hydrogen transport take?
2. Hydrogen Technology: Hydrogen space cannon to orbit! Fuel cell exoskeleton! Hydrogen-powered floating cruise ship! Nano bubble storage. Sunlight catalyst 60% efficient. Superconducting hydrogen!
DISCUSSION QUESTION: What is the most important hydrogen technology?
3. Hydrogen Business: How much PV is actually installed in Germany? Chinese solar giants! VIBE for energy information! Low-carbon construction skills - crucial! Vairex - large fuel cell blower production order! 6 GW of geothermal in 2009! Fuel cell market $14 billion by 2014! Micro-inverters! Linde fuel cell forklifts - happening!
DISCUSSION QUESTION: Where does hydrogen business begin?
4. Government Support to Hydrogen: 10 gigawatts of wind installed in 2009! German model for building hydrogen infrastructure. White house to kill $38 billion of fossil tax breaks!
DISCUSSION QUESTION: What is the most important thing for governments to be doing to help hydrogen?
5. Global Warming and Oil Depletion: Oil and gas well completions fell 37% last year! US imported 63% of oil in 2009! Natural gas supply rosy - AGA. BILL GATES funds climate hacking research! UK to hit peak oil by 2015.
DISCUSSION QUESTION: What is the worst global warming gas and how do we diminish it?
6. AHASVC Certificate: Are we ready to publish first level? AHASVC - Google AdSense coming soon to the web site!
7. HySolGenics: Control system report. Roy Kaylor to talk about his CHP endeavor.
