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Hydrogen Engine Center, Inc., (OTC BB: HYEG), a developer
of systems and processes used in the design, manufacture and distribution
of alternative fuel internal combustion engines, engine controls and
generator systems, is saddened to announced the untimely passing of
Professor Tapan Bose, President of Hydrogen Engine Centre Canada. Ted Hollinger, founder of HEC and head of HEC’s Advanced Carbonless Energy Technology Group (ACETG), said, “We are profoundly affected by the loss of our friend and colleague, Tapan. He had dedicated his life to his family and his work, and he was one of those rare individuals who excelled at both. I was fortunate enough to know him both as a friend and as a fellow scientist. I couldn’t have worked with a better physicist. Tapan and I had outlined many projects to move hydrogen and ammonia technology forward. I am more determined than ever to continue his work.” Tapan K. Bose obtained his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Louvain, Belgium and his postdoctoral studies at Brown University in the United States. Dr. Bose had served as the President of Hydrogen Engine Centre Canada since September 2005 and as the Eastern Vice-Chair of the Canadian Hydrogen Association. He was a former professor of physics and founder and former Director of the Hydrogen Research Institute at the University of Quebec in Canada. In 2005, the University recognized Dr. Bose’s contributions by officially naming the building housing the Hydrogen Research Institute as the Tapan K. Bose Pavilion. He was also the former Chairman of ISO/TC 197 for hydrogen technologies. Dr. Bose had been a member of the Hydrogen Technical Advisory Group of Natural Resources Canada and member of the Board of Directors of the National Hydrogen Association in the United States. In his lifetime, he had authored and co-authored more than 140 publications and 4 books. He held 14 patents and numerous technical reports. He had delivered more than 100 invited lectures. On April 23, 1993, he was awarded the Medal of the Governor General of Canada for services rendered to Canada on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Confederation. This was followed on March 26, 1994, with the Medal of Merit from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières for his scholarly achievements. In October 1994, Dr. Bose was named Laureate of Research and Development, 5th Énergia Gala, Association québécoise pour la maîtrise de l'énergie (AQME). On March 8, 2001 Meritorious Service Award for outstanding leadership of both ISO TC 197 and the Canadian Hydrogen Association, National Hydrogen Association, USA Dr. Bose is survived by his wife, Gourri, his son Prosenjit, and daughter Ruma. Hydrogen Engine Center expresses its deepest condolences to Dr. Bose’s family, friends and colleagues. His friendship and talents will be missed by all who had the pleasure of knowing him. The Company’s senior management will meet in the near future to consider possible successors. |
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The cars which emits no greenhouse gases or creates no pollution... Cell phones and laptops working for a long time with a single cartridge without the necessity of recharging... The sun, the wind or the water from the river used for heating and lighting even in the night or when there is no wind and the river is dry... The energy from the sun, the wind, the rivers and the nuclear reactors is used to run the car engines... Is it possible? In other words, can we use energy in a way that it can be stored, be renewable and respects the environment and does no harm to health? -- Amazon.com |
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Catalyst and Fuel Cell Surface Chemistry Researcher |
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2007 is
awarded for groundbreaking studies in surface chemistry. This science is
important for the chemical industry and can help us to understand such
varied processes as why iron rusts, how fuel cells function and how the
catalysts in our cars work. Chemical reactions on catalytic surfaces play
a vital role in many industrial operations, such as the production of
artificial fertilizers. Surface chemistry can even explain the destruction
of the ozone layer, as vital steps in the reaction actually take place on
the surfaces of small crystals of ice in the stratosphere. The
semiconductor industry is yet another area that depends on knowledge of
surface chemistry. It was thanks to processes developed in the semiconductor industry that the modern science of surface chemistry began to emerge in the 1960s. Gerhard Ertl was one of the first to see the potential of these new techniques. Step by step he has created a methodology for surface chemistry by demonstrating how different experimental procedures can be used to provide a complete picture of a surface reaction. This science requires advanced high-vacuum experimental equipment as the aim is to observe how individual layers of atoms and molecules behave on the extremely pure surface of a metal, for instance. It must therefore be possible to determine exactly which element is admitted to the system. Contamination could jeopardize all the measurements. Acquiring a complete picture of the reaction requires great precision and a combination of many different experimental techniques. Gerhard Ertl has founded an experimental school of thought by showing how reliable results can be attained in this difficult area of research. His insights have provided the scientific basis of modern surface chemistry: his method-ology is used in both academic research and the indust-rial development of chemical processes. The approach developed by Ertl is based not least on his studies of the Haber-Bosch process, in which nitrogen is extracted from the air for inclusion in artificial fertilizers. This reaction, which functions using an iron surface as its catalyst, has enormous economic significance because the availability of nitrogen for growing plants is often restricted. Ertl has also studied the oxidation of carbon monoxide on platinum, a reaction that takes place in the catalyst of cars to clean exhaust emissions. |
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SURPRISE -- HE'S A ROYAL KENNEDY AFTER ALL! Breakthrough Institute December 16, 2005 Oakland, California — Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, Co-Directors of the Breakthrough Institute and the authors of a widely discussed report arguing that environmentalism was failing to deal with the crisis of global warming, today called on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to resign his position as Senior Attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council. On Friday, December 16, 2005, Kennedy, Jr. wrote an op-ed piece advocating against the Cape Wind project. The New York Times reported on December 14 that opponents of the wind farm were working with the notoriously antienvironmental lawmaker, Rep. Don Young, to pass an amendment to the Coast Guard budget bill that would ban new wind farms within 1.5 miles of a shipping lane or ferry route — legislation aimed directly at the Cape Wind farm project. The Breakthrough Institute statement by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger follows:
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CONGRESS TARGETS EARMARKS ---- $125 Billion in Spending Targeted Stephen Dinan Washington Times October 26, 2005 |
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The East Coast media has missed the full dimensions of the California governor's accomplishments and bold proposals. Together, they constitute one of the most astounding, imaginative and forward-thinking agendas in our recent history. |
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Bush hunts the terrorists down and pressures nation-states to give up their sponsorship of
terror gangs, Schwarzenegger is working to solve the problem of Islamic terrorism once and
for all — by ending our dependence on foreign oil and stopping the worldwide economic
and climatic distortions that global oil usage causes. He's doing it by providing aggressive state leadership to open the way for hydrogen fuel cell cars. While President Bush speaks of the advent of these vehicles in the indefinite future, Gov. Schwarzenegger is bringing them to the here and now by converting gas stations along California's interstate highways to provide hydrogen fuel as well as gasoline. With financing projected to come one-third each from federal, state and private sources, California will offer hydrogen fuel every few miles in urban areas and at least every 20 miles along the highway system by 2010. Eventually, he and the leaders of Washington, Oregon, Baja California and British Columbia will work together to create a "hydrogen highway" that will run from B.C. (British Columbia) to B.C. (Baja California). The Schwarzenegger plan calls for state-subsidized production of hydrogen and for tax incentives for those who purchase hydrogen cars. Replacing gasoline engines with hydrogen-fuel cells would eliminate two-thirds of America's need for oil — a demand that we could meet entirely with domestically produced oil. Since California accounts for 20 percent of U.S. new-car purchases, the tail will wag the dog and a national hydrogen grid will become almost inevitable. more
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"This is a program that is connected more with an emergency than with peacetime development."
Hydrogen Hero David Freeman
2002 Fuel Cell Seminar Keynote Address, Palm Springs. California
Legendary energy advisor to U.S. presidents David Freeman, now Chairman of the California Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority, urged fuel cell developers not to discount the internal combustion hydrogen engine as the key element in accelerating the creation of a national hydrogen fuel infrastructure.
"This nation is in serious trouble over oil. Oil money has been the foundation of terrorism in this world. The country needs to get off oil now. The country needs fuel cells now.
"We need a program of hydrogen now. I am not talking about hydrogen from fossil fuel - but from electrolysis. The fuel cell needs to be connected to renewable energy. Wind. Solar.
"It is insufficient to focus on the fuel cell and not the fuel. The I.C.E. (hydrogen internal combustion engine) car is not the enemy of the fuel cell. It would hasten the arrival of the fuel cell."
- David Freeman at the 2002 Fuel Cell Seminar
Power Lunch Marylin Berlin Snell Sierra/Utne Reader
| Federal Official says U.S. Energy Policy Must Diversify KBOTV, Albuquerque NM April 15, 2004 |
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McSlarrow spoke at a
morning session of the North American Energy Summit in Albuquerque. He says that in
addition to the mainstays of oil and natural gas, energy policy must look to coal, nuclear
energy and renewable sources. |
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Address: Kyle McSlarrow Windows MediaGlobal Challenges for U.S. Energy Policy: Economic, Environmental, and Security Risks Brookings Institution March 2, 2004 KEYNOTE.PDF |
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The Straits Times NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE August 17, 2004 |
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National
University of Singapore Develops Lithium Nitride Storage of Hydrogen - Claims
11.4% Hydrogen-by-Weight World Record Christopher
Tan Dr Chen Ping, a 36-year-old chemist from China's Shandong province, is spearheading research into storing hydrogen in a solid medium, lithium nitride, and releasing it on demand - like electricity from a battery. ...Dr Chen literally stumbled upon how hydrogen can be bonded to solids six years ago, soon after joining NUS after |
| graduating from Xiamen University with a doctorate. She was working on nano materials when she found that lithium reacted with hydrogen at high temperatures. In 2001, that accidental discovery was repeated and verified. 'We achieved a storage capacity almost twice that of the best existing solid-state hydrogen storage material,' she recounted with excitement. 'We submitted the results to Nature. To our delight, they published it in their November 2002 issue.' Her pioneering work soon won her global recognition, and she has been invited to address the major carmakers as well as government agencies and universities in Japan. She was also invited to visit California-based Sandia National Laboratories - a leading state defence technology provider - and worked there as a guest consultant in May and June this year. Now the US Department of Energy wants her to join its Annual Review Meeting of Hydrogen Project. | |
"And although Bush did launch a $1.7
billion hydrogen initiative, most experts see hydrogen technology as too far in the future
to be a meaningful solution in the here and now, especially when other technologies, such
as fuel cells, are rapidly emerging." |
Confusing the Public "Hydrogen seems closer or further away,
depending on current fashion. At the moment, a number of, I think, rather poor reports are
being published saying it’s very far away. They reached that conclusion by assuming
inefficient cars and disintegrated implementation. The market is not constrained by that
perception, fortunately. The people who are developing the technologies are continuing to
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Responses to Joe Romm's "We estimate that the life-cycle
costs of owning and operating a hydrogen FCV would be $2,290 less than owning and operating a conventional
gasoline car..., even though the FCV cost $2,800 more initially. This savings would increase to $3,260 over the life
of the car if the auto companies succeeded in lowering their fuel cell system costs to
$20/kW. But
this FC cost reduction is not necessary to achieve life-cycle cost savings
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| KANSAS BILLINGS ENERGY | May 1, 2004 |
'Dr. Hydrogen' Backs Out of Deal Plans to Purchase Former Lawrence Farmland Plant Fall Apart Chad Lawhorn Lawrence Journal-World |
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Billings Bids for Idled Lawrence, Kan., Fertilizer Plant to Build Fuel Cell Manufacturing
Facility Miami Herald
April 15, 2004 Billings said he believed a hydrogen cell manufacturing plant could produce 100 jobs for the area during the next two years and could grow to 700 to 800 jobs by the end of the decade, depending on how quickly Detroit automakers adopt the technology. The deal -- financial terms of which haven't been disclosed -- is far from complete. |
Billings said a May 1 deadline created by Farmland also made the deal difficult to complete. He said Farmland, which is liquidating its assets as part of a bankruptcy proceeding, had reached a deal to sell the bulk of the facility's fertilizer production equipment to Louisiana Chemical Equipment Co. The fertilizer equipment was of prime interest to Billings because in addition to manufacturing fuel cells, he intended to produce fertilizer at the site as a way of providing cash to his hydrogen company. |
When hydrogen is split off from methane and added to nitrogen and oxygen, it becomes anhydrous ammonia, which in turn is used to make the other basic components of fertilizer -- ammonium nitrate, urea, nitrogen solutions, ammonium sulfate and ammoniated phosphates. -- Financial Times August 7, 2000 |
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"I continue to be amazed at how
comparatively little is being spent across the board by the federal government or by
Detroit to reduce vehicular emissions from cars, trucks and buses and also to develop
alternative energy systems that will reduce America's dependence on foreign oil. Why are
CAFE standards (for auto fuel efficiency) more lax now than they have been in 15 years?
Why will a Detroit auto company spend $900 million in one year just to change the body
design on an existing car, but only a tiny fraction of that on cleaner alternative drive
train technologies? Frankly, funding for our flywheel hybrid program deserves to be a
hundred times larger, and development of other companies' equally promising alternative
energy technologies deserve to be well funded too. America spends an enormous amount every
year to protect its foreign oil supplies by projecting its military power abroad. Even if
we spent only 5% of that amount on alternative energy, it would be likely to lead to major
technological breakthroughs or acceleration in the deployment of systems such as ours, in
which much has already been invested. In my opinion, if this were to occur, it would
result in a dramatic reduction of the need for so large a military budget." |
Dennis Weaver, HYDROGEN HERO
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for a number of years and have seen some very disturbing changes taking place," said
Weaver, now 78. "Scientists are telling us that we are now heading toward environmental suicide." But Weaver believes that direction can be changed. "We can have a sustainable future," he said. "This idea that we have to choose one (ecology) over the other (economy) is a false idea." To drive home this message, [Weaver's Institute of Ecolonomics] on May 1 will start the Drive to Survive 2003. That project involves driving a fleet of vehicles powered by alternate energy sources, including hydrogen fuel, from California to the nation’s capital. The cross-country trip reverses one made in 1919 by then Army Maj. Dwight Eisenhower to show the potential of the internal combustion gasoline engine. "We think it’s time to make that trip again, but demonstrate the need and tremendous potential of hydrogen," Weaver said. The reliance on oil and gas is not sustainable, given the finite sources of those fossil fuels, he said. Moreover, the nation needs to conserve its oil now so there will be time to make the transition to alternate fuels, he stressed. "We need to push the envelope a little bit," he said. "We need a national commitment, the same kind we made when we decided to rebuild after World War II." If public and private entities concerned about the ecology and the economy work together, a sustainable future will result, he said. "I often describe the environmentalists and the industrialists like two horses in the same harness, pulling in different directions," he said. "We need to get those horses pulling in the same direction. "We don’t have to choose between the two," he reiterated. "We can have a strong economy and still save the place where we live." Actor Dennis Weaver Visits Valley by Paul Fattig Mail Tribune, Medford, Oregon January 3, 2003 Dennis Weaver Stars in 'Touched by an Angel' in Role Written for Him Paralleling What He Is Doing in Real Life to Stop Importation of Oil and Champion Use of Hydrogen Dennis Weaver/PRNewswire January 16, 2003 |
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"Dennis Weaver: The Hydrogen Future and Human Enlightenment" RealPlayer Video Download (9.2MB) 22 minutes RealPlayer Audio 22 minutes CHBC Spring Meeting, Bechtel Headquarters, San Francisco, CA June 11, 2001 |
"Objectively speaking, the publication of the work under consideration is deemed to
fall within the concept of scientific dishonesty. In view of the subjective requirements
made in terms of intent or gross negligence, however, Bjørn Lomborg's publication cannot
fall within the bounds of this characterization. Conversely, the publication is deemed
clearly contrary to the standards of good scientific practice."
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Widely-published science and
science fiction author looks at the hydrogen issueBringing Fuel-cell
Gospel to University of California, Davis |
 In 1979, Ballard
founded Ballard Power Systems Inc.,
based near Vancouver, British Columbia, which pioneered fuel cells that power cars, trucks
and buses. Four years ago, he started General Hydrogen, a company
which focuses on building an infrastructure that would make hydrogen fuel more widely
available. Three years ago, Time magazine named him a "Hero for the
Planet" and he was recently made chairman of the board of advisers for the Institute of Transportation
Studies at UC Davis. On Friday, Ballard told a packed room of engineering students and professors that fuel cells will not only revolutionize transportation, but also change how energy is stored and distributed. For the first time, he said, large amounts of electricity will be available under the hoods of cars. In fact, if 4 percent of the vehicles on California roads today ran on fuel cells, he said, they could generate the same amount of energy produced by all the electrical power plants in the state. He said homes, even entire buildings, could be powered by cars idling silently outside. "Transportation as we know it is about to revolutionize our way of life," he said. |
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How Does Oil Influence World Politics? BBC TALKING POINTS SEPTEMBER 1, 2002 RealAudio get RealPlayer "Unless
the Western democracies institute aggressive programs to develop renewable energy
resources now, all future democratic policy will by necessity be based upon access to
diminishing supplies of oil - the great majority held by Middle Eastern
dictatorships. Hence, freedom will be lost and foreign dictators will rule the West
by proxy." |
Dennis Weaver delivers keynote
address at the Spring 2001 CHBC Meeting |
"I’ve been walking around the planet for a number of years and have seen some
very disturbing changes taking place," said Weaver, now 78. Actor and Malibu resident Dennis
Weaver and his wife, Gerry, who are on an environmental crusade that has taken them from
conference to conference throughout the Southwest, currently drive a Prius. But their
focus is to promote hydrogen technology for vehicles that would be completely independent
from gasoline in the future. " |
Dennis Weaver's Keynote Address to the CHBC RealPlayer Video Download (9.2MB) 22 minutes RealPlayer Audio 22 minutes |
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"If carbon based energy sources must be set aside, and I believe they must, then the only remaining viable source, at this stage in our development, is nuclear. Yes, there will be other possibilities in the future. Recently there has been speculation in the press that Hydrogen could be mined directly from deep earth sources, and Hydrogen is the fuel and element of space. But within the scope of today’s technology, nuclear fission is the only viable, clean source of large quantities of energy."
Dr. Geoffrey Ballard
Founder, Ballard Power Systems
Chairman, General Hydrogen
Keynote Address
World Hydrogen Energy Conference Montreal 2002
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Geoffrey Ballard's remarkable
achievement has been to compress the size, increase the power and lower the cost of the
fuel cell, an electrochemical device that combines oxygen with hydrogen to generate
electricity. Hydrogen fuel cells will provide the power to propel all vehicles without
harming the environment, converting the universe's most abundant element into electricity.
A hydrogen powered world might have a number of interesting benefits, such as slowing
temperature increases around the world, ending North America's dependence on foreign oil,
and even our vulnerability to terrorists.
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White Mountain
Facilities Exploring Change
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EarthVision Environmental News July 8, 2002
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with Gerry [Weaver] of the Institute of Ecolonomics, for ten years has been encouraging
businesses to profit while cleaning up the environment. His non-profit group has members
throughout the U.S., publishes a newsletter, and has been honored for its achievements.
Ecolonomics is now taught at three colleges. In November The Institute will conduct a hydrogen-fueled vehicles expedition, The Drive for Life, with Dennis as one of the drivers, from Los Angeles to Denver. It will call attention to the World Congress To Initiate The Hydrogen Economy, co-sponsored by The Institute, to be held in Denver in November. more PRNewswire May 23, 2001
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