December 2005
Happy Christmas, Hanukkah, Glad Tidings to All and a Joyous New Year! The Las Vegas Electric Vehicle Association (LVEVA) will meet on the third Saturday of each month during 2005. Meetings will be held at the Clark County
Library on 1401 E. Flamingo Road from 10:15 AM to 12:15 PM. Members will be displaying their own electric cars and answering questions before and after the meeting. January 2006 20 Monthly Meeting Richard Furniss, President Newsletter Editors and Contributors: WATTS HAPPENING Las Vegas Electric Vehicle Association web site Call for Information:
1. LVEVA Board of Directors' Elections for 3 Positions at December 17th Monthly Meeting LVEVA Board of Directors' Elections for 3 Positions at December 17th Monthly Meeting The Las
Vegas Electric Vehicle Association, as a chapter of the international Electric Auto Association, conforms to rules of governance determined by this parent non-profit organization. Each chapter is governed by a Board of Directors
that, in turn, elects the officers for that chapter—President, Vice-President, and Secretary Treasurer. Board of Directors members have seniority positions within each chapter due to their record of activities and are elected by
their peer LVEVA members. There are seven Board Member positions for this LVEVA chapter. Each Board Member serves a three-year term and re-election for at least two positions is scheduled in December of each year. Also at the end
of the year, the Board of Directors convenes on its own after these elections to install new officers for the upcoming year. Current LVEVA Board Members are: Al Sawyer, Al D'Inzillo, Adam Howard, Bill Kuehl, Bill Yule, Richard
Furniss and Jan Himber. The positions held by Al Sawyer and Al D'Inzillo have reached the end of their terms and the two Board Members are up for re-election during this cycle. In addition, Board Member Adam Howard has chosen to
resign his position, leaving 3 seats open for election. This year's nominees are for those three positions are: Al Sawyer, Al D'Inzillo, Danny Gersten, Don Sepka, Jon Hallquist, Stan Hanel and John Bullis. Voting will be by
secret ballot performed by those LVEVA members attending the next monthly meeting on December 17th at the Flamingo Public Library. Absentee ballots can be arranged by contacting Richard Furniss at: (702) 453-6196.
Please attend and support the continued growth of the LVEVA community and projects for 2006. LVEVA Member John Bullis and his wife, Leti, once
again hosted the LVEVA in Boulder City for the group's annual Christmas party and participation in this year's "Parade of Lights" on Saturday, December 3rd. Leti and John are also the proud new owners of a GEM Neighborhood
Electric Vehicle that Leti drove in the parade, decorated on top with a large Santa hat, tinsel and Christmas lights all around. John and Leti also provided several other 3-wheel and 2-wheel EV's that he and other LVEVA members
rode in the parade. John drove a vintage 1950's 3-wheel Electric Cushman that had been modified for increased power by rewiring the motor and adding inexpensive "swamp cooler" pulley belts to drive the power train. LVEVA Members
Jan Himber and Al Sawyer created seven red battery-powered LED vests for the occasion that lit up in the form of a Star, Christmas Tree, on Snowman on the backs of some of the parade motorists. These would make great safety vests
for bicyclists or EV motorists at night. Al Sawyer drove his personally designed Lectra Motors Centauri with Ken Woods in the passenger seat, waving to the parade viewers. Other LVEVA participants included President Richard
Furniss providing technical support and early preparations, Vice-President Bill Yule and his Electric Hyundai conversion, Secretary/Treasurer Bill Kuehl with Amanda Cabillan in a Hybrid Toyota Gas/Electric 2004 Prius, Adam Howard
driving his newly-created Aardvark Electric Bicycle, Stan Hanel driving John Bullis' Sharper Image "Cruiser" Retro Electric Bicycle, and Jan Himber on an Electric two-wheel hub motor-powered scooter. The two Electric bicycles also
used hub motors, the Sharper Image bicycle has the hub motor mounted on the rear wheel while Adam Howard's Aardvark uses a front-wheel drive hub motor system. After returning to John and Leti's house, the LVEVA parade committee
adjourned to their living room to partake of Hor D'ouerves, Sloppy Joe Hamburgers and Hot Chocolate to warm the participants' insides, and wonderful Chocolate Fudge Brownies. Once again, it took a
major catastrophe to remind Americans that our country needs to be weaned off our addiction to fossil fuel-based energy sources that are not renewable. According to a recent report by the the US Interior, tropical storms this year
destroyed 108 offshore oil-drilling platforms and another 53 "heavily damaged" plaforms could be off-line into next year. Best case, the platforms with minor damage will take weeks to repair, with others requiring years of work.
The groundswell of interest in developing Alternative Energy resources is once again creating a new wave of attention to this problem and may provide new funding opportunities for promising new technologies. However, as gasoline
prices drop back to a more reasonable $2.20 per gallon, many drivers may forget their hardships this year and settle back into their comfortable gasoline consuming routine. Many alternative technologies are available, if the
cost and business infrastructure makes sense. Nevada has the capability of leading the growth of an alternative energy technology society in this fast growing state.
Former President Bill Clinton paid a visit to the Nevada Development Authority (Web site: "If I were the economic development czar for America today or if I were in charge of economic planning for Las Vegas and Nevada today, I would start by making a complete and total commitment to a clean energy future,"
Clinton said, "because I think you can create more jobs there than anywhere else." Clinton reasoned that new technology for wind, solar and other renewable generation methods would lower costs to businesses and
consumers. At the same time it would reduce the need for fossil fuel-burning plants that dirty the environment, and the engineering and manufacturing needed to develop and produce the technology would also become an engine for the
economy. Additionally, Nevada has the chance to capitalize on an industry that currently has few major foreign competitors, leaving a wealth of business opportunities untapped, Clinton said.
The Nevada Business Community responded, led by President Somer Hollingsworth: "It's true. Biotech, everybody's trying to get on that," Hollingsworth said. "This is one that has been lying around for years, and no
one's gone anywhere with it. It's do-good, feel-good, but it's great business." "I think ultimately, you're going to have to demonstrate to businesses that they can get a return on investment," said Glenn
Christenson, chief financial officer of Station Casinos Inc. Station Casinos has implemented many energy conservation programs since 2001, and those measures have produced $2 million in annual energy-cost savings. "It's very
meaningful," Christenson said. Don Snyder, recently retired president of Boyd Gaming Corp. and chairman of the foundation for the Smith Center for the Performing Arts: "The challenge is to build more efficiently without increasing the
cost," said Focus Property Group Chief Executive John Ritter. "That's the juggling act right there. You have to be able to accomplish both things." "I still think it's the right way to go," he said. UNLV President Carol Harter said the interest in partnerships with the university on research into renewable energy and new building
techniques appears to be on the rise as companies look for opportunities. "I think we're starting to see that develop," Harter said. "I'm not sure it's at the highest level yet." Rebecca Wagner, energy
advisor to Gov. Kenny Guinn: "I think there is a genuine interest in green building and green energy within the business community in Southern Nevada," she said. "The rising energy prices could start playing a bigger
role in making those decisions. ... The feel-good stuff is great, but it's got to be a good economic decision." Walter Higgins, chief executive for Sierra Pacific Resources, parent company of Nevada Power Co. of Las Vegas:
"It's not going to be the next Silicon Valley, but we might end up with a couple of major manufacturers here and that would be great," he said. What could prove to be an economic engine is the possible export of
renewable energy generated in Nevada. Higgins said the state's available land, sun, wind and geothermal resources could be leveraged as other states struggle with similar fossil fuel volatility. "Let's take advantage of
that," he said. "Why wouldn't we see if that can't be used to Nevada's advantage." Roberto Denis, Sierra Pacific's senior vice president for generation and energy supply: Some of that work is already in progress but has been held up due to lack of funding by Sierra Pacific and Nevada Power to commit to purchase
and distribution the alternative energies generated. This funding problem is being bridged by the help of the Nevada State Government that is setting aside a trust fund and providing tax credits to the Utility to encourage it to
convert 15% of its capacity to "green" alternative energy sources by 2015. This goal exceeds Federal government mandates by five years.
Successful business models are already starting in other states as shown in these Press Releases: Evergreen Solar Awarded $70 Million Deal with PowerLight Corporation 4/21/2005 Updated from 12:39 p.m. EDT "We've decided that we are going to begin investigating
an IPO for SunPower," says Cypress CEO T.J. Rodgers. He said SunPower needs funds to build out its manufacturing capabilities and that Cypress can accommodate the expansion, but that an IPO for SunPower would be the best way
for its unit to grow. In Canada, ATS (Automation Tooling
Systems) owns two Alternative solar energy subsidiaries, Spheral Solar and Photowatt. The company makes flexible solar modules with about 10 per cent efficiency using a new production method by creating pin-size holes in an
aluminum sheet and filling the holes with tiny balls of silicon. They then bond each side to create flexible solar modules ideal for integration into building supplies and other applications that require flexible materials. The
State of Nevada can incubate new alternative energy technologies through its university system and its research labs. The University of Nevada Las Vegas, under Mechanical Engineering Professor Robert Boehm has already developed
groundbreaking research in the use of Solar Power and tracking heliostat arrays that convert sunlight and heat into a photoelectric output. Focused solar heat can induce mechanical motion with a "hot/cold" Stirling Engine. The UNLV
solar arrays for Professor Boehm's experimental project is visible from Flamingo Road near the UNLV campus and Desert Research Institute. A Power Plant project being built near Boulder City also hopes to put the Las Vegas
Valley's annual desert summer heat to work, expanding gas-filled pressure chambers that can drive turbines to create electricity during months of peak air-conditioning usage. At first glance, hydrogen fuel cells might seem like the perfect alternative to fossil fuels. They can generate electricity using only hydrogen and oxygen and are pollution free. An automobile running on hydrogen
fuel cells would not only be more efficient than one powered by an internal combustion engine, its only emission would be water. Unfortunately, while hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, most of it is bound up
in molecules such as water. That means pure unbound hydrogen must be produced with the help of other energy sources -- which in many cases involve fossil fuels. If that's the case, then many of the environmental benefits of
hydrogen as a fuel are negated. Another problem with hydrogen is that it cannot be compressed easily or safely, and requires large tanks to store. Also, for reasons that are not fully understood, hydrogen atoms have a tendency to
bleed through the materials encasing them, thus weakening their containers. The efficient use of steam may be on overlooked technology. Of the early Steam-powered cars, Stanley and Locomobile were the second most popular
automobile manufacturers after the Baker Electrics up until 1912, when the electric starter was intorduced for gasoline engines. The Doble steam cars of the late '20's and early '30's had modern enclosed bodies and an electric
starter for the burners. They were ready to roll in 60 seconds from cold temperatures. Biomass energy, or biofuel, involves releasing the
chemical energy stored in organic matter such as wood, crops, and animal waste. These materials are burned directly to produce heat or refined to create alcoholic fuels like ethanol. Hawaii's sugar cane crops were converted this
way during World War II and have been available in that state to power automobiles at neighborhood gas stations for decades. Biodiesel made from organic vegetable oils and other sources, has been making headway in supplementing
standard diesel fuel. Locally, there is a commercial gas station distributing it here in North Las Vegas. One exciting but controversial biofuel alternative involves a process known as thermal conversion, or TCP. Unlike
conventional biofuels, TCP can convert practically any type of organic matter into high quality petroleum with water as the only byproduct, proponents claim. It remains to be seen, however, whether Changing World Technologies, the
company that patented the process, can produce enough oil for it to become a viable fuel alternative. Scientists are also experimenting with using bacteria to break down biomass for use as fuel or directly as electricity.
Some experiments in microbe bio-energy have involved using bacteria to process gastro-intestinal products from animals and humans, in order to generate small amounts of electricity. On August 31, 2005 in Washington DC at the
American Chemical Society, scientists presented some experiments performed on a cow's intestinal rumen fluids and solid dung. Microbes living in the rumen chamber of a cow's stomach break down cellulose – a tough carbohydrate
produced by plants, to help the cow digest its food. The rumen is a microbe-laden sac in the cow where food is temporarily stored and churned until it can be completely digested. This fermenting juice is the rumen fluid. The researchers extracted
rumen fluid, full of microbes and cellulose, from a living cow using a tube that lead directly into the cow's rumen. Next they built their fuel cells by pouring the fluid into one of two glass chambers, each about the size of a
two-liter soda bottle. They filled the other chamber with ferricyanide, a chemical that needed to complete the electrical circuit. The two chambers were separated by a special material that allowed protons to move from the
negative chamber into the positive chamber. The movement of protons, as wells as electrons across the resistor wire connecting the chambers, creates electric current. Output from the microbe-powered fuel cell reached a consistent
maximum voltage of about 600 millivolts. After four days, the output fell to 200 millivolts, but researchers bumped it back up to the higher output by simply adding more cellulose. Christy and her colleagues also built similar
fuel cells using cow manure instead of rumen fluid as the energy source. These consistently produced between 300 and 400 millivolts. "We've run some of these trials well over 30 days without a decrease in the voltage output,"
Christy said. "Both studies suggest that cow waste is a promising fuel source. It's cheap and plentiful, and it may someday be a useful source of sustainable energy in developing parts of the world." Similar research on the
conversion of Urine to battery power for bio-chips is detailed in the Aug. 15 issue of the Institute of Physics' Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering: Scientists around the world are clamoring to design inexpensive
biochips to quickly test for a variety of diseases. But no one has been able to make a similarly small and inexpensive power source. When a drop of urine is added to the copper chloride paper, a chemical reaction takes place and produces electricity, which is
harnessed by the battery. A few drops will generate about 1.5 volts, the same as a AA battery. The battery needs to be developed further to make it commercially viable. Lee and his team also found that they could alter the battery's performance – voltage, power, or duration – by adjusting the design or materials. Bacteria can clean up toxic waste by eating it. Other bacteria have been employed to produce electricity. Now scientists have
found a two-for-one deal in bacteria that will eat toxic chemicals 24/7 and make electricity to boot. The new study involved Desulfitobacteria, already known for their ability to breakdown and detoxify some of the most problematic environmental pollutants, including PCBs and some chemical solvents. HydroPower: Hoover Dam has been a
foundation for the electric power in the Las Vegas Valley. There may be additional ways to harness the potential power of the huge amount of water that resides in nearby Lake Meade. Whether falling, flowing, or otherwise moving
in tides or underwater currents, water can be harnessed to produce electric power. Hydropower supplies approximately 20 percent of the world's electricity. Water is a natural solar energy collector. OTEC, or ocean thermal energy
conversion, aims to exploit this fact and use the temperature differences between surface water heated by the sun and water in the lake's chilly depths to generate electricity. OTEC plants generally fall into three categories:
¥? Closed Cycle: A liquid with a low boiling point like ammonia is boiled using warm water. The resulting steam is used to operate an electricity-generating turbine; the vapor is then cooled using cold water. ¥? Open Cycle:
Similar to the closed cycle OTEC, except there is no intermediate liquid. The warm water is converted into low-pressure vapor that is used to generate electricity. The vapor is then cooled and turned into usable fresh water with
cold water. Future Possibilities: Atomic Fusion and Fission: Albert Einstein told us that the line between matter and energy is a fuzzy one. Energy can be produced by
either splitting or combining atoms—processes known as fission and fusion respectively. Currently, most nuclear power plants use fission, as fusion requires tremendous amounts of energy to
produce and maintain the necessary high temperatures. But a natural phenomenon known as sonoluminescence might one day provide a means of duplicating the power of the stars—which are themselves just giant nuclear fusion reactors --
in a beaker of liquid. Sonoluminescence refers to the flash of light produced when special liquids are struck by high-energy sound waves. The sound waves rip through the liquid and produce tiny bubbles that rapidly expand and
then violently collapse. Light is produced in the process, but more importantly, the insides of the imploding bubbles reach extremely high temperatures and pressures -- enough, some scientists speculate, for nuclear fusion to
occur. Scientists are also experimenting with methods to create controlled nuclear fusion by accelerating "heavy" hydrogen ions in a powerful electric field. Antimatter is the opposite twin of
Matter, made up of antiparticles that have the same mass as ordinary matter but with opposite atomic properties known as spin and charge. When the opposed particles meet, they annihilate each other and release tremendous amounts of
energy as dictated by Einstein's famous equation, E=mc2. Antimatter is already in use in a medical imaging technique known as positron emission tomography (PET), but its use as a potential fuel source remains in the realm of
science fiction. A good website
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December 2005 3 Christmas Parade
December 2005 17 Monthly Meeting
LVEVA Board of Directors:
Bill Yule, Vice President
Bill Kuehl, Secretary/Treasurer
Al Sawyer
Jan Himber
Al D'Inzillo
Adam Howard
Bill Kuehl
Richard Furniss
Al Sawyer, P.E.
Jan Himber
Adam Howard
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Contents:
2. LVEVA in Boulder City Christmas "Parade of Lights", Saturday December 3rd
3. Former President Clinton Challenges Nevadans to Create Alternative Energy for the 21st Century!
4. EV Parts and EV's For Sale
LVEVA in Boulder City Christmas "Parade of Lights", Saturday December 3rd!
Thank you to the Boulder City Chamber of Commerce,
John, Leti, Al, Jan, Richard, and all the participants who made this year one of the best-attended LVEVA "Parade of Lights" ever. Looking forward to 2006!
Former President Clinton Challenges Nevadans to Create Alternative Energy for the 21st Century!
The year 2005 may be literally a "watershed" year for the America's Energy industry after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita showed US
vulnerability to a loss of crude oil and petroleum resources. Gas prices at the pump exceeded $3 per gallon in many parts of the country due to the lack of refined crude oil supplies for several months.
"The greater good needs a little bit of
rational economics with it," he said. "They are starting to come together a lot more realistically than people ever thought even a year ago."
The key, he said, is staying in touch with the realities of our valley at the same time.
"We are still a city that has a very large service industry workforce and are typically considered affordable," Ritter said,
pointing out that green building techniques come with a larger price tag.
Other cities, where housing costs are inherently higher, can absorb the cost of those methods as a smaller percentage of the overall costs. Still, Ritter
said, it's worth pursuing.
"The resource is there," he said. "Now we have to do the work."
Marlboro, Mass. -- Evergreen Solar, a Marlboro-based
manufacturer of solar power products, on Friday announced its largest sales agreement to date, an agreement for the company to ship a minimum of $70 million of photovoltaic modules to Berkeley-based PowerLight over the next four
years. PowerLight develops solar electric technologies and large-scale, grid-connected projects. It is anticipated that the Evergreen products will be made at its manufacturing plant in Massachusetts as well as its Germany-based
joint venture EverQ's facility. If all options of the contract with PowerLight are exercised, its value could reach about $170 million. Shipments under the order are scheduled to begin during the first half of
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In a surprise announcement, Cypress Semiconductor (CY:NYSE - commentary - research) said it will pursue
an initial public offering for its SunPower unit. Also, Manny Hernandez, the longtime chief financial officer at Cypress, will become SunPower's CFO and Cypress will begin a search for a new top financial executive.
Shares
spiked on the news, advancing 13% to $13.03. Cypress made the announcements during its first-quarter financial conference call on Thursday during the trading session.
IPO plans for the unit overshadowed a disappointing first quarter. Cypress reported a loss of $65.1 million, or 50 cents a share, on sales of $200.3 million. Excluding charges, the chipmaker posted a loss
of 19 cents a share. Analysts had expected a loss excluding charges of 13 cents a share and sales of $210 million, on average, according to Thomson First Call.
However, Rodgers said the results represent the bottom of the
current slowdown. The company predicted second-quarter sales between $210 million and $235 million with a loss between 8 cents a share and earnings of 2 cents a share. "Our aspiration is to break even this quarter," says
Rodgers.
Analysts had expected a loss of 1 cent a share and sales of $224 million.
Cypress reported separate results for its SunPower unit for the first time in its just-completed first quarter. The subsidiary reported a
loss of $5 million on sales of $11 million. Sales at the unit were expected to be $10 million.
"We need money to fund SunPower's growth," says Rodgers. "We don't want SunPower to be limited by money." He
said Cypress could fund the expansion, but that the growth potential of the silicon solar industry will likely yield a better valuation -- and thus more money -- for SunPower through an IPO.
Wind energy currently accounts for only 0.1
percent of the world's electricity demands, but that number is expected to increase as wind is one of the cleanest forms of energy and can generate power as long as the wind blows. The problem, of course, is that winds don't always
blow, and wind power cannot be relied upon to produce constant electricity. There is also concern that large-scale wind farms might impact weather and the environment in ways that are yet to be fully understood. Nevada's vast
expanse of open desert land can allow for the collection and distribution of this power. One plan envisioned by the Bureau of Land Management was to use Power Grid infrastructures already built around old Nevada mining ghost towns
that might be retrofitted to transmit back to the state of Nevada's energy grid any new renewable power generated in these remote, unpopulated areas. The presence of a new power source might also help to restore these abandoned
communities.
There were even " modern " steam tractors. The Bryant was an oil burner and the Baker was a
coal burner with automatic stoker. They condensed and re-used the exhaust steam in the
same era as the Doble cars. Competition was tough when gasoline was 12 cents a gallon.
This process also releases electrons which scientists can harness for use in a battery. Scientists used about a liter of microbe-rich rumen fluid to produce 600 millivolts of
electricity – about half the voltage needed to run one rechargeable AA battery.
"While that's a very small amount of voltage, the results show that it is possible to create electricity from cow waste," said study co-author Ann
Christy of Ohio State University.
Lee and his team of researchers at Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
have tackled this problem by using the very substance being tested – urine – to power the test.
To make the battery, Lee and his team soaked a piece of paper in copper chloride and then sandwiched it between strips of magnesium
and copper. Then they laminated the credit card-sized unit between transparent plastic films.
"Our urine-activated battery would be integrated into
biochip systems for healthcare diagnostic applications," Lee said.
The
chemical composition of urine indicates a person's general health and is widely used in diagnostic tests. For instance, doctors measure the concentration of the sugar glucose to determine whether someone is diabetic. Lee predicts
that one day people will be able to monitor their own health at home using biochips powered by this type of battery. "These fully-integrated biochip systems have a huge market potential," Lee said.
These findings
were to be presented recently at the 105th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology:
"The bacteria are capable of continuously generating electricity at levels that could be used to operate small electronic
devices," says Charles Milliken of the Medical University of South Carolina, who conducted the research with colleague Harold May. "As long as the bacteria are fed fuel they are able to produce electricity 24 hours a
day."
"These
bacteria are very diverse in their metabolic capabilities, including the food that they can consume. That means that these bacteria can convert a large number of different food sources into electricity," says Milliken.
"The technology could be used to assist in the reclamation of wastewaters, thereby resulting in the removal of waste and generation of electricity."
The bacteria perform their useful tasks while in spore form, a
dormant stage of growth that can handle extreme heat, radiation and lack of water -- all useful traits for an organism that might be employed in some of the worst manmade environments.
¥? Hybrid Cycle: A closed cycle OTEC is used to generate electricity, which is then used to create the low-pressure environment necessary for the open cycle.
OTEC plants can double as fresh water sources
and the nutrient rich water drawn from the depths can be used to culture marine organisms and plants. The major drawback of OTEC is that since they operate on such small temperature differences, generally about 36 degrees
Fahrenheit (20 Celsius), they are only 1 to 3 percent efficient.
Nuclear fission releases harmful radiation and produces large amounts of radioactive material, which can remain active for thousands of
years and can destroy entire ecosystems if leaked. There is also concern that nuclear material could be used in weapons.
Positrons and Antimatter
The problem with antimatter is that there is very little of it in the universe. It can be produced in laboratories, but currently only in very tiny amounts, and at prohibitively high costs. And even if the
problem of production could be solved, there is still the knotty question of how to store something that has a tendency to annihilate itself on contact with ordinary matter, and also how to harness that energy once created. NASA
funds research into creating antimatter drives that could one day take humanity to the stars, but dreams of antimatter-powered starships as seen on Star Trek are still a long way off, all experts agree.
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