Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Futures Conference
12 -15 September 2004 Burswood International Resort, Perth
Western Australia
Excerpts from the Conference:
This Internet Documentation was provided free of charge by Arno
A. Evers FAIR-PR and his team
Simon Whitehouse, Project Director,
Perth Fuel Cell Bus Trial, Department for Planning and Infrastructure,
Government of Western Australia, Organizer of the Conference
at the Welcome Coctail Receiption and Official Opening of the
Industry Exhibition (picture left); together with part of his
team (picture right); the Industry Exhibition was opened by
Clive Brown, Minister for State Development of WA.
The Aboriginal Dancers "Wadunga" together
with "Old Chief" Ken Colbung, (right picture top)
with the band "Gumnut Stompers" (middle picture top)
at the Welcome Coctail Receiption and Official Opening of the
Industry Exhibition.
Reinhold Wurster, Ludwig-Boelkow-Systemtechnik
GmbH, Germany, International Policies for sustainable Transport
Energy with a focus on Europe and on Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
(left / middle picture); Hon Alannah MacTiernan MLA, Minister
for Planning and Infrastructure, Honorary Chair, Organising
Committee Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Futures Conference and Exhibition
(right picture)
At the Opening session: Claude Mandil, International
Agency at his Principal Address: "International energy
supplies and the likely future role for hydrogen" (picture
left); Claude Mandil International Energy Agency, France: Principal
Keynote Address: International Energy Supplies and the Likely
Future Roles for Hydrogen (picture middle); Hideaki Akamatsu,
Fuel Cell Conference of Japan: Fuel Cell Demonstration Project
in Japan - From Laboratory to Market (right picture)
Prof Thorsteinn Sigfusson, Icelandic New Energy
Ltd, Iceland, National and International Policies and Strategies
for Moving towards Sustainable Transport Energy (left picture);
Dr Andreas Truckenbrodt DaimlerChrysler GERMANY Fuel Cell Strategy
of DaimlerChrysler (middle picture); Kazukiyo Okano Hydrogen
Energy Systems Society JAPAN Hydrogen Introduction to Transportation
Market Place in Japan (right picture)
Arno A. Evers from Arno A. Evers FAIR-PR, Germany
at his presentation: "Distributed generation: scenarios
and strategies leading to hydrogen and fuel cell commercialisation"
Evers gave examples from the implementation time of household
appliances to the evolution in the aircraft industry. (Photos:
Courtesy of Reinhold Wurster, Ludwig-Boelkow-Systemtechnik GmbH,
Germany)
Jon-Bjorn Skulason Icelandic New Energy Ltd: ICELAND
ECTOS - a Case Study for the Introduction of Hydrogen and Fuel
Cells
Prof Xinhe Bao, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics,
China: Overview of Transport Trials and Demonstrations of Hydrogen
and Fuel Cells in China (middle picture top)
Reinhold Wurster, L-B-Systemtechnik Germany: Overview
of Trials and Demonstrations of Hydrogen in Transportation in
Europe
Lisa Callaghan, Northeast Advanced Vehicle Consortium
UNITED, Boston, MA, USA, North American Fuel Cell Bus Trials:
Past, Present & Future
Greg
Vesey, ChevronTexaco President of Technology Ventures (left
picture); Dr Manfred Schuckert, EvoBus Germany: Global Overview
of DaimerChrysler's Trials and Demonstrations of Hydrogen and
Fuel Cells (middle picture);
Jaimie Levin, AC Transit, USA: AC Transit™s
HyRoad® Development Program
Jonas (Jon) Bereisa, General
Motors, USA:Re-invention of the Automobile
Hydrogen Hypothetical, Final discussion, Panal
Members: Dr David
Hart, Lisa Callaghan, Henry O'Clery, Ty Nguyen, Reinhold
Wurster, Manfred Schuckert and David Peck. Facilitator: Robyn
Williams, Senior Science Journalist and Broadcaster, Australian
Broadcasting Commission, Australia