Session: Alternative Fuels

Overcoming the Economic Barriers to Using Hydrogen as an Alternative Fuel

Peter A. Jeschke, MEI Power Corporation
Abstract: Switching to Hydrogen as an energy carrier would reduce pollution. However, Hydrogen must compete with cheap and plentiful fossil fuel. Using examples of actual power generation projects in development, it will be shown how Hydrogen can compete with fossil fuels if a value is placed on the normally wasted by-products of Hydrogen production.

Bioenergy and Biofuels Projects in Ventura County

Dr. Kay Martin, Deputy Director of Public Works, Ventura County Environmental and Energy Resources Department.
Abstract: At the direction of the Board of Supervisors, the Ventura County Environmental and Energy Resources Department is aggressively promoting the development of biomass and bioenergy projects in Ventura County. Strategic partnerships with the Gold Coast Innovation Center and the California State University of Channel Islands are to yield an anaerobic digester facility, and partnerships with Biodiesel Industries Inc., the Department of the Navy, and the National Park Service, a biodiesel fuel facility at the Naval Base Ventura County.