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This video, with Dr. Tom Koppel, author of 'Powering the Future - The Ballard Fuel Cell and the Race to Change the World,' tells a "larger hydrogen economy story," said Scientific American's Fuel Cell Industry Report.
Produced and directed by independent filmmaker Richard D. Masters at the request of Hawaii's Energy and Environmental Protection Chair, Representative Mina Morita, HYDROGEN HAWAII examines the rich potential of Hawaii to become free of total oil dependence by tapping the islands' abundance of renewable energy - and create a model for the conversion of "the mainland" to a hydrogen economy.
Produced in the year of the terror attacks on the World Trade Center, HYDROGEN HAWAII is a prophetic exploration of America's key national security issue: a dangerous reliance on imported petroleum. The latest developments in hydrogen energy are covered in detail. Fuel cell buses in Canada; political discussions in Washington, D.C., and a bold government initiative to bring fuel cell cars to California. Updated for 2003, the delivery of commercial Japanese fuel cell cars to the City of Los Angeles and the University of California presents a profound new challenge to Detroit and OPEC, and fires the first shot of what is destined to become the greatest technological race of the 21st century.
Only six weeks after the release of this updated edition, President George W. Bush announced the United States would develop a hydrogen economy to remove itself from the influence of imported oil. HYDROGEN HAWAII provides a unique perspective to this technology and its urgency.
Director Richard D. Masters is also webmaster of the international conference on Cooperation for Energy Independence for Democracies in the 21st Century (www.energycooperation.org), principal of the International Clearinghouse for Hydrogen Based Commerce (www.ch2bc.org) and a founding director of the New Mexico Hydrogen Business Council (www.nmhbc.org).
This video was a finalist for the 2002 Telly Award in Film & Video.
This video was added to our catalog on January 01, 2000 in Vehicles::Alternative Energy.
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This video was such a good fit for our non-profit: Friends of NELHA (Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority)...We would like to own a copy and use excerpts from it in our public presentations. It was, I believe, the precursor to our Gateway Distributed and Renewable Energy Resource Center at NELHA. I especially enjoyed the comparison between the Big Island of Hawaii and Iceland in terms of their mutual abundance of renewable resource options. I think this video is even more relavant today than it was when it was produced and would love to have continuous updates on the subject matter and data that it offered. Thank you, Ken Fowler, Executive Director, Friends of NELHA (FON): 808-756-2558
I was hoping for something more exciting for my students. They were doing a section on hydrogen and the video seemed to jump around a bit too much for the beginner student to follow. It seemed to be geared toward the enthusiast more than the rookie.
