The session stated with Jeff Serfass giving CEC Commissioner Anthony Eggert an award for Meritorius Service. Anthony started his career with Ford's fuel cell program and worked several other jobs, including a stint at CaFCP. Anthony said that his grandpa introduced him to the idea of H2 when Anthony was 7. Grandpa, an economist, wondered why we couldn't tap the energy in plants, and that sparked Anthony's interest.

Catherine is the first speaker. We'll post her whole speech on the CaFCP website. (We're trying to record her voice with a new digital voice recorder.)

Tom Sullivan spoke next. Tom is the founder of Lumber Liquidators and owns CaFCP member Lumber Liquidators. His passion in new energy. He stumbled upon Proton, which was for sale, and bought it "after a day of due diligence." He learned about the chicken and egg, and decided to do something about it with the Lumber Liquidators real estate and the Proton technology. The result is SunHydro---an east coast network of stations using solar electrolysis. Check out www.sunhydro.com for a look at the station and the location map.

Tom introduced the 10 students who won the first Proton Hydrogen Scholarship. Go science and engineering students!!

Keynotes ended with an account from Neil Smith. He talked about his expereience as a Project Driveway driver and his three months with a Chevy fuel cell vehicle. (Brought back find memories of the one we had for a short while, too.)