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February 23, 2011 Ephemera Society
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The Netherlands
Phone: +31 713412181
Presentations and Subjects:
Secondary use of playing cards: about life in the past (1500-present) reflected by reused playing cards.
U.S. ball invitations on playing cards: about social balls in New England (c. 1770-1840).
World War 2 games and puzzles: about the history of WW2 as 'told' by games and puzzles from 18 countries involved in that war.
All Power Point presentations, for people with a general interest.
Presentation in English, German or Dutch.
Duration 30 up to 120 minutes.
I bring my own laptop and beamer.
Biographical Information:
Copywriter and advertising consultant. Collector and researcher of secondary used playing cards, WW2 games and puzzles, and other board and card games. Author of the book 'Small Cards, Great Stories' and other publications. Since 1993 my exhibitions on reused playing cards and WW2 games and puzzles are hosted by 25+ museums in Europe.
Member of Ephemera Society of America, The Ephemera Society (U.K.), Arbeitskreis Bild Druck Papier, Vieux Papier, Dutch Old Paper Collectors, Documentation Group 1940-1945, International Playing Card Society, 52 Plus Joker, American Game and Puzzle Collectors, Dutch Jig-saw Puzzle Society. Museums in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Finland. The Worshipful Makers of Playing Cards, London.
Speaking Engagements:
Since 1990 talks/lectures for societies of collectors, antique dealers, historians, museums, historical societies, service clubs and women clubs in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Hungary, United Kingdom, Sweden, Switzerland, U.S.A. and Canada. Guest in TV and Radio shows in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Hungary and U.S.A. (CNN, History Channel).
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The cast of Disney's "The Lion King Las Vegas" seized the moment and put on a cabaret-style show at E String Grill & Poker Bar in Henderson on Dec. 6."The Moment," as the show was titled, was dedicated to Brenda O'Brien, who is a makeup artist for "The Lion King Las Vegas," or LKLV. Members of the cast and the creative team joined forces and produced the show as a way to celebrate the talent and creativity of all of those involved in LKLV, whether they are onstage each night or not.
Matthew Morgan, who plays the hyena Banzai and is a member of the ensemble, acted as the informal emcee for the night, hopping on and off the stage and teasing the audience and the performers in equal measure.
Singer-songwriter Niles Rivers (Simba and ensmble) started the performances in brilliant style with a well-strummed guitar and an open, inviting voice, heralding the sincerity of numbers to come.
Adam Kozlowski (Pumbaa), pictured left, continued the sincerity with a warm rendition of "When You Wish Upon a Star," coupled with a personality-steeped "I Got Rhythm" and a ukelele. The gregarious man that plays the gregarious warthog sang and scatted and demonstrated the extroverted sociability that makes the character such a hit.
Michael Hollick (Pumbaa, Scar) joined Kozlowski later in the show for cheek-to-cheek, and tongue-in-cheek, duet of "Gossamer" and "Just Arrived from Thunder Road." The unfeigned enjoyment emanating from each was contagious and undeniable.
Robbie Swift, who plays Pumbaa's meerkat wingman Timon in addition to Zazu, the royal attendant, followed in appropriate sidekick fashion. Contrary to the strutting, self-satisfied characters he plays, Swift presented an understated, quietly sincere set of numbers that underscored the diversity of the cast.
The first behind-the-scenes revelation came with Meredith Walker, a makeup artist from the show dressed in vibrant purple. She and Damian Baldet (Timon) sang the playful "Wet Mouth Punch," smiling sidelong at each other through the good-natured parody. Andrew Arrington (Banzai, swing) was decked out in drag and continued the comedic kick with "Try a Little Tenderness," an exaggerated and exuberant number that added diversity to the show.
Concertmaster and first chair violin Rebecca Ramsey, along with second cellist Moonlight Tran and upright and electric bassist Keith Nelson, serenaded the audience wonderfully while the set of the stage was changed. Seeing the performers that are normally only heard was a welcome bonus, and the music was far from commonplace.
Michael Manly, a plaid-wearing French horn player, also emerged from the orchestra pit and delivered a dry, witty monologue about Thanksgiving and "dysfunctional family relations." His clipped voice, together with small, wire-rimmed glasses, gave the impression of a wry, witty and pleasantly sarcastic relative that would not have been out of place at a Thanksgiving table.
Corwin Hodge and Deidrea Halley, both swings in the show, showcased a ubiquitous attribute of each of the cast members: the unwavering ability to communicate with an audience. Hodge and Halley both projected a vulnerability that made way for unadulterated emotion to step forth. This, coupled with the obvious experience of the cast, was part of what made "The Moment" so appealing.
Devin Roberts continued in this vein with "Little Drummer Boy," a song he said he has come to love because of the idea of giving the best that can be offered despite having little.
In addition to the vocals, dance made an appearance as well. Tyrell Rolle (pictured left, kneeling), Derrick Davis, Donna Vaughn, Devin Roberts and Zachary Ingram performed "Silence Moments," choreographed by Rolle, and brought a sense of gratitude and faith to the stage.
In the second act, Saleemah Knight (pictured right, forward) choreographed "I Still Love You," an emotional jazz funk number that leaned in an almost lyrical direction with its perceptive musicality. Both Rolle and Knight did an excellent job of using the space available to them and took advantage of the close proximity of the audience. Professionalism was evident in the committed performance of both pieces.
"Four Women" was a sensual number to Nina Simone's song of the same name and represented a nod to another side of African culture — oppression. Knight, Halley, Vaughn and another ensemble member embodied the self-contained solemnity imbued by the lyrics of the song. The femininity and staid grace was a sobering reminder of, as the song states, "the pain inflicted again and again."
Rivers tipped his fedora to the younger cast members, taking an opportunity to bring Aubrey Joseph and Tim Johnson Jr. to the stage. Both boys play Young Simba in the show and sang along with Rivers in an optimistic song he had written specifically for the upcoming generation.
Derrick Davis (Mufasa and ensemble) joined Rivers in his vision of the future and brought audience members to their feet with "Moving Forward." Davis' looming frame, full-bodied voice poured forth, bringing the energy in the house to a peak just before intermission.
The essence of LKLV was showcased by Kissy Simmons (Nala) and Noku Khuzwayo, Mdu Madela, Buti Mothamana, Buyi Zama, Sindisiwe Nxumalo, Ntsepa Pitjeng, Gugu Ngcobo and Vusi Sondiyazi. Simmons' soaring voice, coupled with the African dress and vocals of the rest of the group, summed up "The Moment" well. The percussive bead skirts worn by the girls and the stunning harmonies reminded the audience that, as much as the cast joked with each other, show business is something that each takes very seriously.
The drawbacks of the show were very few. The more than two-hour running time was daunting, although the relaxed atmosphere mitigated this considerably. The feeling of family was undeniable and both the individuality and cohesiveness of the cast was incredible. Hopefully this will become a serial event and these talented performers will be seen somewhere besides Pride Rock.


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LOS ANGELES — "If you ask me what genre Beyond is," says David Cage, "it's really difficult for me to answer."
How could that be? I think. Shouldn't it be easy to nail it down? Is it a shooter? An RPG? A mascot platformer?
"Heavy Rain was really close to a dark thriller, like Se7en," he says. "Beyond is different in terms of tone."
Duh. Sitting in a small, crowded Los Angeles Convention Center meeting room set up like a tiny theater, I now have to mentally reprimand myself. Of course David Cage doesn't mean gameplay when he says "genre"; he means story. That's where he wants videogames to improve.
At Electronic Entertainment Expo last week, announcements of brand-new games were thin on the ground. This made Sony's Beyond: Two Souls stand out even more. It's the anticipated followup to Heavy Rain, the PlayStation 3 game that blended a remarkably strong mystery narrative with amazing facial capture and simplified gameplay designs. Beyond is an exploration of death and the afterlife in which you play a woman named Jodie Holmes (played by actress Ellen Page) and a spirit named Aiden, who has been tied to her for her entire life. Cage presented Beyond to groups of media in this makeshift theater off of the E3 show floor.
"I try not to do traditional games," he said to another group later in the day. "Look at the show floor — there's no need for another of those."
Heavy Rain followed the intertwining stories of an ensemble cast played by relatively unknown actors. For Beyond's story, which will be tightly focused on a single main character over the course of her life, Cage wanted someone of exceptional talent.
"I can tell you as a director, no one else could have done it," Cage said. "She was a fantastic actress…. In a game where the story relies entirely on one person, you need quite an accomplished actress, capable of being a young teenager who is angry at the world or an adult, having lived what she lived."
Cage sent the script for Beyond to Page's agent, attempting to sell her on the idea while managing her expectations. "We were brutally honest," he said. "This is going to be a very long shooting, similar to a movie…. It requires you to learn by heart hundreds of pages of dialogue. This is going to be exhausting…. Don't think, this is a just a videogame, it's okay to be bad."
Cage and Page met in a bar prior to last year's E3. "When I saw her for the first time, it was a very strange experience for a writer," he said. "Like having your character appear in front of you. It's not Ellen Page, it's Jodie Holmes."
In Beyond, the player follows Jodie's life for 15 years, from childhood to her early twenties. We see how the relationship between Jodie and the unexplained spirit Aiden evolves over time.
"She calls him Aiden and doesn't know why," Cage says. "It's just a name that came to her…. It's not a pet or a power. It doesn't obey. It's a character with a personality all its own," he says, given to violence and jealousy.
At the Sony press conference, we saw a demo that began with Jodie Holmes being questioned by what looked like a small-town sheriff. (Truth be told, he looked a lot like Darrell Sheets from Storage Wars, but Cage said he was in fact played by the same actor who portrayed sleazy club owner "Paco" in Heavy Rain.)
The sheriff's attempts to get Jodie to talk to him are unsuccessful, and a SWAT team soon shows up to apprehend Jodie for reasons unknown. But Aiden's powers turn out to be more than even a squad of highly trained cops can handle, and the pair of them leave the town in ruins.
The story of Heavy Rain can change dramatically due to a player's choices. At the behind-closed-doors presentation in the mini-theater the next day, we saw what appeared to be the sequence leading up to Jodie being caught by the sheriff — although Cage was careful not to confirm this.
We begin this demo with Jodie, at 24 years of age, sleeping on a train. The Quantic Dream developer giving the demo begins by controlling Aiden, the spirit. The little-used motion functionality of the PlayStation3 controller is used to move him around the train car, and the two analog sticks are used to interact — two small glowing balls of energy appear on the screen, and you can pull them back and snap them at things, like a slingshot, with the sticks. Aiden is always tied to Jodie — if you try to move too far, the screen will go grey and blurry.
Aiden can bother other passengers, knocking over someone's cup of coffee, making someone's magazine fly away. Aiden wakes up Jodie. You can clearly read Ellen Page's facial expressions; this one is exasperated. She just wants to sleep. But the train makes an unexpected stop — law enforcement is going to board the train. Aiden floats outside the train to see the cops standing at the tiny station. A police dog barks and starts at the camera. "If you get close to animals, they can feel your presence," Cage says.
The police spot Jodie on the train. Now the player is controlling her. Running to the bathroom, we get the familiar Heavy Rain gameplay — icons appear all around the screen, the buttons that we need to press to interact with objects in the world. Jodie climbs onto the toilet and tries to open the emergency exit on the ceiling. She can't. At this point, the player can help as Aiden by using the analog sticks to blow the hatch.
Jodie climbs on top of the train and a rain-soaked action sequence ensues, where she and Aiden fight the cops. She finally jumps from the train, and Aiden puts a shield around her body to protect her. The next sequence has her running, scrambling through the forest, up and down muddy hills and around trees trying to get away. The Heavy Rain-style series of sequential button presses come into play here, where you play Twister with your fingers trying to hold down several buttons to get the onscreen character to do something precise. The dogs catch up first, and she fights them off with a stick. She climbs up a rock face and hides.
She sees more police, but they haven't spotted her yet. "She moves in a different way because she's trying to stay unseen," Cage says. "We shot many different ways of walking. There are 20 different loops playing at the same time and we blend them together," he says in a demo late that day. "She moves differently on slopes, she touches walls and trees when she's close to them."
Aiden can see characters' auras; an orange one means that he can possess that character. He takes control of a police officer, and the player walks him to a car and gets in it to create a diversion by slamming the car into the guardrail. In the confusion, Jodie steals a motorcycle and rides off. She blasts through the waiting SWAT team with Aiden's shield power.
"They're ready to do anything to capture her," says Cage. "They know how special she is."
The next five minutes involve the player using Aiden's powers to kill every last SWAT team member in the town square while Jodie takes cover. He punches a car and smashes the lights. He possesses a sniper and uses him to take out three other cops before someone puts a bullet in his head and Aiden is thrown out. He possesses another soldier and throws a grenade into the gas station; it goes up in a giant orange fireball. He smashes the clock tower, collapsing the building. He possesses a helicopter pilot and flies the chopper straight into the ground.
Surveying the wreckage, Jodie stands over the prone body of the only surviving officer.
"Tell them to leave me the fuck alone, because next time, I'll kill everyone," she says.
Eliciting this kind of intense performance from the actors requires much more complex technology, Cage says. It's not just facial capture or motion capture — it's everything, all at once. Quantic Dream will put six or seven actors on a stage, all rigged up so that everything gets turned into data — their facial expressions, their voices, their body movements and especially the way they react to each other.
"What you capture is a performance," Cage says. "You capture a moment."
"Kara," a tech demo that Cage showed at Game Developers Conference earlier this year, was the first scene that Quantic Dream ever shot using "performance capture," the proof of concept.
Beyond is thus a big-budget blockbuster of a project, with around 170 people working on it. But it's a very personal project for Cage — it's a rumination on the nature of death, something he has been thinking about since the recent loss of his grandmother, to whom he was very close.
"It made me think about what was on the other side," he said. "I'm not happy with what religions have to say about it, so I made up my own story."
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Syria's 13-Year-Old Martyr
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Deep Weiner
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"Human Kind Cannot Bear Very Much Reality"
I took the weekend off from blogging here and elsewhere to enjoy my annual outing at the beach in California with my best pals from high school and college–something we've been doing on or around Memorial Day for 22 years in a row now. We've even gotten to the t-shirt phase (see below). It's really become just an excuse for our own reality cooking show. So back to business. I »
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Holly Arnold Kinney, who grew up in the Morrison adobe replica of Bent's Fort and now operates The Fort Restaurant, has written a picture book about her special childhood buddy — Sissy Bear, who was rescued by the Arnolds and lived at the Fort from 1963-1982, enchanting many guests at the restaurant. Kinney recalls napping with the cub and how it "kissed' visitors and loved the family's German shepherd, Lobo. The book includes photos and illustrations by Christine Wald. The author will read a story, sign books and talk at 6-7 p.m. Feb. 22 at the Denver Woman's Press Club, 1325 Logan St., Denver. Free admission. Free parking in a lot north of the press club. Guests welcome, 303-839-1519, dwpconline.org.
Based on Shakespeare
Colorado Ballet's performance of "Romeo and Juliet" runs Feb. 16 to 25 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, in the Denver Center for the Performing Arts at 14th and Champa streets downtown, with choreography by Derek Deane, former artistic director of the English National Ballet and music by Sergei Prokovief, performed by the Colorado Ballet Orchestra. Tickets range from $30 to $155. 303-837-8888, ext. 2. Coloradoballet.org.
Day camp
"Colorado Wildlife" is the topic for a Presidents Day Nature Camp at South Platte Park in Littleton for 6- to 10-year-olds, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 19. Cost: $29/district resident, $39/non-residents, #674060. sspr.org, 303-798-5131. (Limited enrollment.)
Eye of the Camera
"Eye of the Camera," presented annually by Littleton's Fine Arts Board, will be exhibited Feb. 16-March 25 at the Littleton Museum, 6028 S. Gallup St., Littleton. The 2018 juror is Gary Reed of Reed Art and Imaging, who selected images exhibited and will announce winners on Feb. 16. 303-795-3950, littletongov.org/museum.
Englewood Library welcomes kids
Included in February programs for children at the Englewood Public Library: "Messy Process Art" (toddler and preschool), 10:30 a.m. Feb. 23; Lego Maniacs, Feb. 24, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 24 — school-aged children stop in to create; under 5 welcome with an adult. Check out story time schedules; add name to email list: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Ceramists at college
Arapahoe Community College at 5900 S. Santa Fe Drive in Littleton will host a Ceramics Workshop with Julia Galloway, professor of ceramics at the University of Montana, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Feb. 24-25 at the ACC Art and Design Center. She will demonstrate making utilitarian pottery-wheel-thrown and hand-built, as well as surface design using slips and resist. Cost: $150/$100 ACC students and programs. RSVP. Coordinator: Katie Caron — email@example.com, 303-797-5948. Proceeds will benefit ACC ceramics students and programs.
Springer to be discussed
"John Springer's Life and His Connection with the Cattlemen's Beef Association" will be Barb Wilkinson's topic for the Highlands Ranch Historical Society, held at the Highlands Ranch Mansion, 9950 E. Gateway Drive, Highlands Ranch, on Feb. 19. Springer was a past owner of the Mansion and prominent Colorado businessman. Come early — tours of the Mansion start at 6.p.m. and the talk starts at 7 p.m. Please pre-register: firstname.lastname@example.com. Free to members, a $2 donation suggested for non-members. Next: Legendary Ladies on March 19.
"Something's Afoot," a musical spoof of Agatha Christie mysteries and 1930s English musicals, will run Feb. 23 to March 25 at Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St. in downtown Littleton. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays. Robert Wells is director. Tickets: $24-$44, townhallartscenter.org, 303-794-2787, ext. 5.
Audubon events
"Backyard Bird Care and Spring Migration Workshop" will be presented by Audubon Society of Greater Denver's Kate Hogan at 10-11 a.m. Feb. 17 at Tagawa Gardens, 7711 S. Parker Rd., Centennial. Join Joey Kellner's monthly Bird Walk from 8-12 on Feb. 24 at Chatfield State Park. Billed as a "fairly easy" hike. No fee, but a state parks pass is required. Denveraudubon.org/events. 303-973-9530.
Goodbye to library fines
The Arapahoe Library District has implemented a "no fine" policy for patrons, which also waives all existing overdue fines for items returned. (A replacement cost will be assessed for items not returned within 30 days of due date.) Arapahoelibraries.org, 303-LIBRARY.
MOA Design and Build
Applications will be accepted through March 30 for this summer's Design and Build Art Apprenticeships at the Museum Outdoor Arts in Englewood. Open to graduates and graduate-bound art majors, with a summer-long studio experience and stipend. See moaonline.org.
Orchestra performance
"Great Music from the Movies" will be the Littleton Symphony Orchestra's program at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 23, at Littleton United Methodist Church, 5894 S. Datura St., Littleton. "Red Violin," "Schindler's List," "2001: A Space Odyssey," Harry Potter" and more films provide soundtracks for the concert. Tickets: littletonsymphony.org, 303-933-6824.
CORE gallery
Jeanette Chinelli's "Reinventing the Chair" and Terrilynn Moore's "Working from the Guff: Soul Searching Compositions" are exhibited through Feb. 19 at CORE Gallery, 900 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Hours: noon to 6 p.m. Thursday; 12-9 p.m. Friday; noon-6 Saturday; 1-4 p.m. Sunday. Reception noon-5 p.m. Feb. 16. Coreartspace.com; 303-297-8428.
Black Cube
A recent addition to Englewood's art community, Black Cube's Executive Director Cortney Lane Stell is curator of "10 x," celebrating of 10 years of Artist in Residence program at RedLine, 2350 Arapahoe St., Denver, with works by about 85 artists. Open through April 1. Admission free. Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays. Redlineart.org; 303-296-4448.
`The Electric Baby'
Rick Barbour is director of "The Electric Baby," by Stefanie Zadravec, playing in repertory through May 4 in the Black Box Theatre at the Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Tickets: 720-898-7200, arvadacenter.org/the-electric-baby.
Denver Concert Band
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So why wouldn't you ahead-of-time compile everything? There's a problem: the JVM bytecode emitted by the Compiler contains explicit references to internals of the Clojure language runtime, such as class names and method calls. These internals, while invisible to Clojure source code, have changed slightly with each Clojure release: 1.1, 1.2, and (alpha) 1.3.
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I reset my results for each beta and final release and within a day or two am right back to >98%.
I have >56K junk words and >18K good words in my corpi, with 98.83% accuracy today.
Hey, tribble. If you're still interested in trying this little experiment, I'd be willing to give it a shot.
How would we do that? I would hate to replace my spam/good corpi (corpuses?) with yours and not be able to swap back. Afraid you'd have to walk me through what to do if we tried it?
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"From the get-go, Powerball created a buzz with its unprecedented $25,000 cash prize for the winner," said IL's Powerball director, Dan Flynn. "What we never anticipated was that the motivation of participating teams would evolve from playing to win the cash for themselves to competing to raise money for charities. It was a remarkable and completely organic change of heart. The manner in which the lacrosse community rallied together to celebrate the game and compete for something much bigger than individual or team success was completely inspiring. We were really blown away by that."
There are two significant changes for the 2013 tournament. The first is that the elite "Money Division" will now be the "Charity Division"; all teams in the Charity Division will designate a charity to compete for, with a $25,000 prize up for grabs. Second, with the cash prize now going entirely to charity, NCAA bylaws No. 18.104.22.168 and 12.5.1 state that current college players will be able to participate in the Charity Division.
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Deron Williams hit his shots when it counted.
The star point guard may not have had a great shooting day overall against the Sixers, finishing 5-for-11 from the field, but Williams hit a 3-pointer with 1:04 left and a layup with 40.5 seconds remaining to lift the Nets to a 95-92 win over the 76ers in front of a sellout crowd of 17,732 at the Barclays Center. The victory snapped the Nets' three-game losing streak.
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Millions of dollars of transactions flow through a computer system each day at the First National Bank of Omaha, Neb. With every hour of downtime costing the bank $6.5 million, the facility needed an on-site power system that would not only weather brownouts and power surges, but also produce the maximum amount of uptime. Many uninterruptible power systems (UPSs) promise 99.99% of reliability, which translates into 53 minutes of downtime per year, says Dennis Hughes, the director of property management. But when you're the seventh largest credit card processing facility in the country, power outages are simply not an option. To protect its computers and keep the data center up and running, the bank purchased four 200kW fuel cell units, which promise only 0.31 to 3.18 seconds of downtime per year or seven nines of reliability. These units are installed 15 feet below ground on the first floor of the 200,000-square-foot data center. In addition to the fuel cell array, a UPS system serves as a backup, and the electricity from the grid serves as a third layer of protection.
For clients who demand premium power quality and reliability, fuel cells can provide effective on-site power generation. Fuel cells produce electricity from a chemical reaction, operate like a battery, and have efficiencies of up to 85% when combined with heat recovery. While they may seem like a new technology, they've actually been known to science for more than 150 years. More than 250 stationary fuel cell systems are generating power for industrial applications such as hospitals, and data processing centers worldwide.
Although fuel cells aren't new, the market still faces several barriers to widespread commercialization, and it may take a long time for this technology to become an affordable replacement for more traditional forms of emergency power generation, such as diesel generators, flywheel systems, or battery systems. It could take even longer for fuel cell technology to make inroads into the mainstream, full-time distributed generation market. But increased funding on the federal level could boost the fuel cell industry. President George Bush has committed $322 million to the Department of Energy's 2006 fiscal budget for fuel cell and hydrogen technology programs, which is an increase of $20.5 million over the 2005 budget. The president's budget proposes level funding for fuel cells in power generation applications.
With a proposed appropriations increase for fuel cell technology, electrical contractors and engineers must try to understand fuel cells now so when the industry eventually takes off, they can be ready and waiting for the opportunity. Before your company decides to jump into this market, however, you should know about the current state of the industry, the measures to drive down the cost of the units, the challenges of processing the fuel, the benefits and drawbacks of this technology, and what lies ahead for the market.
Paving the way for commercialization. According to Allied Business Intelligence, Inc., the $40 million stationary fuel cell market will grow to more than $10 billion by 2010. These predictions are supported by Russell Waters, assistant professor of civil, construction, and environmental engineering at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Waters is the author of a 2001 study titled, "The Impact of Fuel Cells on Electrical Contractors," in which he analyzed the initial costs, future energy savings, and future costs of a 200kW fuel cell unit for the Electrical Contracting Foundation.
"When we started this study, the fuel cell market was really hot and people were investing heavily in fuel cell companies," Waters says. "There was a feeling that the market was ready to burst any moment."
The fuel cell market, however, didn't take off as expected. Manufacturers hoped to have their fuel cell units out in the market in 2001, but it didn't happen. Waters says that after having the luxury of some hindsight, he realized that the fuel cell market wasn't ready for full-scale commercialization due to issues with processing fuel and cost.
Since Waters conducted his study four years ago, however, some manufacturers have taken steps to reduce the cost of fuel cell units and improve the technology. Pierre Rivard, president of Canada-based Hydrogenics, says his company has made progress on the cost, performance, and the business development sides over the past two years. The manufacturer currently customizes its fuel cell units for each client rather than mass producing them due to each customer's diverse needs and requirements as well as the low volume. But over the past few months, the manufacturer has begun to standardize its core technology, establish certain power ranges, and deploy its units in many different areas and industries, such as the light mobility market. Rivard says his company is also focusing on reserve backup power in the stationary fuel cell market, which has a different need than the continuous power market, which caters to the electrical grid.
"In the reserve backup power market, you're displacing diesel generator sets or batteries with zero-emission equivalents," Rivard says. "We have an advantage over batteries in that we can last a lot longer. For many applications where you need to have backup power for more than half an hour, it's very tough to compete with the fuel cell and hydrogen technology."
Hydrogenics, like the other fuel cell manufacturers, however, still faces barriers to commercialization, such as the hydrogen refueling structure, streamlining the regulations, minimizing the hurdles to installation, and of course, driving down costs.
The price of premium power. The most expensive kilowatt hour is the one you can't get, says Bob Rose, executive director of the U.S. Fuel Cell Council, a trade association for the fuel cell industry.
Because of the high value placed on premium power, fuel cells can provide an environmentally friendly and efficient solution for backup power for data centers and manufacturing facilities.
Right now, however, fuel cells are expensive, and Rose says the price reflects the low volume. For example, the plastic membrane that's used inside the fuel cell sells for $500 per square foot in small quantities in the fuel cell industry, but for only $50 per square foot in a fertilizer plant due to its widespread use in the manufacturing process.
"We need to develop a market big enough so that big-time suppliers have an interest in negotiating prices," Rose says. "The technology is new enough that cost reduction options can help yield a lot of benefit, payoff, and bang for the buck."
Most manufacturers currently build their units in-house, but some companies are experimenting with outsourcing, Rose says. Another way to decrease the cost of production is to reduce the number of components, which in turn decreases the amount of labor hours spent on the unit. Ultimately, however, manufacturers need to find applications that will allow them to have a sufficient volume of units to bring down the cost.
"As we've seen with most industries, as the volume doubles, the cost is cut in half," Rivard says. "This is something witnessed in all industries from semiconductors to electronic appliances."
Hydrogenics has managed to reduce the cost of the fuel cell units by 50% each year over the past three years, Rivard says. The manufacturer's pricing now ranges from $5,000/kW to $10,000/kW. Iowa State's Waters forecasts that once manufacturers are able to increase their production quantities, they'll be able to get the cost of a fuel cell unit down to $1,000/kW. Even at this reduced rate, however, a fuel cell unit will still cost two to three times as much as a diesel powered generator, which typically costs between $300/kW and $500/kW.
"There is a huge cost differential between fuel cells and some of the more traditional ways of producing backup power," Waters says. "With government incentives, the right gas and electricity prices, and wider adoption, fuel cells can work out financially at $2,000/kW. The magic number that would really make fuel cells sell is $1,000/kW."
Waters says he forecasts that fuel cell units will follow a pricing curve like any other technology. For example, he remembers a story about a store in England that sold VCRs for $4,000 to $5,000 when they first came out on the market in the '70s. Within the past three decades, the price has dropped to about $50 to $70. Similarly, once the fuel cell companies are able to ramp up their level of manufacturing, they'll also be able to drive down the cost of the units.
Fueling a fuel cell. A carbonate fuel cell converts a hydrocarbon fuel, such as natural gas, into electricity without the combustion of the fuel. Because hydrogen isn't available as a free state commonly found in nature, fuel cell manufacturers must manufacture the fuel from other substances, namely water, which is 66% hydrogen, or natural gas, which is 76% hydrogen.
"A fuel cell needs fuel," Waters says. "I wouldn't call this a disadvantage but a reality. The problem is that you can't just hook up to the hydrogen pipeline. It takes a lot of filtering and processing to purify the hydrogen before it hits the fuel cell."
Manufacturers often break down natural gas, extract the hydrogen, and filter out such contaminants as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and sulfur through a process called reforming. Vehicular applications, however, are able to use water as a fuel through reverse electrolysis. In this process, hydrogen is created from the water without the need for any purification. While some stationary applications are running on hydrogen through reverse electrolysis, the majority of units operate on hydrogen derived from natural gas, Rose says.
Fuel cells can also run on bottled hydrogen, methanol, diesel, biogas, coal gas, coal mine methane, and propane. Some of the fuel cell family members were developed as coal gas strategies in the '70s. For example, molten carbonate fuel cells use carbonate as an electrolyte (Table). While the average U.S. fossil fuel plant burns coal at an efficiency of 33%, a carbonate fuel cell can reach a fuel efficiency of 45% to 50% when using coal gas and other methane-based fuels. The efficiency of the fuel cells is also dependent on the type of technology. While low-temperature fuel cells, such as PEM and phosphoric acid fuel cells, require an external reformer to filter out contaminants, high-temperature fuel cells, such as molten carbonate and solid oxide fuel cells, have an internal reforming process and can generate electricity directly from a hydrocarbon fuel.
Ups and downs.. Fuel cells have an advantage over other distributed generation technologies because they're electrochemical devices that rely on chemistry rather than combustion.
"They are inherently more efficient than burning a fuel," Rose says. "In most cases, it's hydrogen and oxygen, and the only byproducts are water, heat, and useful energy. The electrochemical nature of a fuel cell makes it fundamentally a better strategy for the energy future than any kind of combustion system."
Because fuel cells are powered by hydrogen and don't burn a fuel, they have zero emissions and produce minimal pollution. The first commercially available fuel cell power plants create less than 20 grams of pollutants per MWh, compared to more than 11,388 grams per MWh for an average fossil-fueled plant.
Rivard views the relative simplicity of a fuel cell as another key advantage. Unlike conventional engines with multiple moving parts, a fuel cell is quieter and simpler to maintain.
Fuel cell systems are also scalable and can be customized to fit the individual needs of each client. For example, a single fuel cell produces less than 1W of power, but each fuel cell system consists of many individual units. Thus, a user can combine 200kW fuel cell units to generate more than 1MW of maximum capacity.
"That adds to the inherent reliability of the system," Rose says. "If you have 20 cells in a stack and one cell isn't working, the other 19 probably will and you probably won't even notice a difference."
While cost is the primary barrier to commercialization, the technology also faces another fundamental disadvantage — a limited lifespan. The reliability of fuel cell systems hasn't been fully tested for a long period of time, Waters says. When conducting his research, he used a study from the Department of Defense, which installed fuel cells in 35 different locations around the country and measured their performance. For stationary power applications, users would need to see about 20,000 hours of operation to make their initial investment worthwhile.
"Fuel cells need to be able to operate for four or five years continuously," Waters says. "From what I'm hearing, the fuel cells are not quite to that level of operation."
Rose says it takes time to produce a record of reliability. And the more time that goes by, the higher the benchmark for success is raised. A decade ago, the electric utilities wanted fuel cell units that could operate for 40,000 hours, but now some of them are trying to reach a milestone of 80,000 hours.
Opportunities for electrical contractors and engineers. A fuel cell power plant consists of a fuel cell stack module and various fuel handling and processing equipment, such as pipes, blowers, and electrical interface equipment like inverters. A stationary fuel cell installation typically relies on two or three technicians with an additional support staff of about five or six software engineers and code experts. To install a fuel cell, the technicians must prepare the ground and the connection to the utilities, provide electrical input to the refueler, and connect the fuel cell output to the grid. A stationary fuel cell installation would also require troubleshooting from mechanical, software, and electrical engineers. Electrical engineers are often responsible for sizing the electrical loads of the system, determining the emergency power load, and figuring out the best sized unit to serve the load.
"Fuel cells might be a little more complicated than some of the other systems," Waters says. "There is a lot of heat produced off of them and there's a chance of tying into your building's thermal system for some additional savings. That may fall a little bit out of the line of a traditional electrical engineer."
At this time, no one industry is in control of installing and maintaining fuel cells. Because they're gas-powered devices that produce electricity, other trades such as mechanical contractors have pursued this industry. Electrical contractors, however, should view fuel cells as an electrical device that just happens to be hooked up to a gas source. Waters feels that electrical contractors can gain an edge over other trades because they have experience installing and reselling a similar technology — diesel generator sets.
"Electrical contractors should try to follow more of the diesel generator market where you have your supplier that sells the generator but then the contractor buys and resells it to the owner," Waters says. "This is a way for them to get some of the profit off selling the equipment and get involved in the maintenance side of it."
Waters said during the Department of Defense study the manufacturers involved with these early projects hired electrical contractors to prepare for the installation of the fuel cells. While the contractors installed the concrete pad and ran conduits to power the fuel cell unit, the manufacturers were responsible for bringing the fuel cell unit in, setting it in place, and connecting it.
Rose says that because fuel cells are an electrical technology, electrical contractors will have a good opportunity to break into the installation and maintenance side of the market. He also expects the trend to shift to merchant manufacturing rather than having engineers on-site.
"I don't think there's a question that this is an area that should provide jobs and opportunities in the future," he says.
Hoagland Electric, a Fort Wayne, Ind.-based electrical contracting firm, is one contractor that would like to add fuel cell installations to its list of specialties, which include commercial, industrial, design/build, and 24-hour emergency service. President Dan Hoagland has contacted the major fuel cell manufacturers and is committed to investing the time, money, and training necessary to become an installer or dealer. When he is able to break into the market, he would like to ensure that his electricians provide a quality installation in order to give the fuel cell market a good name.
But at this time, rather than hiring outside firms, Hydrogenics has hired an inside team of electricians and engineers with varying skill sets. The manufacturer currently has 24 electricians and 15 engineers on staff. When these employees are brought on board, they receive a substantial amount of hands-on training and learn about hydrogen safety. They then join a team of technicians to learn how to assemble and install a fuel cell.
Rivard, who hires electricians who have completed a three-year course at a post-secondary institution, says having an inside team of technicians has many benefits.
"The more that experienced people work together, the faster you get the projects on track in terms of budget and delivery," he says. "You also get better ideas and products in the end."
Future of fuel cells. Without a crystal ball, engineers and contractors must sit still and wait for the full-scale commercialization of the technology. When looking into the future, Rose envisions a blending of various renewable generating technologies and hydrogen generation technology.
"The wind doesn't always blow and the sun doesn't always shine, and storing electricity as electrons is kind of hard," Rose says. "A lot of people see hydrogen as a better storage mechanism. A lot needs to get worked out, and you have to look at the economics of those things as well as the technologies."
Researchers have already figured out a way to generate hydrogen from solar power, and solar refueling stations are currently up and running in California. But the economics of it may restrict commercialization. Rose says the nation needs to drop the cost of solar and wind power, get higher efficiency electrolyzer systems, and make improvements in hydrogen storage.
"A lot of the challenges with fuel cells are not based on the fuel cell themselves, they are getting the fuel and storing it fuel affordably," Rose says.
Rivard says he sees great potential for fuel cells because they can cater to all of the energy needs in society, from laptops to district power to busses to cars.
"It won't be a sudden transition or a revolution but rather a gradual evolution," he says. "I think fuel cells offer tremendous potential."
While the fuel cell market may not explode overnight, electrical professionals should have a solid understanding of this technology in the event that they're called upon to specify or install one. You may not get to work on such a large-scale project as the First National Bank data center, but you could discover an opportunity to learn about this technology, gain hands-on experience, and turn a significant profit by getting an early jump on the market. One day, you may even find that as the nation moves to more of a hydrogen economy, fuel cells will power the car you drive, the home you live in, and the place you work.
Sidebar: How Does a Fuel Cell Work?
Fuel cells use an electrochemical process to convert the chemical energy of a fuel into electricity, heat, and water. Although they operate like batteries, they never run down. Fuel cells continue to produce energy as long as fuel is supplied to the cell. The fuel processor converts a fuel such as raw natural gas into hydrogen-rich gas and extracts such contaminants as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. The power generator then combines hydrogen and oxygen into water and creates DC electricity. Lastly, the power conditioner converts the DC electricity into usable AC electricity.
Sidebar: A Fuel Cell-Powered Home
You can wash your dishes, clean your clothes, and watch TV in this one-bedroom home in Mobile, Ala. The only difference between this 500-square-foot house and other local residences is that it's built inside a laboratory at the University of South Alabama, and is powered entirely by a 5kW fuel cell.
The Department of Energy awarded Dr. Mohammad Alam, chair of electrical and computer engineering at the University of South Alabama, and his research team a $3.5 million grant to study the use of fuel cells in residential applications. The team spent four months constructing the home, and a professor attended a two-week training session to learn how to install the fuel cell unit.
"It turns out that with a 5kW fuel cell, you can basically satisfy the general power requirements of a typical home," Alam says. "There will be times when the power demand will go way above 5kW, and during those times, you'll have to have some type of backup power supply to satisfy the demand."
The $55,000 fuel cell supplies 5kW of power continuously, but to satisfy peak demand periods, it can provide up to 10kW of power for a total of 20 minutes. Alam says the average power demand in a typical home is less than 3kW, but during the morning and evening, energy use can skyrocket due to the heavy use of appliances. To monitor the energy consumption in the fuel cell-powered home, the students and faculty installed a smart energy management and control system. This system will monitor all the activities in the house, turn off lights in unoccupied rooms, and delay the operation of the washer or dryer after peak demand periods.
To simulate a real-world application, the research team collected data from 40 homes to generate a typical user load profile, which shows power usage levels during different times of the day. The University of South Alabama research team has received funding from the Department of Energy for Phase 3 of the project, in which the team will look at microgrid neighborhoods, which include five groups of 10 homes. For an earlier phase of the research project, the six electrical engineering, chemical, and software engineering graduate students simulated the effect of a 50kW fuel cell on a microgrid community of 10 homes.
Due to the cost of fuel cells, Alam says he doesn't anticipate that they'll be widely installed in the residential market anytime soon, but he does see fuel cells as a possibility for the future.
"In 15 or 20 years, it will become economically viable to power a home with a fuel cell," Alam says. "In addition to generating electricity, if you use the heat, which is generated as a byproduct, it will become much more cost effective."


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