Hello again. Yes, it’s still great weather here. It’s the final day of the show today, so its back to the heat and humidity of Houston tomorrow for me, back to the rain of the Pacific North West for Bruce.
Like yesterday, today had a series of concurrent technical sessions, as well as the exhibit hall being open most of the day. Again, Bruce was around the exhibit hall while I sampled some of the technical papers.
The most interesting papers were on a novel cell architecture (a fuel cell ”stick”) and a very detailed presentation of SPFC degradation mechanisms by Fz Julich, which allowed me to understand a few things I often hear.
There was also another poster session, that’s a good way of informally talking to the people who are doing the development work, and a good way to learn things.
Back in the hall “traffic” but the booth was a bit slower than the previous two days, but that’s understandable as it’s the last day. Interestingly we had a few people come by for repeat visits, they’d clearly been thinking about what we’d told them first time around and came back for more information.
By the time I got to the booth this morning, Bruce had put out all the remaining “give-away’s” and started to pack all the excess brochures and sample back into the box for shipping, that was a great idea until we needed a Japanese language Thermiculite 866 brochure, which was right at the bottom of the box !!
As it was quiet I got to walk around the show a bit more, while wandering around I just managed to avoid getting run down by a guy riding the battery powered bicycle around the floor, it’s a really ingenious piece of engineering, they also had fuel cell/battery hybrid motorcycle on show. It’s interesting all the different things that you can see around this show, it’s not just cell developers.
The last hour or so was the predictable count-down to the end of the show, punctuated only by a brief break for free beer just before the end.
To wrap this whole thing up, I’d say it’s been a really useful show for us. It has also given us a chance to look at how the industry is developing and talk to other potential component suppliers. One of the last tasks for Bruce was to book our booth for next year; hopefully Palm Springs, California in November 2009 will be another great show. I’m just making my case now to be the one manning the booth!!
Thanks for reading my blog over the week, if you have any questions or comments please get in touch at sbond@flexitallic.com
Cheers
Steve
Like yesterday, today had a series of concurrent technical sessions, as well as the exhibit hall being open most of the day. Again, Bruce was around the exhibit hall while I sampled some of the technical papers.
The most interesting papers were on a novel cell architecture (a fuel cell ”stick”) and a very detailed presentation of SPFC degradation mechanisms by Fz Julich, which allowed me to understand a few things I often hear.
There was also another poster session, that’s a good way of informally talking to the people who are doing the development work, and a good way to learn things.
Back in the hall “traffic” but the booth was a bit slower than the previous two days, but that’s understandable as it’s the last day. Interestingly we had a few people come by for repeat visits, they’d clearly been thinking about what we’d told them first time around and came back for more information.
By the time I got to the booth this morning, Bruce had put out all the remaining “give-away’s” and started to pack all the excess brochures and sample back into the box for shipping, that was a great idea until we needed a Japanese language Thermiculite 866 brochure, which was right at the bottom of the box !!
As it was quiet I got to walk around the show a bit more, while wandering around I just managed to avoid getting run down by a guy riding the battery powered bicycle around the floor, it’s a really ingenious piece of engineering, they also had fuel cell/battery hybrid motorcycle on show. It’s interesting all the different things that you can see around this show, it’s not just cell developers.
The last hour or so was the predictable count-down to the end of the show, punctuated only by a brief break for free beer just before the end.
To wrap this whole thing up, I’d say it’s been a really useful show for us. It has also given us a chance to look at how the industry is developing and talk to other potential component suppliers. One of the last tasks for Bruce was to book our booth for next year; hopefully Palm Springs, California in November 2009 will be another great show. I’m just making my case now to be the one manning the booth!!
Thanks for reading my blog over the week, if you have any questions or comments please get in touch at sbond@flexitallic.com
Cheers
Steve
