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Successful theories typically both accommodate and predict. Most people, however, are more impressed by predictions than by accommodations. When Mendeleev produced a theory of the periodic table that accounted for all sixty [really sixty-two] known elements, the scientific community was only mildly impressed. When he went on to use his theory to predict the existence of two unknown elements that were then independently detected, the Royal Society awarded him its Davy Medal, . , Sixty accommodations paled next to two predictions, (Lipton, 1991, p, 134)... 

Production via Biomass Gasification. Advanced Energy Pathways (AEP) Project, Task 4.1 Technology Assessments of Vehicle Fuels and Technologies, Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program, California Energy Commission, UC Davis, Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis). 

I didn t listen a purpose, David at least, not at first. I happened to wake and heard em speak of the brown house on the hill. Then I wanted to hear everything and I listened a purpose after that. Oh, Davy Davy the child cried imploringly, sitting up in the bed and clasping his hands in petition don t do it, Davy don t be a thief to please those wicked men don t go robbing the brown house on the hill. ... 

The importance of Chatt s work was recognized by many awards including the Tilden, Liversidge and Nyholm Lectureships of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Chemical Society Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry, and the Wolf Prize for Chemistry, the first to be awarded to someone resident outside North America. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1961, received its Davy Metal in 1979, and was appointed Commander of the British Empire in 1978. After his retirement from the Unit, he continued to participate in research in the School of Molecular Science and went to the university regularly. He died on the 19th of May 1994. 

The conference organizers from the DOE and ITS-Davis sought to stimulate discussion of key issues and plausible pathways toward a hydrogen transition, rather than seek consensus on a recommended course for the United States. More than 30 speakers made formal presentations, followed by group discussions. The chapters in this book are drawn from these lectures or from the discussions they engendered. They are organized into six groups, as follows ... 

Ken Kurani and his associates at ITS-Davis also paint a very large picture. They see hydrogen FCVs as far more than a successor to the conventional motor vehicle. To them, FCVs could form a system that fully integrates automobility, electricity, and information. This will be accomplished, in part, by the transformation of automobiles from their current design and role as primarily mobility tools. In a technological sense, automobiles will become integrated mobility/electricity/information platforms in a behavioral sense, they will become mobile activity locales, new sites for a range of activities now conducted in homes or business offices. 

Joan Ogden from ITS-Davis takes a step back from automotive manufacturing to address the challenge of cost competitively distributing hydrogen fuel from production sites to vehicle refueling stations. She notes that hydrogen can be produced from a variety of feedstocks with zero or nearzero emissions—at scales suited to households up to entire cities. 

The conference was hosted and organized by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis (ITS-Davis), under the auspices of the US National Research Council s Transportation Research Board - in particular, the standing committees on Energy and Alternative Fuels. 

Ogden, J. (2005). Overview of Hydrogen System Modeling at ITS-Davis. Sandia National Laboratories. 

IF Danielli, IT Davies. Adv Enzymol Relat Subj Biochem 11 35-89, 1951. 

Friends of Wollaston protested to Davy about Faraday s supposed usurpation of Wollaston s research. In subsequent publications Faraday took pains to point out Wollaston s anticipation of the phenomena, and this seemed to smooth all the ruffled feathers but one A few years later when Faraday s friends posted a petition for Faraday s election to the Royal Society, Davy ordered Faraday to take it down. Faraday replied that he had not put it up and that his friends would not withdraw it. Davy then said that he would take it down himself, to which Faraday replied that he would no doubt do what he thought was for the good of the Society. (This, we must note, was the only instance we found of Faraday making a curt comment to Davy.)... 

IT Davies. Prfx ee.dings 2nd Ini, Congress Surface Aclivity, Vtil, 1, Rutterwnrth. London (1957) p. 426,... 

Davies et al. 37) studied the combustion of tin tetraalkyls by static bomb calorimetry, and found that virtually complete combustion can be attained. Analysis of the bomb gases after combustion showed that combustion of the carbon content was from 99.8-100% complete, and the solid combustion product was shown to be Sn02, only small amounts of unburned tin remaining admixed with it. Davies et al. obtained the results given in the table. 

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