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Buzz Aldrin & Steve Wozniak Plan Fuel Cell Hummer Drive to South Pole

SEATTLE, WA, FEBRUARY 25 - Confirming a report that first surfaced last summer, retired Astronaut Buzz Aldrin and Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak are planning to drive a fuel cell-powered Hummer across Antarctica from the McMurdo Station on Ross Island to the South Pole this December.

Verification came last week from an unlikely source, a couple of sentences midway through a Feb. 20 press release by Neah Power Systems, Inc., of nearby Bothell, WA announcing that Col. Aldrin had been named to the company’s board of directors. Neah is developing what are described as silicon-based direct methanol micro fuel cells for portable electronic devices.

“The trip will be part of a research expedition slated for December 2007, and is to be filmed in 3D for director James Cameron,” added the release. Cameron directed “Terminator” and “Terminator 2;" “Aliens;” and “True Lies,” among others.

A fact sheet provided subsequently by the Santa Monica, CA-based organizers of ZERO SOUTH - for Zero Emissions and South Pole - says the hydrogen-powered fuel cell Hummer H1, together with three other production vehicles running, respectively, on biodiesel, ultra-lean gasoline and the latest lithium battery technology, will travel 1024 miles from McMurdo Station on Ross Island, on the edge of Antarctica, to the South Pole.

Aldrin and Wozniak will be joining a team of Caltech, JPL and NASA scientists on this trip, according to the fact sheet, “searching for extreme forms of life and simulating future human exploration on Mars.”

(A more detailed story will appear in the upcoming March issue of “The Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Letter”.)

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