TMoore: Thanks for the article. Speaking of various categories, MIT's Nov. Dec. magazine entitled "Technology Review" has a small article on fuel cells which I happen to think are strong contenders to supercede ICE's(Internal Comustion Engines) by the latter part of the next decade. Page 21, this article, entitled Cheaper Fuel Cells states:
"Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are solving a problem that has kept fuel cells prohibitively expensive. Today's fuel cells typically rely on 200 or so slabs of precisely machined graphite electrodes costing about $10 apiece. Oak Ridge materials scientist Ted Besmann has shown that it is possible to make electrodes out of a carbon-fiber composite that costs about one-fifth as much. Besmann has fabricated 3.8 centimeter-diameter electrodes from the composite and aims by year's end to make larger samples for testing by automobile companies."
Sooooo, reading the above makes me think hybrid vehicles(with a small ICE) will probably dominate by 2010. Hybrids? Yup, small ICE for critical situations, Fuel Cells for main power production, a VLNC type battery as an energy sink, and probably some sort of high-performance capacitor as well. Of course, this concept lends itself to more that just cars, eh? Heh! And the speculative companies I think that have the developing product(s) to meet the above needs? VLNC for batteries, BLDPF for fuel cells(as well as a couple of competitors) and MXWL for high-performance capacitors just to name a few.
As for VLNC, those tightening Bollinger bands signify sumthing's about to break.....the question is break to the upside; or the down? ;-)
John~ |
