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Technology Stocks : Ballard Power -world leader zero-emission PEM fuel cells
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To: smw3 who wrote (2476)4/29/1998 10:40:00 AM
From: yard_man  Read Replies (1) of 5827
 
Drop in price of silicon memories is not an apt metaphor. Explain how that kind of miniaturization applies to fuel cells. Furthermore there is nothing impending (even if fuel cells were economic) that could spur the exponential growth in the demand for fuel cells like commodity memory. Apples and orangutans!

Conspiracy theory sounds nice but this is contradictory to "they wouldn't keep the tax credits in place." If PVs were economic other than for niche applications --- potential profits would provide
incentive for folks without any tax credits.

Of course, as the current National Geographic article shows on global warming: The politics precedes the science. There is no unanimous agreement among scientists that such warming is man-made. I'm not saying that this is wrong or right. The government has set policy on CFCs with a large economic cost involved -- that however is a drop in the bucket to rearranging by fiat what sources of energy are going to be available -- the lack of real movement for change from reports of global warming (whether you regard them as strongly supported or weakly supported) should not be surprising given the economic implications. There is a great amount of economic inertia here.

So if you think Oil co.s quashed otherwise (supposedly) economically viable solar energy, why are fuel cells going to succeed (supposing that they do reach the cross-over point, i.e. becoming marginally economic)?
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