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Microcap & Penny Stocks : MECHANICAL TECHNOLOGY (MKTY) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: billkirn who wrote (296)	7/15/1999 5:15:00 PM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542

From: Strategic Planning for the Hydrogen Economy: The Hydrogen Commercialization Plan January 1998 ttcorp.com Ultimately, hydrogen will be available to each residence and business through a pipeline infrastructure, analogous to the present natural gas pipeline network. Hydrogen will be used to supply electricity to each home and business by locally sited fuel cells which provide the electricity as well as space heating, with no air or water pollution, in a quiet unobtrusive manner compatible with our daily environment. Such a distributed generation system may eliminate the need for large, central power plants and provide electric utilities with increased flexibility in the design of their systems. Indeed, natural gas-powered stationary fuel cells are already sold as environmentally clean distributed cogeneration power systems, serving as a test bed and precursor to future hydrogen-powered cogeneration systems. Please read the entire report at ttcorp.com

To: billkirn who wrote (296)	7/16/1999 11:11:00 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Respond to of 542

Bill, Are you up at all on how MKTY's business other than fc's is doing? This is of concern to me as I understand its share of plugpower is only 40%. Thanks. Bill

To: billkirn who wrote (296)	7/17/1999 8:18:00 PM
From: Fun-da-Mental#1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542

Bill Kirn, I think I can give some approximate answers to your questions about fuel consumption. First of all, I think the existing fuel distribution system will have no problem keeping up with home electrical generating requirements, since the amount of energy required to heat a house in winter is more than the energy required for electrical uses, and there is already a distribution system in place to provide home furnace fuel. Granted there's no natural gas distribution system in the southern states, but if fuel cells can run off gasoline or heating oil then that can be easily distributed by tanker trucks. More specifically, 1 kilowatt hour = 3.6 MegaJoules. The energy consumption of a typical house is 10 or 20 kwh per day, so that's about 50 MJ. This is about the amount of energy provided by burning a liter of gasoline. However not all this energy can be converted into electricity by a fuel cell, (a) because the fuel cell uses only the hydrogen part of the fuel and not the carbon, and (b) because the fuel cell is only 40-50 percent efficient. So a home fuel cell might end up using a couple of gallons of gasoline or oil per day. A gallon of gasoline has about the same energy as 100 cubic feet of natural gas. So a few hundred cubic feet of gas per day is not going to be a problem. These numbers are only approximate, but good enough for our purposes I think. Maybe Sid can give more accurate figures. Fun-da-Mental