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Technology Stocks : Ballard Power -world leader zero-emission PEM fuel cells -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: michael a. rowe who wrote (4931)	1/27/2000 12:53:00 AM
From: blue_chip	Respond to of 5827

Message #4600 from michael a. rowe at Jan 26 2000 10:22PM sofc is it by golly....lets just forget about the extremely long startup time, that was solved anyway when I suggested that the car companies will probably create cars that read your mind and predict when you want to use them....they then start 10 minutes before you need them.....wow thats great technology eh....imagine what something like that would do for the humble toaster also lets just ignore those insanely high operating temperatures...all that extra "high-grade" heat can be used to had onboard coffee/tea makers in cars or even pop corn...because we will all be watching movies as we cruise down the highway soon anyway and zero degradation will occur to these devices due to high temperature either they got that worked out too that was done when they build that prototype Not much difference than a SOFC start up time and a PEM reformer having to warm up before it works, therefore the advantage of the PEM is lost, why pay 10 times more for a power system that does the same thing? Thanks Chip

To: michael a. rowe who wrote (4931)	1/27/2000 12:59:00 AM
From: blue_chip	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5827

To: CH4 who wrote (4593) From: michael a. rowe Wednesday, Jan 26, 2000 7:00 PM ET Reply # of 4601 pems and nitrogen oxides...thats crap its those stupid sofc's and their using gasoline that will not reduce the amount of smog pems on hydrogen are smog free and heres another one of those gle guys in love with carbon monoxide...what is it with you people? water vapour is bad and carbon monoxide is good....i think your all nuts Mike, just thought I'd let you know, in case you didn't, that Ballard is trying to switch to methanol (you know, that nasty stuff thats being banned), also, you may want to look into the US Department of Energy's website to see what they say about Methanol. You may want to check on your assumptions that H2O are the only emissions from a PEM methanol fuel cell system, H20 is not the only emission, there is talk that a PEM running on methanol may not meet the ULEV emissions standards. Chip