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Gold/Mining/Energy : Global Thermoelectric - SOFC Fuel cells (GLE:TSE) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bob Fairchild who wrote (4873)	3/23/2000 8:05:00 AM
From: Sal Pugliese	Respond to of 6016

Ballard is on the home page of stock house... This means GLE will definitely move upwards todays... SHfn /- An announcement by Ballard Power [BLDP] might fuel a rise in its share price WWW.STOCKHOUSE.CA

To: Bob Fairchild who wrote (4873)	3/23/2000 9:40:00 AM
From: Ray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6016

Yet another method for producing Hydrogen is from bacterial action -- which can be surprisingly efficient. But, I assume that this method, too, leaves CO2 as a by product. However, CO2 can be sequestered effectively either by pumping it into deep reservoirs that can contain it --just like natural gas has been contained for geologic time periods -- or by converting it to solid carbonate and burying it. The main problem for Hydrogen as a fuel is having a method for safely, compactly storing it on vehicles, homes, etc. For a long time now, Metal Hydrides have been a promising solution -- except for having capacity of only about 2% by weight, combined with the costly metals needed. No longer! A small company, Energy Conversion Devices (ENER) has developed a material that stores about 7% by weight -- along an effective system for evolving the Hydrogen from this material. Their H2 storage tanks fill in under 2.5 minutes! It is now possible to fuel even Internal Combustion Engines (ICEs) economically with Hydrogen! The Hydrogen economy is going to happen much sooner than earlier predicted.

To: Bob Fairchild who wrote (4873)	3/23/2000 1:51:00 PM
From: russet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6016

Methanol and ethanol from corn and other crops becomes a cycle for CO2 though,...a renewable energy source. Burning buried oil deposits results in a net increase in CO2 above existing levels. Ray mentioned turning CO2 into carbonates and burying it. I saw that presented in a seminar, "Zero emission coal" at the CIM in Toronto recently. They said you could take CO2 and react it with the magnesium oxide (MgO) in silicate rocks such as serpentinite to form magnesite (MgCO3) which is a stable rock that can be buried safely. This reaction currently requires a lot of energy, even when catalyzed, but could be considered if the electricity and hydrogen was being generated from coal or oil sources from large central plants. A key feature in these plants are fuel cells used to strip the hydrogens from the coal and generate electrical power without any emissions into the air. Test facilities are being produced as we flap our fingers in an international venture spearheaded by the U.S. government, the coal industry, power companies and Los Alomos National Laboratory.