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To: Jim Oravetz who wrote (3)	12/5/2000 7:36:30 AM
From: Jim Oravetz	Respond to of 49

AMERICAN FLYWHEEL SYSTEMS, TRINITY FLYWHEEL POWER MERGE; CALPINE c*POWER, INC. IS FIRST STRATEGIC PARTNER SEATTLE, WA, December 5, 2000 - Two privately held companies, American Flywheel Systems. Inc. (AFS) and Trinity Flywheel Power (Trinity), today merged and created AFS Trinity Power Corporation (AFS Trinity) to address the $12 billion market for power technology serving the digital economy. Headquarters of the combined company will be in Seattle and most manufacturing and R&D will be located in Livermore, California, outside San Francisco; the company has no plans to relocate other R&D programs now operating on the East Coast, according to Edward W. Furia, who is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the combined company. Former AlliedSignal executive Joel Levinthal is President and Chief Operating Officer of the combined company, and Trinity co-founder John Eastwood is Senior Vice President of AFS Trinity and General Manager of Livermore Operations snip.... afstrinity.com also, semi-OT Flywheel Containment Testing Test Devices is currently co-chair of the Flywheel Containment Working Group, a technology consortium sponsored by the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) and the Southern Coalition for Advanced Transportation (SCAT). This consortium is tasked to design and test flywheel containment structures; analyze failure modes of complex composite systems; enhance flywheel testing safety, and ultimately help to design and qualify safe containment structures for commercial flywheel energy storage systems. testdevices.com Jim