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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (139)	6/6/2001 4:50:41 PM
From: craig crawford	Respond to of 1643

>Gold to underpin emerging market currencies - report By: David McKay Posted: 06/06/2001 09:00:00 PM \| © Miningweb 1997-2001 m1.mny.co.za JOHANNESBURG – The World Gold Council (WGC) is investigating using gold in a basket of commodities against which the currencies of emerging market countries can be pegged.

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (139)	6/6/2001 5:04:32 PM
From: craig crawford	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1643

Fuel Cells Picking Up Steam, Offer Power to the People eyeforenergy.com For example, in power generation, Nth Power funds microturbines, and zinc-air and hydrogen fuel cell companies to meet specific distributed generation and power storage applications.'' "When the market price of power pops all over the place and gets to some of the levels that we've seen during peak summer demand, then distributed generation with fuel cells becomes much more economic." (Even at today's sky-high prices, natural gas would cost less than $100 per megawatt-hour to fire up a microturbine and less than $75 per megawatt-hour to run a fuel cell.) For all their allure, fuel cells have a long way to go to reach economic parity: the first fuel cells will cost an estimated $2,500 to $5,000 per kilowatt. But the industry has a secret weapon at work in the marketplace. Automakers are expected to begin flooding the market with fuel cell cars by 2003 and 2004 and the industry is banking on leveraging the efficiencies accompanying this mass production to bring the cost of fuel cell power to around $100 to $300 per kilowatt. You'll see laptops powered by fuel cells no later than next year," promised Charles Call, president and chief executive officer of MesoSystems Technology Inc. (Albuquerque, N.M.). "And once you've scaled the fuel cell for one product, it will be easy to scale it for others." (excerpts) p.s. anyone know how much zinc might be contained in these zinc-air fuel cells? does anyone know the status of silver in fuel cells? how about nickel?