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To: Oak Tree who wrote (39047)	7/16/2001 12:06:14 PM
From: Jim Willie CB	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 65232

read this on ENER, then conclude you are doing what most WallStreeters do: looking one inch or one quarter forward sure, it is a speculative stock but what is hydrogen storage worth? what is writeable DVD worth? what is nextgen flash memory worth? when rolling blackouts strike next, check this stock let me know what you think of this lineup of patents the sales has begun to escalate as they emerge from an R&D house to a genuine royalty horder borrowed from Tony Sagami at www.tonysagami.com I hope he dont mind, and gets a new subscriber sharp guy / jw Energy Conversion Devices (ENER) A Cornucopia of Alternative Energy Breakthroughs This company has 6 products ready to turn the alternative energy world on its head. If one of these products succeeds, you’ll triple your money in nothing flat. If 2 or more take off, you’ll need a wheelbarrow to carry your profits in. How does that sound? This company has patents on 6 revolutionary technologies that will permanently alter the way the world is powered. I’m not talking about experimental pie-in-the-sky prototypes either. This company has been around for 40 years and all its products are in the early stages of commercial use. The prospects for each technology look so promising that any one of them alone could give you a 100% return in the next 12 months...and maybe much, much more. And that is if just only one of this company’s technologies is a commercial success. If two or more become winners, you’re could make as much as 10 to 20 times on your investment. The company I am talking about is Energy Conversion Devices, Nasdaq symbol ENER. Energy Conversion Devices is a high tech research lab that is a mini-mutual fund of alternative energy solutions. ENER investors own patents on some of the most exciting (and lucrative) technologies in the world. There are six which could make you rich. 1. Metal hydrogen "sponges" for fuel cells. Fuel cells turn hydrogen into energy, but hydrogen is awkward to store and transport. Hundreds of companies are racing to conquer the fuel cell market, but ENER will be a winner no matter who wins the fuel cell race. Like Levi Strauss, ENER is selling the tools instead of digging for gold. ENER has developed "sponges" that hold hydrogen in a solid state and convert it into gas as needed. This solves the challenges of hauling around sloshing liquid hydrogen and eliminates the danger of highly explosive hydrogen in the gas form. 2. Harnessing the sun with solar panels. Solar panels work like a charm. The only problem is that solar panels cost so much that they have yet to become a cost-effective energy solution. Well, ENER has a patented manufacturing process that slashes the cost of producing solar panels. I’m not the only person impressed. The U.S. Air Force has signed up for a two-year contract; the MIR space station used ENER solar panels; and the Department of Energy gave ENER one of its 5 prestigious Bright Light awards for its solar panels innovations. 3. The portable world needs batteries. Cell phones, Personal Digital Assistants, MP3 players, camcorders, laptop computers, and you name it. Today’s mobile person needs batteries to power his or her portfolio electronic devices. The odds are high that ENER-patented technology powers those portable devices. In fact, about one billion batteries based upon an ENER patent were sold last year. Unlike the old wave of batteries based upon nickel cadmium, ENER’s batteries are made from nickel hydride. NiHM batteries can store twice as much energy, don’t have the low drain "memory" shortcoming, and don’t contain any environmentally hazardous materials. Ever try getting rid of an old lead acid battery lately? ENER has signed licensing agreements with almost all of the world’s battery makers and receives ongoing royalty payments from 17 of them. And has the world uses more portable devices, ENER is going to see billions of additional batteries and rake in a fortune. 4. Look for re-writable DVDs to replace CD-ROMs. You probably heard of DVD movies. The advantage of DVD disk to CD-ROM disks is that DVD disks can hold 7-8 times more data. That makes it very likely that re-writable DVD will replace CD-ROM on all computers and VCR tapes. You guessed it -- ENER holds key patents on re-writable DVD. The major manufacturers of DVDs -- Sony, Matsushita, TDK, Hitachi, and Polaroid -- have all licensed ENER’s technology. Intel and Microsoft made a fortune because their parts were included in almost every computer sold in the world. I expect ENER’s re-writable DVD patent to produce the same results: a royalty on every computer sold in the world. That will be a very big piece of business. 5. The portable world needs flash memory. Flash memory is that type of memory that is saved even when the power source is turned off, such as the clock on your VCR. Flash memory is to portable devices what hard drives are to computers. You name it: camcorders, digital cameras, PDAs, cell phones --they all need lots of flash memory. Given the world’s appetite for portal devices, the demand for flash memory is going to explode. ENER has the patent on a new type of memory -- called Ovonic Unified Memory -- that will make flash memory completely obsolete. If ENER is right, this profit potential could approach billions of dollars per year. Don’t take my word for it. Intel has licensed the distribution rights to ENER’s Ovonic United Memory because it sees the same HUGE potential that I do. So why hasn’t Energy Conversion Devices shot straight to the moon yet? Because by emphasizing R&D over profits, ENER has consistently lost money in the past. But all that may be about to change in a big, big way. Revenues are exploding, jumping 137% from $7.4 million to $17.7 million in the last quarter. The losses are quickly shrinking too, falling from 84 cents a share last year to a projected 35 cents in 2001. It is just a matter of time -- a short amount of time -- before Energy Conversion Devices starts raking in big bucks. ENER is unique because it has both a high long-term Alpha and a high short-term Alpha. In the most current rankings, ENER is #18 for one year Alpha and #5 for one month Alpha. That double whammy should tell you that Energy Conversion Devices is ready to move much higher. It is, however, a very volatile stock with a standard deviation of 84.1%. That’s why you may only want to buy a small amount of shares.