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Technology Stocks : Beacon Power (BCON) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim Oravetz who wrote (33)	6/13/2005 3:45:11 PM
From: Mahatmabenfoo	Respond to of 49

-- Their most recent PR is about a delivery to Betchel of a -- system that MIGHT be part of a new All Electric Ship system. That is years away Thanks, Jim. This seems like a lot of other stocks of that other century (1999) when sales of futurist devices might start any day. I recall when General Electric had a page illustrating Plug Power's home electricity, for which GE was going to provide annual service -- it all seemed like it was "next year" for real (they're still not being offered, 6 years later). What makes the Bubble of 1999 so interesting is not only how many companies had no substance whatsoever, but how many genuinely interesting companies turned out to be so much further from reality than anyone realized. I'm finally waking up to the biggest story of the possible near future being a permanent decline and shortage of fossil fuels. If it's as bad as some of the "peak oil" crowd predict interest in alternatives to oil and natural gas will be topic numero uno for many decades. That would certainly give BCON a role to play, if it really has anything. A problem with energy from sunlight and wind (which would play a part) is their intermittancy -- exactly what I think BCON's flywheels and battery things are supposed to help level out. Mebbe there are already bigger and better financed players than BCON even on the flywheel side -- there must be. This (maybe out of date) article compares flywheels to batteries: powerpulse.net It says one advantage of flywheels over batteries is you can use them over and over again; unlike batteries that are more limited in their number of discharge cycles before they must be replaced. -- MIGHT be part of a new All Electric Ship -- system. That is years away Could that be the same thing American Semiconductor and General Atomics seem to be competing on (both have contracts with the Navy for superconducting motors for an electric ship). But as you say, years away... I guess 1999 thinking dies hard! :) - Charles