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Technology Stocks : FuelCell Energy - going green -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Ox who wrote (103)	6/9/2014 11:52:02 AM
From: bruwin	1 Recommendation Recommended By The Ox Respond to of 211

This is not about a Fuel Cell, per say, but it is about the "green" aspect of alternative energy .... We read and hear much about the use and conversion of solar and wind energy, and occasionally about wave and tidal energy. But these sources can have an unreliable component ... the sun can be obscured, the wind may not be blowing sufficiently, the waves may be flat and calm, and tides generally have a limited range. And that's what's problematic about using these to provide a reliable source of generated power to a country's Electricity Grid. Any country's grid has to be able to maintain a Constant Base Electricity supply to satisfy its Base Load. Fluctuations in that Base supply can be problematic. But there is another source of uninterrupted and constant movement whose kinetic energy can be translated into useful power, and that is the Ocean Current. Ocean currents are always on the move, nothing stops them, nothing obscures them, nothing depletes them, they're always there. Enormous Rivers in the sea. Put a revolving element in their path and it will turn it indefinitely and thereby generate Reliable power.

To: The Ox who wrote (103)	6/9/2014 12:19:34 PM
From: Dwayne Hines	1 Recommendation Recommended By The Ox Respond to of 211

Sometimes the big moves in a company have already occurred by the time "watch and see" investors get in. That's the obvious downside of watching because precise timing is hard to do.