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Technology Stocks : Ballard Power -world leader zero-emission PEM fuel cells -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkeye who wrote (2198)	4/5/1998 3:22:00 AM
From: mozek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5827

Does anyone know the answer to a couple questions? 1. From all I can find, Ballard makes hydrogen, methanol, or natural gas fuel cells. What I haven't found is a gasoline powered fuel cell like the one Plug Power is planning to make in the next few years. Do they have one? 2. If they don't have one, are there any studies or official estimates of what kind of investment & time it would take to scale our methanol infrastructure for cars? It seems that a gasoline powered, efficient cell would be just the thing needed to prime for a revolution in the auto industry. Thanks, Mike

To: Hawkeye who wrote (2198)	4/6/1998 11:59:00 AM
From: Lee	Respond to of 5827

Hawkeye, ..Re:<<Management has a superb history of meeting their published goals and most times has them pretty well in the bag beforehand.>> Thanks very much for your reply. I did buy today partly based on the statement above, partly based on current ratio of 9.86 and zero debt and mostly because, being an ME, I've always wondered why we aren't already using fuel cells everywhere. By the way, if I was going to flip it I would have bought in in Oct. One other very interesting point is that with the coming de-regulation in the utility industry, I don't think that stationary power plants can rely on historical ways of doing business going forward. JMHO but competition should bring extraordinary new methods of both financing new capacity and utilizing/upgrading existing, not to mention new alternatives. Basics of competitive supply/demand opportunities. Regards, Lee