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To: Tmoore who wrote (4461)	10/19/1998 5:51:00 PM
From: steve	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27311

Tmoore, Is this the story? nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com steve

To: Tmoore who wrote (4461)	10/20/1998 8:46:00 AM
From: John Curtis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27311

TMoore: Thanks for the article. Speaking of various categories, MIT's Nov. Dec. magazine entitled "Technology Review" has a small article on fuel cells which I happen to think are strong contenders to supercede ICE's(Internal Comustion Engines) by the latter part of the next decade. Page 21, this article, entitled Cheaper Fuel Cells states: "Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are solving a problem that has kept fuel cells prohibitively expensive. Today's fuel cells typically rely on 200 or so slabs of precisely machined graphite electrodes costing about $10 apiece. Oak Ridge materials scientist Ted Besmann has shown that it is possible to make electrodes out of a carbon-fiber composite that costs about one-fifth as much. Besmann has fabricated 3.8 centimeter-diameter electrodes from the composite and aims by year's end to make larger samples for testing by automobile companies." Sooooo, reading the above makes me think hybrid vehicles(with a small ICE) will probably dominate by 2010. Hybrids? Yup, small ICE for critical situations, Fuel Cells for main power production, a VLNC type battery as an energy sink, and probably some sort of high-performance capacitor as well. Of course, this concept lends itself to more that just cars, eh? Heh! And the speculative companies I think that have the developing product(s) to meet the above needs? VLNC for batteries, BLDPF for fuel cells(as well as a couple of competitors) and MXWL for high-performance capacitors just to name a few. As for VLNC, those tightening Bollinger bands signify sumthing's about to break.....the question is break to the upside; or the down? ;-) John~