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To: Hawkeye who wrote (3748)	1/31/1999 7:06:00 PM
From: Dr. Harvey	Respond to of 5827

Dave Haberman, Chairman of DCHT is president of the California Hydrogen Business Council in 1999.

To: Hawkeye who wrote (3748)	2/1/1999 8:54:00 AM
From: Dr. Harvey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5827

Did you Ballard dudes know that the Cabot Market letter recommended Ballard? Oc course to me he was talking about DCHT! techstocks.com

To: Hawkeye who wrote (3748)	2/1/1999 9:24:00 PM
From: Sid Turtlman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5827

Hawkeye: Wake up! Wake up! Are you and the other Ballard bulls completely asleep? You are sitting there, letting "Dr." Harvey post garbage like this without any criticism? "... the one thing that Ballard posters refuse to address is that ballard is at least two years away from production of their fuel cells whereas DCHT is set to unveil their ready to go product in April. First out of box is going to be very important, especially as Ballard customers turn to DCHT for delivery." Thus it is left to me, someone who isn't even bullish on Ballard, to defend the company. This claim for DCHT is nonsense. DCHT is a two bit penny stock (temporarily selling for six bits) that can't even figure out how to produce an audited financial statement, let alone a commercially ready, mass produced fuel cell for any application. It gives out its shares in 50,000 share chunks to sleazeballs who spam phony "research reports" about it all over the web, hoping to suck in innocent buyers to match the huge quantity of inside sellers. The chance of it having any capabilities remotely approaching Ballard's is about as close to zero as one can get. Compared to DCHT, I consider Ballard underpriced. I don't know how to condemn a stock in stronger language than that.<G>

To: Hawkeye who wrote (3748)	2/3/1999 7:07:00 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5827

More evidence that we are entering the fuel cell age...IN AT THE GROUND FLOOR! I have bolded the reference to BALLARD: If you wish to unsubscribe to this publication, please scroll down to the bottom of this page and click the Unsubscribe web address. Black gold Here is the February 1, 1999 edition of The Barkerletter, published in association with The Prospector Exploration and Investment Newspaper. A reader wants to know about oil prices. Associate analyst A. Canon Bryan explains below: 'There are a lot of different views on the Black Gold these days. Typically, in a global deflationary spiral, all commodity prices continue to sink throughout the crisis until the end; the end being marked by the collapse of the world's reserve currency. In 1999 terms, that means the death of the US Dollar. Ultimately though, one must realize that on a global scale, demand is shrinking. As economies like Japan, Russia, and Brazil tumble like dominoes, they take demand down with them, and it is this decreasing demand that creates the hostile environment for commodities prices. In my view, we haven't seen the final domino fall yet, and thus will the price of oil and all other commodities continue their downfall. Further to the cyclical nature of commodities and oil, I have been giving a lot of thought lately to the extended nature of this malaise. The sector has not rotated to commodities for three years now. Technically speaking (referring to charts), that is a very long time. What could be occurring is what Ian Notley calls 'magnitude failure'; a failure to reverse a significant trend and return to cyclicality. This could be caused by the following hypothesis which I have been considering. Energy could be seeing the dawn of a new paradigm with the advent of hydro electrical fuel cells in automobiles. There is a company in Canada called Ballard Power Systems who vows to have all cars running on, you guessed it, water. And they already have agreements with major car companies and military infrastructures around the world. If this idea flies, we could see a major shift. This is essentially the main function of technology in our economy. Unforeseen technological advances come along every once in a while and institute revolutionary change. This creates efficiencies and major cost reductions, or in this case environmental improvements, but someone always suffers a cruel and torturous death in the process. Just think of what happened to typewriter manufacturers when word processors became the craze. They disappeared from the atmosphere. No one noticed. No one cared. But they died a horrible death. I believe the same could happen to oil companies in the new paradigm. Something to think about