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Gold/Mining/Energy : Global Thermoelectric - SOFC Fuel cells (GLE:TSE) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: blue_chip who wrote (1142)	4/20/1999 9:30:00 PM
From: michael a. rowe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6016

GLE is 100% speculation, look at what the company has released...from that people on this thread have said its all over for ballard and GLE will be the cell of choice...they dont even have a deal. Ballard has many deals with many companies....many. And what you say about ballard and the need to advance fuel delivery systems, public perseption, production costs etc.... its just a bunch of hot air... The public already wants and needs ballards technology. The cost to produce a ballard fuel cell at this stage is irrelevent, mass production will bring the costs down, thats what mass production does. Fuel delivery systems/reforming technology/nanotubes etc...currently being worked on...we see today that the oil companies...granted only 3 of the biggest today....are in on the latest california testing program....its obvious that these companies are finally seeing that they are fuel delivery companies and in the future they will delivery different fuels.....ballard has stated and it is obvious that their participation is required for success and now we are seeing it. The date for fuel cell powered cars is a few years away and there will be ups and downs but in the end ballard had got them on the road and the backing of almost everyone....gle has a maybe deal. your just dreaming of being rich....I know that multipling a big number of shares by a big number gets you there quicker...thats why you like gle over ballard....if you look at the facts ballard blows gle away. mike

To: blue_chip who wrote (1142)	4/20/1999 9:31:00 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6016

On the question of the SOFC's heat preventing it from automotive use, I can't see how that can be - insulation is hardly rocket science or expensive. My chariot is diesel-powered and the combustion chamber temperatures are higher than gle's SOFC. Going back ninety years or so, there was a wide variety of technology being developed in the early motorcar. For power there was internal combustion, steam and electric - internal combustion won the market, but it seems to me that that victory came through popularisation by Ford and others - at some point they might have decided to put their development effort into steam instead and make a whizbang multiple-fuel safe dependable affordable steam turbine by 1925 or so ... if they had we would now know that as the standard and Rudolf Diesel's engine would now be consigned to museums. Nobody has a fuel-cell-powered vehicle in mass production at this point. Seems to me the field is somewhat open still ... Ballard is getting respect, though. And in the last few days, so has Global ... we'll see how they execute. Anyway, there's lots of markets beyond the automotive sector, in a couple of which gle seems to be doing fine already.