$3/gal gas prices aren't bad for everyone.
Well, as long as you have people buying houses 80 miles from where they work, and then commuting solo over congested freeways at an average of 30 mph in a Ford Explorer your energy investments will do well.
A Maryland developer is going to build a 4300 (eventually 9000!) home community in western Maryland his market being people who currently live in the Baltimore/DC metro area. No train, no bus service, no mass transit at all - all car. This development, called Terrapin Run, is over 100 miles from the Washington DC line. Meanwhile in both Baltimore and DC, tens of thousands (over 80,000 in Baltimore alone) of abandoned rowhouses and brownstones sit empty and boarded up.
For this we fight in Iraq - so that people's commutes from such communities will be uninterrupted.
A Maryland developer is going to build a 4300 (eventually 9000!) home community in western Maryland his market being people who currently live in the Baltimore/DC metro area. No train, no bus service, no mass transit at all - all car. This development, called Terrapin Run, is over 100 miles from the Washington DC line. Meanwhile in both Baltimore and DC, tens of thousands (over 80,000 in Baltimore alone) of abandoned rowhouses and brownstones sit empty and boarded up.
For this we fight in Iraq - so that people's commutes from such communities will be uninterrupted.
Thanks for the mammaries! (.)(.)
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We own shares of this company...http://www.ballard.com/SkiDork wrote:Hydrogen rules. Too bad it's a long way off...
From the website: "Ballard Power Systems' vision is Power to Change the World®. Our mission is to make fuel cells a commercial reality"
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Biggest problem with hydrogen is that most of the H2 that's available on earth has that attached "O". Haven't followed the technology that closely but if I remember correctly it's still an expensive - in terms of energy - process to liberate hydrogen from water.
Too bad we just can't stick a collector out in interplanetary space. Lots of the stuff up there.
Too bad we just can't stick a collector out in interplanetary space. Lots of the stuff up there.
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From my novice analysis ... looks like the company is on the down swing IMHO. Although, certainly the companies intent is by all means good.MarieM wrote:We own shares of this company...http://www.ballard.com/SkiDork wrote:Hydrogen rules. Too bad it's a long way off...
From the website: "Ballard Power Systems' vision is Power to Change the World®. Our mission is to make fuel cells a commercial reality"
Gross profit EOY '03 was $43.5K and in EOY '05 was $22.4K, but analyst reports show that they expect BLDP to underpeform. Maybe it's on its way back up though.
Yup...we ain't gettin' rich on that stock. The company is run by young guys with plenty of techno-vision but not a whole lot of business/common sense/street-wise expertise.XtremeJibber2001 wrote:From my novice analysis ... looks like the company is on the down swing IMHO. Although, certainly the companies intent is by all means good.MarieM wrote:We own shares of this company...http://www.ballard.com/SkiDork wrote:Hydrogen rules. Too bad it's a long way off...
From the website: "Ballard Power Systems' vision is Power to Change the World®. Our mission is to make fuel cells a commercial reality"
Gross profit EOY '03 was $43.5K and in EOY '05 was $22.4K, but analyst reports show that they expect BLDP to underpeform. Maybe it's on its way back up though.