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FUEL cell powered vehicles like this one from Nissan, using hydrogen and air for fuel, will be ready for pur-
chase in dealer showrooms by 2004. Ballard Power Systems of Burnaby, formerly located in North Vancouver,
_ fs desianing most of the fuel cel! engines for the major aute manufacturers.

Brady Fotharingham

_ Contributing Writer
ENERGY efficient fuel
celis and low polluting
power systems were the
focus Tuesday when the
National Research

Council announced a
$30 million initiative to
establish a fuel cell —
_research facility in
Vancouver. .
By next April, the National

Research Council {NRC),
plans to have completely ren-

novated its current innovation
research centre, which now
focuses on the resource sector.
with a separate wing of techni-
ca! specialists iri advanced fuel
cell technology.

Located at the University
of British Columbia (UBC),
the NRC’s innovation centre
Plans to capture the techno-

logical momentum of Ballard
Power Systems, co-founded by
Dr. Geoffrey Ballard and Paul
Howard of West Vancouver.
Ed Capes, director gencral
for the National Research
Centre in Vancouver said the
expansion of the innovation

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centre would allow develap-
ment of the fuel cell industry
well beyond the automobile,
which has been the primary
focus for most corporate
research.

“This funding will allow for
testing and assessment and let
companies get experience in
fuc! cells on a larger scale,”
Capes said.

Local companies like BC
Hydro are looking at station-
ary powce supply alternatives
useful in remote communities
using advances in fucl cell
technology. At the NRC’s cen-
tre, B.C. companies like

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clean, 1 owner, “summer fun”

Statpower Technologies Corp.
and Vancouver Island’s ASA
Automated Systems are work-
ing on support projects and
beta testing of fuel cells, some
of them already operational.
Fuel cells, which basically
capitalize on the heat and
water vapour byproducts from
a fuel cell’s electrochemical
reaction, giving an engine its
power, are viewed as the next
economically feasible technical
revolution in the transporta-
tion and power supply fields.
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