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As peaking generation there's a huge attraction in fuel cells in theory at least. Trouble is, the product on offer seems to have a very slow response and be intended for baseload operation only, thus making it unable to follow load.
 
news just released they have sold into europe finally...

Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited [AIM/ASX: CFU], a leading developer of high efficiency and low emission electricity generation units for homes and other buildings, has sold its first BlueGen power and heating units in Europe, to leading German utility EWE.
EWE has ordered three BlueGen units, for delivery in Q2 and Q3 2010. EWE will install and operate the BlueGen units in EWE facilities and family homes in the North West of Germany.
BlueGen is the latest breakthrough in small scale electricity generation. About the size of a dishwasher, each BlueGen unit can produce twice the electricity needed to power an average home, with the surplus electricity being sold back to the grid. BlueGen also produces heat, to make enough hot water for an average home.
BlueGen units can generate electricity more efficiently than the current European power grid, significantly reducing a home’s carbon emissions and cutting energy bills.
Ceramic Fuel Cells has achieved the highest electrical efficiency of any product in the large market for small scale power and heat products.
Ceramic Fuel Cells has been working with EWE since 2005. EWE has deep experience with fuel cells and distributed generation.
ENDS
 
Sounds good, hope to hear more sale news. Also was the news released before or after today's market close?
 
Well spotted NNickers!
Should have been very good news. I see the announcement on the ASX but didnt notice the ASX notification on the day, (25 Jan). News did nothing locally -9.5%, London market -8.8%. Which is a pity because I see it as a breakthrough piece of news albeit only a few bluegens. Now people can see them in action (in Europe), hopefully they then really market them and the fuel cells.

YMA, I couldnt find the time of release of the news. Still snooping.

See what happens in London tonight (26th) and ASX tomorrow.

Cheers
 
yma said:
Sounds good, hope to hear more sale news. Also was the news released before or after today's market close?
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I can see one article report (timed) 25 January 2010 @ 09:52 am BST (British Summer Time?), I think it may have been announced at the opening of London exchange.
 
EWE has ordered three BlueGen units,
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This is probably the bad news, as in 'only 3'. If you have a manufacturing facility you need to be selling more than 3 to large potential customers to experiment with.

brty
 
jbocker said:
Well spotted NNickers!
Should have been very good news. I see the announcement on the ASX but didnt notice the ASX notification on the day, (25 Jan). News did nothing locally -9.5%, London market -8.8%. Which is a pity because I see it as a breakthrough piece of news albeit only a few bluegens. Now people can see them in action (in Europe), hopefully they then really market them and the fuel cells.

YMA, I couldnt find the time of release of the news. Still snooping.

See what happens in London tonight (26th) and ASX tomorrow.

Cheers
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Thanks jbocker, let wait and see how the market reflects this news.

brty said:
This is probably the bad news, as in 'only 3'. If you have a manufacturing facility you need to be selling more than 3 to large potential customers to experiment with.

brty
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couple months ago,Australian energy utility has agreed to install a BlueGen gas-to-electricity generator in a showcase sustainability home. i think it is all based on how good is the product, thought that only 3 this time, hopefully more news to come once it is a proven good product
 
The price bounce back a bit yesterday even with the market lost almost by 2%, looking forward to hear more news for it.
 
It's the first time since September that the share price is hovering under 20 cent region... The news of the germany sales got a bit of action as the last couple of days volume is well over double. I get a hunch if it doesn't hold 20 you one may suggest you are going to get some serious selling pressure from people who only got on board recently.

I see this as an opportunity to get in this as I have been watching since for ages and also been too soft to get in!
 
this is a long term investment with big upside in europe
if you like the story dollar cost average into the share price
 
craigj said:
this is a long term investment with big upside in europe
if you like the story dollar cost average into the share price
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I agree and see any short term weakness in the SP as a great buying opportunity and have been averaging in over last year. It is early days but I for one believe this to be a blue chip company of the future and quite happy to buy on the dips and hold long term, it is possible you may never see the SP at these levels again
 
Positive news overnight. See attachments.

Stock is up 3c in first 15 mins of trading. up 17.6%. (20c)
 

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Hi Johnny Utah, from the doc it didn't mention about the quantity, do you know the exact figure? more than 3 this time:)?
 
this stock is DOWN 50% from sept 09.:mad::mad:
There must be a reason for this, bring it bad direction from the company ot "the market' doesnt think it will get up.:mad::mad:
i have lost a bucket load because of some CFD trades so i guess I am shoity about it.:(:(
 
DAZT49 said:
this stock is DOWN 50% from sept 09.:mad::mad:
There must be a reason for this, bring it bad direction from the company ot "the market' doesnt think it will get up.:mad::mad:
i have lost a bucket load because of some CFD trades so i guess I am shoity about it.:(:(
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Perhaps the reason was a long over due correction.

The stock may be down 50% since then but from a year ago it is up almost 400%.... I mean it went from below 5 cents to around mid 30's in the space of 6 months. What a run it was!
 
7 years of negative cash flow and little indication of that changing soon, shares on issue going from 27mil to over a billion - wonders if the original prospectus suggested those numbers
 
Meltrader said:
Does anyone know what's going on with CFU today? Up 9% and more than 27 million shares traded? Who is buying??
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One newsletter (Not Eureka Report ;)) has recommended it as a buy at a certain price. The report was released on Monday night obviously giving opportunity to its own mates to buy on Monday.

I have seen however most of their recommendations have dived down drastically and they have stated SELL trailing stop after 35% loss. So although I have subscribed to it but not tempted to buy at their recommendation. Some times they were correct (obviously to keep the subscription list alive and getting a herd of sheep to follow their advise being subscribers) . After many failed recommendations probably this time could be right but recommendations have not been supported with any tangible data, I visited website and not impressed unless something fishy behind the curtain. The same newsletter has also said - high risk speculation.

So bottom line - it could be the effect of traders' manipulation and just read reliable data analysis before jumping into conclusion.

DNH and did some reading after reading the speculative recommendation.

DYOR .
 
Meltrader said:
Does anyone know what's going on with CFU today? Up 9% and more than 27 million shares traded? Who is buying??
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Tipped in a small cap newsletter yesterday! The newsletter has a large reader base and the stocks tipped normally get a bit of a boost (in the short term anyway).
 
Just noticed that there is going to a launch of Bloom Box in America. This a solid state fuel cell that "promises" to be substantially cheaper than anything else on the market.

It has been commercially trialled for over 9 months with 20 large companies (Google, Fed Ex, E Bay etc) so it isn't complete bs.

I also noticed on another thread that a company called AFC in England has a cheap alkaline fuel cell on the market. They already have an arrangement with LINC energy to produce electricity from the coal to gas plant LINC has operational.

The point of all this? Is it possible that CFU's technology, while very good, might be overtaken ?

http://dvice.com/archives/2010/02/bloom-box-could.php

http://www.afcenergy.com/2010/02/22...rst-milestone-in-coal-gasification-agreement/
 
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