Just rereading the NR again and I love the message that comes across clearly with this NR and if I could resume the NR in 1 sentence, this would be it:
Albany graphite can perform as well as synthetic graphite but has significant cost and environmental advantages that will permit strong market penetration.
Here are the quotes to support this sentence:
Importantly, the properties of Zenyatta's Albany graphite material were all within the specifications needed for high performance of Ballard products in a number of commercial fuel-cell applications. The components made from Albany graphite were equivalent to the existing synthetic-graphite-made components.
From an environmental and cost advantage, the Ballard report also concluded that Zenyatta graphite provides a clean carbon option for fuel-cell components (such as plates and membrane electrode assembly). If Zenyatta's hydrothermal graphite can also be low cost compared with existing synthetic graphite, it will facilitate fuel-cell cost reduction and market penetration.
the cost to produce synthetic graphite is high and its production also has significant environmental impacts. Finding alternative graphite with a cost and environmental advantage is important as the global green movement against pollution intensifies. Zenyatta has shown an estimated operating cost of approximately $2 (U.S.) per kilogram for purified Albany graphite in the preliminary economic assessment and can also potentially show a significant environmental advantage over synthetic graphite.
This is the fourth round of successful test results which continue to prove the suitability of Albany graphite in an exciting and high-growth clean-tech application like fuel cells. We are extremely pleased with the progress and Ballard's involvement in testing the viability of Albany graphite in this application. It is very important to note that the material being tested by Ballard was run-of-the-lab Albany graphite material produced with no special processing or customization for these tests."
All functional tests completed at that time showed the properties of Zenyatta's Albany graphite to be as good as the benchmark synthetic graphite presently used by Ballard in fuel-cell technology.
So Dr. Chahar in this NR kept hammering home that we were as good as synthetic without any special processing or customization and that Albany Graphite had significant cost and environmental advantages that should permit them to have solid market penetration.
We have known for a long time that this was the case but it seems management and Dr. Chahar are doing their best to hammer these points home. I loved the assertive tone of this NR!
Our time is coming!
Choo Choo!
Glorieux
