Fuel cells: will Canada win?

Industrial Lubrication and Tribology

ISSN: 0036-8792

Article publication date: 1 June 1998

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Citation

(1998), "Fuel cells: will Canada win?", Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, Vol. 50 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/ilt.1998.01850cab.005

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 1998, MCB UP Limited


Fuel cells: will Canada win?

Fuel cells: will Canada win?

Never before has Canada presented the world with a potentially transforming technology. But a highly innovative Canadian company, after years of intensive R&D, is poised to provide the energy world's equivalent of the computer chip. The fuel-cell technology being developed by Ballard Power Systems Inc. of Vancouver has the potential to sharply reduce the need for oil, coal and nuclear power, and to provide the world with an almost limitless supply of environmentally friendly energy. The big question, though, is whether Canada has the will to pull this off, or will it lose the lead to better-financed players in the USA, Japan or other countries?

An article ("Fuel cell tests whether Canada can win on its own") by David Crane (Economics Editor ­ Toronto Star) in Ottawa Business Journal (1 September 1997, 1 page) is available from GIST by quoting 22534P.

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