Thanks HC. The subsidy link you will find in the first post....

Thanks HC. The subsidy link you will find in the first post. What can you do with 750W output? Panasonic explain it on their site quite thoroughly re electricity, hot water, and heating. The price tag makes the BlueGen look good. Fuel cell technology seems to be taking hold and CFCL have been ticking all the right boxes. The right product, right markets, right time. I think a very interesting year is ahead.

And this all helps..

A GLUT in global supplies of natural gas over the next decade threatens to blunt investment in alternative energy sources, warns the IEA.
Speaking at the launch of the International Energy Agency?s annual World Energy Outlook report, Fatih Birol, its chief economist, said that the world was entering a "golden age of gas" because of surging production of shale gas using new technology developed in the United States.

He said that the IEA, the Paris-based agency that advises the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on oil and energy issues, was now predicting a global surplus of the fuel of about 150 billion cubic metres annually in the years ahead.

That is equivalent to 5 per cent of world demand of 2940 billion cubic metres.


However, Dr Birol warned that depressed prices for the fuel were boosting investment in gas-fired power stations and having a knock-on impact on rival technologies considered critical for meeting international carbon-reduction targets, which are now less competitive.

"Modest gas prices will in turn have a negative impact on many alternative fuels, including renewables and nuclear energy," he said. "We can already see the first evidence of this in the United States."

He pointed out that several wind energy projects had been cancelled or postponed in the US in recent months. "Nuclear is the same. The advantage of gas is that you have a very low capital cost compared with nuclear."

I know what renewable energy I'd rather be invested in. Fuel cell technology would be seen by gas companies as a godsend. They will be the ones that make the residential fuel cell the success it will be.