PRESS RELEASE
November 21,
2005
Apollo Energy Systems, Inc. (Pompano Beach, Florida), a developer of
Alkaline Fuel Cells, Ammonia Crackers, Lead Cobalt Batteries, Apollo Power
Plants and Electric Propulsion Systems has just received notice from the U.
S. Patent Office that its Lead Cobalt Battery and Alkaline Fuel Cell patent
applications have been approved. The two patents will be issued in December,
2005. 100 claims on the battery patent and 17 claims on the fuel cell patent
were allowed by the Patent Office.
The battery patent includes a light-weight Lead Foam substrate which
substantially reduces the weight of the battery. For example, a typical golf
cart battery weighs 60-pounds. With Lead Foam grids, instead of conventional
lead-antimony or calcium-lead grids, the golf cart battery would weigh
30-pounds -- with higher energy and power density.
The fuel cell patent covers special electrodes developed at the Technical
University of Graz in Austria by Dr. Karl Kordesch, one of the world’s top
fuel cell scientists. These electrodes are similar to the electrodes
produced by Dr. Kordesch at Union Carbide in the 1960s, but have twice the
power density.
Still pending with Patent Office are patent applications on an Ammonia
Cracker and on a Method for Extending the Life of Alkaline Fuel Cells. In
2006, Apollo plans to file two additional patent applications on the Ammonia
Cracker and two on Methods for Producing Lead Foam.
Apollo’s patent and technology position is very strong and based, in part,
on an exclusive world-wide license from Electric Fuel Propulsion Corporation
(EFP) covering 37 issued patents and 22 new inventions, some of which may
mature into pending patents. EFP operated in Detroit, Michigan for many
years, producing over 100 highway electric vehicles. EFP electric vehicles
won the two cross country electric car races, the Great Transcontinental
Electric Car Race of 1968 and the Clean Air Car race of 1970, crossing the
country from the California Institute of Technology in California to the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Massachusetts in seven days.
Tri-Polar, Lead Cobalt Fast Charge Batteries were used in the winning
vehicles.
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