RE: Adam Bond said23 Nov 2022 17:16
BuenaVista,
I saw that CPH2 news when it hit the wire yesterday, as I added them to one of my watchlists when their technology got some coverage a couple of months ago.
What does their RNS remind me of? AFC back in early 2008 when the design wasn't scaling up very well, so they nicked Gene Lewis from CWR to try and sort it out. He did a lot of good progress on the system but ultimately designed it to be far too expensive, hence he went exit stage left after a few years and several million quid spent on R&D. AFC did get back on track with other scientists they brought in, and now we have a system that achieves the ambitions of the company when it listed, it's cheap CAPEX and cheap OPEX, runs on low grade H2 but can also use dirty H2 from Ammonia, Methanol and waste gas streams, is scalable to multi-megawatts, etc, etc. PLUS we now have a highly valuable 'holy grail' Alkaline Membrane for Fuel Cells, Electrolysers and other uses.
Having watched events unfold with AFC over the past 15 years, and then reading the CHP2 announcement, I will not be going anywhere near CPH2. It's possible CHP2 could fail to fix its technology issues and fail to achieve successful scale up, so it's a sit and wait stock.
AFC is proving its commercial technology working on client sites. HS2 didn't allow AFC to announce the deployment to Euston a few weeks back, they wanted to wait and get their proof, and now that they have that proof, they are shouting it from the rooftops.
Soon we will see:
The 100kW ABB system, tested by ABB at AFC HQ and then delivered to ABB before year end.
Sales of Power Towers.
The Juelich 100kW system (which could have been built in parallel with the ABB system).
Th 200kW ABB system with integrated Ammonia Cracker (likely built alongside the 100kW as the gap between the two does not look enough for them to be built consecutively).
And no doubt more.
AFC is the place to be, it's definitely not CPH2 and won't be for some time, if ever.