GlobeTel Announces Research Effort On Fuel Cells With Proton Energy Systems

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Pursuant to the agreement, Proton will provide assistance in developing a regenerative fuel cell energy storage system for Sanswire's high altitude Remotely Operated Airship (ROA), or Stratellite.

Fort Lauderdale FL (SPX) Jul 14, 2005
GlobeTel Communications announced Wednesday that its wholly-owned subsidiary Sanswire Networks has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRDA) with Proton Energy Systems, a subsidiary of Distributed Energy Systems.

Pursuant to the agreement, Proton will provide assistance in developing a regenerative fuel cell energy storage system for Sanswire's high altitude Remotely Operated Airship (ROA), or Stratellite.

Under the agreement, Proton will provide prototype regenerative fuel cell (RFC) equipment and specialized technical support to Sanswire for the company's development and flight-testing of the Stratellite via a series of task agreements.

Sanswire will provide the airship platform for testing and engineering inputs to tailor the RFC solution.

"We are very excited to work together with Proton Energy Systems. The RFC provides a key capability to enable the Stratellite to stay on station for long periods of time," said Timothy Huff, Chief Executive Officer of GlobeTel.

"To power the airship overnight in windy conditions requires an energy dense storage solution, and the RFC has the potential to fill that requirement." Mr. Huff further commented that: "Pioneering advanced fuel cell technology will put us in an advanced position among others, in fact, we will be the first to employ this technology to the rigid airship. We will continue to partner with technology leaders to provide a low cost communication platform to the world."

Robert Friedland, senior vice president of Proton's hydrogen technology group added, "By working with GlobeTel, we see opportunities to further advance the state of the art for proton exchange membrane regenerative fuel cells by applying it to these innovative applications.

"We see great promise for this technology in future systems for Stratellite which require our systems to make hydrogen during the day from electricity generated from the sun and then regenerate it into electricity at night."

A Stratellite is similar to a satellite, but is stationed in the stratosphere rather than in orbit. At an altitude of 10 to 13 miles above the Earth, each Stratellite will have clear line-of-sight communications capability to an entire major metropolitan area as well as being able to provide coverage across major rural areas.

Several Stratellites linked together could cover many hundreds of thousands of square miles. The Stratellite will allow subscribers to easily communicate in "both directions" using readily available wireless devices.

In addition to voice and data, proposed telecommunications uses include cellular, 3G/4G mobile, MMDS, paging, fixed wireless telephony, HDTV, real-time surveillance and others.

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