Posted AT 12:52 AM EDT on 17/07/04
Ballard's road gets bumpy
Burnaby, B.C. — There was a time not so long ago when an annual general meeting of Ballard Power Systems Inc. generated a level of excitement that was almost palpable and played to a packed house of investors.
Here, after all, was a company on the brink of developing high tech's holy grail; a device that promised, in a single stroke, to resolve the world's looming energy crisis and to dispel the problems associated with greenhouse gases.
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