Can you elaborate about Future energy sources and business opportunities through fuel cell technology?
AK: Fuel Cell technology has the potential to replace several of the conventional power sources whether it is portable power, stationary power, or transportational power. The applications of the technology are enormous including laptops, cell phones, cars, buses, airplanes, space shuttles, and residential power. Fuel Cells make a good distributed generation business case especially in places where grid power is unavailable like rural areas. Its more like a semiconductor industry. According to one of the reports published by ABI research 2 years back, the fuel cell industry will generate over $18 billion in sales by 2013. These figures can rise to as high as $35 billion if there is a strong government support for the automobile fuel cell program in U.S., EU, and Japan. ComCom: How well we are addressing the Energy needs world over now and how could we be using R & D to address them? AK: The world is a dynamic place due to emerging new markets, technologies, cultures, etc. and so is the
