AEC Production Process Facts

INPUT

• AEC's proprietary chemical formulation using AEC's patent-pending hydrogen production process.

OUTPUT

• Merchant (Commercial) Hydrogen
• AEC attained a purity rating of 99.9%, conducted by Maxxam Analytics on Sept 20th,2003
• AEC has reduced impurity rates from 5000 ppm (parts per million) to only 17 ppm, far superior than the 100 ppm benchmark needed for typical fuel cell operations
• 4 globally valuable chemical compounds (individually separate processes)
• Estimated global market of the Company's largest by-product at US$3.4Bn with annual growth of 4% (CAGR, 10% in Asia).
• Secondary by-products have growing global markets in the pharma/nutraceutical and food ingredient industries estimated at over US$1Bn.

SUMMARY OF BENEFITS

• Competitively priced hydrogen
• Via subsidization from by-product sales and green credits
• On-site production not requiring pressurization, high pressure storage (costly/safety), or distribution (used on-site).
• Premium USP-grade (ingestible), chemical ingredients (4 to date)
• Used in foods and nutri/pharmaceuticals worldwide.
• Several of AEC's by products play a health-enhancing / supportive role.
• Does not generate its hydrogen from fossil fuels, thereby
• Does not create a further over-reliance on a depleting non-renewable resource (i.e. oil).
• Does not contribute to greenhouse gas emissions.
• Is not electrolysis and therefore does not require electricity to produce its hydrogen.
• Uses only bio-friendly materials and therefore is not harmful to the environment/humans
• unlike aluminum, borax, sulfur and iodine with some other methods.
• Low volatility - no special storage of material is required
• unlike encapsulated metal hydride, which must be stored in oils, due to reaction with moisture).
• By contrast, AEC's material can be held in the hand and by-products, ingestible.