BEACON POWER CORPO COM USD0.01 (NASDAQ:BCON)

strong potential but high risk

The Nation's electrical grids must transport electricity at a frequency of 60 cycles per second (or hertz). Variations in load (for example, thousands of air conditioners going on and off during the course of a day), cause this frequency to fluctuate. If that fluctuation becomes too great and sustained, the machines and equipment using the electriciy can be damaged. Also, if the frequency is too great, parts of the grid can shut down. Remember the last NYC blackout?

Power companies compensate for this variation by using "quick start" generators (turbines etc.) to feed in (by starting) or pull back (by shutting down) to maintain the frequency.

Beacon's flywheel technology can feed in and pull back energy quicker than any other technology in common use today. The technology doesn't generate energy; it simply stores it to be tapped into when needed. When an excess is in the system, the flywheel stores the energy, when power needs to be injected into the system, the energy is pulled out of the flywheel.

Many have worked on this technology. Beacon seems to be the farthest along in making it practical. It's worked on a test basis in California and New York. By April of 2008, commercial quanties of BCON flywheel capacity will be in use somewhere in the Northeast.

BCON may be a game changer in maintaining the integrity of the nation's electrical grid. Make no mistake, this one's a speculative stock. It does, however, have solid technology behind it and has lately attracted some pretty significant financial backing (Quercus Trust and possibly the fed. Dept. of Energy).

This one, IMHO, is likely to at least double in 12 months.

Green Energy,once all news, good and bad is unveiled, Beacon can build out it's first units for NY, CA, US Gov?

Their project could be funded by the DOE

good buy on the fact that going into next quarter, they will be making money.

Flywheels, In m opinion, are the future, this company is growing and expanding, and i have plenty of faith that it will get approved for the loans and nessecary funding it needs to really get this thing off the ground and make sales.
FUNDAMENTALLY: Ok...It doesnt look to great, but you have to think Potential Value(which you should always be doing anyways if you buy a stock), actual value is virtually nothing right now...ideas dont have value unless their capitalized on and it looks like there taking the right steps to make this a very profitable company. Insiders are buying(not officers but owners...still they have reasonable track records.)

TECHNICALLY: 50 day and 200 day MA's have crossed, confirming a general uptrend, and it has a steady upward trend with good support...Most technical indicators such as RSI are starting to say overbought...but I dont think it will play a big role in the long term, might be able to get it cheaper in the next few weeks...not too much cheaper though....

NOTE: as I'm writing this there in a Patent lawsuit, I think the lawsuit will be dropped, or maybe the companies will even merge..They are both companies and both want to make money, I doubt either of the companies will want to spend all the time and money on a lengthy lawsuit..e

sound good

Beacon Power is a perfect green energy stock with surprising potential in a $2 stock. Beacon's Smart Energy Matrix, now in development following approval for use in three of the country's five open-bid regulation markets, is being designed to be a non-polluting, megawatt-level, utility-grade flywheel-based solution that would provide sustainable frequency regulation services. They are currently approved in New York,(NYSERDA),California (CAISO) and PJM Interconnection, three of the largest frequency regulation markets have approved Beacon for entering. Department of Energy (DOE) has been a long time partner in funding with grant money and recently invited Beacon to apply for DOE guaranteed funding.

With no emissions, Beacon is a environmentally friendly company that is poised to move substantially once they enter the preapproved markets for frequency regulation.

Flywheels are the way to go. If Beacon doesn't succeed at it, someone else will. Beacon seems to have a pretty good head start on the competition so my money is on Beacon.

Flywheels have a higher energy density and longer life than any other energy storage method. They beat batteries hands down. Automobile manufacturers should be using flywheel storage in hybrid vehicles instead of batteries. It's inefficient to convert mechanical energy to electrical, then convert it to chemical energy, then convert it back to electrical, then convert it to mechanical. There are significant losses at every step of the conversion process. Why not just store it in a flywheel via some planetary gearing during deceleration and idling, and then pull it back out as needed for acceleration without all the extra electrical complexity of motor-generators and batteries?

R&D product on the verge of full production. Ability to ward off potential brown out situations in the electrical grid. This stock is one to own with patience, you will reap huge rewards

Energy and making it go farther is going to be crucial to America from now on. Here's a technology that will better regulate electricity that's already been produced.

Bcon designs clean energy flywheels that are used to help manage grids in high volume sectors. They have already received approval from LA, NY, and PJM, all are open bid markets. In the coming days, Beacon Power is expected to announce approval from the Texas ISO market and in September the New England ISO market. They'll also be announcing in September the location of the first plant to host the flywheels.

They are expecting to begin grossing revenue in 2008. Each 1 mw of power from a flywheel will generate $400,000-$500,000 per year. By the end of 2008, they are expecting to be running between 10-20 mw.

Key things to note:

The flywheels issue 0 emissions. Total clean energy and their technology is patented.

Besides development costs, Beacon virtually has no overhead. It's all profit.

Right when I was getting into stock trading, I bought BCON.

In November of 2004
I bought 30,000 shares at .41
...and sold it one week later at .33, when it hit my stop loss.

Take a look at the chart...
It hit 1.41 one month later,
and 5.35 eight months after that!

BCON gives me heartache every time I see it,
it was my "one that got away"
So I have to give it a thumbs down, because it's gain is my pain.

Thanks for letting me share.

8 out of 10

Flywheel energy storage devices are practical now as backup and emergency UPSs and in the future in larger scale alternative energy solutions.

While the concept of their product is good, the product itself I do not believe can be sold. The idea filtering power demands can only be obtained from a larger proprietary level and not by using these truck sized "flywheel" devices that they cant seem to sell. With a weak demand for their product and a very sketchy background the only thing this company has going for it is a perceived valuation from natural disasters and alternative energy.

Small change right now, but it is going to "fly" like a "wheel "going down hill. Electric companies have been waiting for these guys.

Energy conservation. Storing excess energy and adding it back to the grid when needed...reduces the need for gas-powered utilities for flux in grid. Also useful to smooth flux from alternatative energies (solar/wind aren't consistent energy-suppliers). Build-out to start '08; this small-cap may someday be a good dividend-producer... I see great potential.