DaimlerChrysler has pledged to have commercial fuel-cell vehicles available by 2004. Fuel-cell buses are running in Canada and on the streets of Chicago. Ford Motor Co. has produced a workable vehicle in a partnership with Washington. The industrial revolution has fallen to the knowledge age. Fossil fuel technology will fall to renewable energy sources and fuel cells, batteries of a sort that generate electricity through chemical processes.
Billings can be at the edge of that technology.
The J.E. Corette is uniquely suited for work of this kind. Be at the meeting 8 a.m. today in the Sheraton in the third-floor Wood conference room and bask in this state's brighter future. It's peeking over the horizon. The Billings Gazette, a division of Lee Enterprises .