VIASPACE Energy Expands Global Distribution with Agreement and Order in Israel/Middle...

VIASPACE Energy Expands Global Distribution with Agreement and Order in
Israel/Middle East

PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VIASPACE Inc.
(OTC Bulletin Board: VSPC), a company that transforms proven space and defense
technologies from NASA and the Department of Defense into hardware and
software solutions, announced today that the company has entered into a
distribution agreement and has received an order for its laser based HS-1000
VIASENSOR relative humidity instrument from Weis Scientific of Israel. Weis
Scientific has received its initial instruments and will provide distribution
for VIASPACE throughout the Middle East.
Weis Scientific is a distributor of high technology products including
fuel cell related products to both companies and universities in Israel and
other Middle Eastern countries. The VIASPACE HS-1000 instrument provides
real-time measurements of the amount of water vapor in the Hydrogen gas
streams used in Hydrogen fuel cells.
The performance efficiency of hydrogen fuel cells using a Polymer
Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) depends on the moisture level of the membrane. The
membrane only conducts protons when it is hydrated or moist. The moisture is
provided by water vapor in the incoming air or hydrogen stream. If the
moisture level is either too wet or too dry, the fuel cell will either not run
efficiently or may fail to operate.
VIASPACE CEO Carl Kukkonen stated, "We are very pleased to add Weis
Scientific to our growing list of global distribution partners. Our early
shipments of the VIASENSOR to this distribution partner should speed up their
efforts to help other companies optimize fuel cell designs, as well as to
provide a quality measurement of projected performance of units on the
production line."
About VIASPACE: Founded in 1998 with the objective of transforming proven
space and defense technologies from NASA and the Department of Defense into
hardware and software solutions that solve today's complex problems, VIASPACE
benefits from important patent and software licenses from Caltech, which
manages NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. For more information, please see
http://www.VIASPACE.com, or contact Dr. Jan Vandersande, Director of
Communications at 800-517-8050, or IR@VIASPACE.com.
This news release includes forward-looking statements. These
forward-looking statements relate to future events or our future performance
and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may
cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to
be materially different from any future results, levels of activity,
performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking
statements. Such factors include the risks outlined in our periodic filings
with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report
on Form 10-KSB, as amended, for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006, and
our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2007, as
well as general economic and business conditions, the ability to acquire and
develop specific projects and technologies, the ability to fund operations,
changes in consumer and business consumption habits, and other factors over
which VIASPACE has little or no control.
SOURCE VIASPACE Inc.

Carl Kukkonen of VIASPACE Inc., +1-626-768-3360