REPEAT - Clean Energy enters into a joint venture agreement to develop greenhouse business utilizing its gasification technology VANCOUVER, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Clean Energy Combustion Systems Inc. ("Clean Energy") (OTC BB: CECU) Clean Energy Combustion Systems, Inc. is pleased to announce the formation of a joint venture company, Pure Produce Greenhouses Killam Inc. ("PPGK") for the purpose of operating leading- edge hydroponic greenhouse systems. The greenhouses will grow "short crop" vegetables, such as lettuce, spinach and root vegetables including radish and carrots. These crops will be processed as value-added bagged salads and complete meal salads. The greenhouses, located in the heartland of Central Alberta (Killam), will be designed by Pure Produce Greenhouses Canada Inc. ("PPGCI"). The joint venture partnership will utilize Clean Energy's proprietary gasification system for heating, using straw or other waste material as the fuel source, and will be based on state-of-the-art hydroponic growing technology developed by Pure Produce Greenhouses Canada Inc. Under the terms of a memorandum of understanding, PPGCI will own a 40% interest in PPGK and will supervise the construction and operation of the greenhouses. Clean Energy will own a 60% interest in the venture and will be responsible for providing construction and operation financing for the project. The initial capital requirement of $3.75 Million USD ($5 Million CAD) will fully finance two ranges. Each range consists of 20 greenhouse units, a nursery and a service building, on a two acre footprint. The facilities represent a significant leap in quantity and quality over current market alternatives. Production capability is 600 -1,200% greater than traditional soil based solutions, with crops grown and harvested year round. These pure, superior quality crops will be totally free of insecticides and herbicides. Preliminary market studies indicate a large and viable market for fresh vegetables in all forms. Currently the primary supply for this market comes from California, a five-day transport to Alberta. Killam is central to the Edmonton/Red Deer/Calgary corridor, and studies show that product from up to 200 ranges at the Killam site could be sold in this market. Pending the finalization of capital financing for the project, construction will begin this fall, with first crop expected in early spring 2005. Each hydroponic range would allow for 11 crops per year, with estimated sales of $1.7 Million CAD annually, and EBIDT of $600,000. Based on an average construction cost of $2.4 Million CAD per range, it is anticipated that PPGK could be self-financing within six years, at an expansion rate of 20 additional ranges per year. Background on Clean Energy and Pulse Combustion. Clean Energy is a development-stage U.S. public company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The company's principal technology is a unique high-efficiency valveless combustor technology that operates on the principles of cyclical pulse combustion, originally developed for aerospace propulsion. The company currently holds 6 patents in this area. This patented pulse combustion technology is superior to the standard, steady-state combustion technology currently used in the heat transfer industry in terms of both energy efficiency and consequential fuel cost savings as well as significantly reduced NOx and other emission levels. The company's pulse combustion technologies can be used in a wide variety of systems which burn hydrocarbon- based fuels and waste matter to produce thermal energy for heat utilization applications and the onsite generation of electricity. The company will either design, manufacture and market products incorporating its environmentally friendly and fuel efficient technologies, such as its gasification system, or license or design, manufacture and sell its products for incorporation into systems marketed by other companies. For further information visit Clean Energy's Website at http://www.clean-energy.com/ or contact: Clean Energy Combustion Systems Inc. Telephone: 604-681-9337 Facsimile: 604-681-9354 Email: Forward Looking Statements: Clean Energy's development plans and the prospective potential of its joint venture with PPGK as described in this news release constitute "forward looking statements" within the meaning of the United States federal securities laws that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may vary substantially from expectations as a result of a variety of factors including, by way of example and not limitation, Clean Energy's financial requirements, current lack of capital and prospective inability to satisfactorily procure financing for the PPGK joint venture and changes in Clean Energy's business plan and corporate strategies; and the various risks and uncertainties disclosed by Clean Energy in its various reports filed from time-to-time with the SEC. Readers are urged to carefully review and consider the various disclosures made by Clean Energy in its various reports filed from time-to-time with the SEC that attempt to advise interested parties of the risks and uncertainties that may affect Clean Energy's business and an investment in its securities. DATASOURCE: Clean Energy Combustion Systems Inc. CONTACT: visit Clean Energy's Website at http://www.clean-energy.com/ or contact: Clean Energy Combustion Systems Inc., Telephone: (604) 681-9337, Facsimile: (604) 681-9354, Email:

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