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VIASPACE Energy Expands Shipments of Its Humidity Sensor to Fuel Cell Test Station Manufacturers in Asia

PASADENA, Calif., June 18 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 its VIASPACE Energy division has begun shipments to fuel cell test stations manufacturers WonATech and SciTec of Seoul, Korea.

WonATech and SciTec are fuel cell test station manufacturers and service the needs of fuel cell developers such as Samsung and LG in Korea. The performance 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. The VIASPACE HS-1000 VIASENSOR instrument provides real-time measurements of the amount of water vapor in these gas streams and can be utilized within a fuel cell test station for that purpose.

VIASPACE CEO Carl Kukkonen stated, "We welcome both WonATech and SciTec to our growing list of HS-1000 VIASENSOR customers, which includes companies such as 3M and Ballard Corporations. We are confident that the addition of the VIASENSOR to a variety of fuel cell test stations will greatly improve the performance and overall value to the customers who buy those units. The VIASENSOR should speed up their efforts to 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, for the fiscal year ended December 31, 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.

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