Business Editors

VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 2000

"The RHOMBIC battery will revolutionize the satellite industry," is one of the many enthusiastic comments received from some 20 satellite and battery manufacturing companies in the U.S. and Europe, contacted during the month of February, 2000, by Rhombic Corporation's business developers.

The current explosion of telecom and satellite industries forecasts a huge global market for the RHOMBIC battery.

The Innovative design of the radionunclide battery with dust plasma is expected to enable this device to exceed all power sources currently used for communications satellites, and to provide more efficient and longer lasting supercompact devices for the "next generation" of satellites to be launched this decade.

The Innovative design of the radionuclide battery with dust plasma is expected to enable this device to exceed all power sources currently used for communications satellites, and to provide more efficient and longer lasting supercompact devices for the "next generation" of satellites to be launched this decade.

The RHOMBIC battery is currently being developed for commercial use. Upon completion of the engineering process. Rhombic anticipates to commence manufacturing the RHOMBIC battery. No date has yet been set for the commercial introduction of the RHOMBIC battery.

RHOMBIC Corporation is working now to develop financing both from the corporate investment sector and from U.S. Government agencies.

Statements in this news release looking forward in time involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results may be materially different. Factors that could cause actual results to differ include activity levels in the securities markets and other risk factors.

For further details, call the Company's pubic Relations office at 888-821-6607 or 604-421-5543. The Lawrence Adams Ltd. phone in New York, NY, is 212-738-4800; Or view the Rhombic website www.rhombic.com