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DayStar Technologies CEO to Present at the Ardour Capital Investments Energy Technology Conference

HalfMoon, NY – (PR Newswire) – October 18, 2005 – Dr. John R. Tuttle, Chairman and CEO of DayStar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:DSTI), a developer and manufacturer of proprietary high performance photovoltaic (PV) products, including silicon-free solar cells on specialty metal foils, will be presenting at the Second Annual Ardour Capital Investments Energy Technology Conference at the offices of Coudert Brothers LLP, Fourth Floor Conference Center in New York City.  The presentation will take place on Thursday, October 20, 2005, at approximately 4:30 pm EDT.

Dr. Tuttle will use the conference’s visual presentation format to review DayStar’s technology and manufacturing strategy to achieve Gigawatt scale manufacturing.

Ardour Capital Investments, LLC provides a wide range of financial services for both public and private growth companies. Ardour provides investors that specialize in small capitalization growth companies, a truly independent brand of research not traditionally found within the securities industry. Ardour has made a commitment to be a leading research institution in the Energy Technology/Alternative Power sector. Ardour Capital Investments believes that: worldwide demand for energy will increase with time, energy is a core human need, regardless of a specific timeline, fossil fuels are a limited resource, combustion of hydrocarbons may contribute to climate changes and interest and investing in energy technology will continue to grow.  For more information, please visit: http://www.ardourcapital.com/.

About DayStar Technologies, Inc.
DayStar Technologies, Inc. is an emerging leader in low cost, high efficiency Photovoltaic Foil™ that converts sunlight into energy. The Company's patented and proprietary products include silicon-free CIGS solar cells, which are deposited on flexible metal foils using production processes adapted from commodity computer component manufacturing. DayStar believes the unique combination of its CIGS solar cell design coupled with proprietary manufacturing processes on flexible metal substrates could substantially lower costs and remove deployment barriers currently limiting large adoption of solar energy. For more information on the Company, please visit http://www.daystartech.com.

Photovoltaic Foil, PV Foil, TerraFoil, TerraFoil-SP and LightFoil are registered trademarks of DayStar Technologies, Inc.

SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT: This news release contains "forward-looking statements" that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. "Forward-looking statements" describe future expectations, plans, results, or strategies and are generally preceded by words such as "future, " "plan" or "planned, " "will" or "should," "expected," "anticipates," "draft," "eventually" or "projected." You are cautioned that such statements are subject to a multitude of risks and uncertainties that could cause future circumstances, events, or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, including risks that our products may not achieve customer acceptance or that they will not perform as expected, and other risks identified in our annual report on Form 10-K and other filings with the SEC. You should consider these factors in evaluating the forward-looking statements included herein, and not place undue reliance on such statements. The forward-looking statements are made as of the date hereof and DayStar Technologies Inc. undertakes no obligation to update such statements.

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