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DayStar Technologies CEO to Present at the First Albany Capital Solar Conference

Halfmoon, NY – (PR Newswire) – February 8, 2006  – Dr. John R. Tuttle, Chairman and CEO of DayStar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:DSTI), a developer and manufacturer of innovative Photovoltaic Foil™ products, will be a featured presenter at First Albany Capital’s Solar Conference in New York City.

WHEN:           Wednesday, February 15, 2006 at 2:30 p.m. EST

WHERE:         Harvard Club
                     35 West 44th Street
                     New York, NY

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

Founded in 1953, First Albany is a leading institutionally focused independent investment bank that serves the institutional market, the growing corporate middle market and public institutions by providing clients with strategic, research-based, innovative investment opportunities. First Albany offers a diverse range of products through its Equities division, Fixed Income division and Venture Capital division, FA Technology Ventures Inc.  First Albany is traded on NASDAQ under the symbol FACT with offices in major business and commercial markets.

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 manufactures CIGS solar cells, which are deposited on flexible metal foils using production processes adapted from computer component manufacturing. As an alternative to wafer-silicon solar cells, 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.

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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