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DayStar Technologies CEO To Present At Jefferies' Alternative Energy and Cleantech Conference

Halfmoon, NY – (PR Newswire) – May 9, 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 the Jefferies’ Alternative Energy and Cleantech Conference in New York City.

WHEN:           Tuesday, May 16, 2006 at 9:20 A.M. EDT

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

The audio portion of DayStar Technologies’ presentation will be available by webcast and can be accessed the day of the conference by logging onto http://www.wsw.com/webcast/jeff9/dsti.  The live webcast will also be archived and available for 90 days.

Jefferies, a global investment bank and institutional securities firm, has served growing and mid-sized companies and their investors for over 40 years. Headquartered in New York with more than 25 offices around the world, Jefferies provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage, securities research and asset management. The firm is a leading provider of trade execution in equity, high yield, convertible and international securities for institutional investors and high net worth individuals. Jefferies & Company, Inc. is the principal operating subsidiary of Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF; www.jefferies.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 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-KSB 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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