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EEstor Update
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Written on: 07 August 2008 [02:58]
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Lensman
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EEstor, the company which claims to have developed a disruptive "ultracapacitor" technology which would be far better than any current batteries and make electric cars practical, and now claims to be ramping up to mass production, has (understandably) been very secretive about their progress and plans. The following article provides much clarification. We still think a good deal of skepticism is appropriate for a product which the capacitor industry claims is physically impossible, but rumor has it that those privy to what EEstor is doing are confident their claims will be borne out. http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/21171/page1/ For those interested, here's a follow-up article with a bit more info: http://tyler.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2008/8/5/3826346.html |
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Written on: 07 August 2008 [21:26]
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ecoadmin
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Thanks for keeping the community up-to-date about the developments at EEstor. What's a bit surprising is that so far no working prototype (capacitor or car or...) has been presented to the public even though it has been announced that EEstor is close to start mass production. Could it be that the link to Lockheed Martin is causing the secrecy which is maintained around the project? Will the first applications of the EEstor system be of military type? Twike 890
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Written on: 09 August 2008 [09:50]
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Lensman
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It could well be that the first applications will be military. Lockheed-Martin has an exclusive deal with EEstor for military usage. I'm not entirely certain just what it will be used for-- not surprising, surely it's classified-- but there have been suggestions they want lightweight replacements for all the heavy batteries the troops now carry around. Apparently a lot of the high-tech equipment needs hefty batteries or battery packs. And I just now read at theeestory.com/forums, the new forum for readers of the BariumTitanate.Blogspot.com, that theft of secrets regarding new processes is rampant in the energy storage field. So there are at least two good reasons for EEstor to keep their info *very* close to their chest, and never never show a prototype to anyone who hasn't signed an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement). At least one person who was asked whether or not he'd seen a prototype said, point blank, that he couldn't talk about it because he'd signed a NDA. So maybe EEstor does have working prototypes... and maybe not. Of course, those are the optimistic reasons they're refusing to publicly demonstrate a prototype. The pessimistic reason would be they can't get it to work as they thought it would, and are now just pretending to continue to develop their technology in an effort to fool the investors and delay their company going bankrupt as long as possible. [This article was edited 1 times, at last 09.08.2008 at 09:54.] |
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