CNN piece on oil spills in Nigeria. A taste of the true cost of our oil dependency.
According to three separate individuals with unverifiable sources, Lockheed Martin will manufacture or assemble EEStor military EESU's at manufacturing facilities in Marietta, Georgia. (see also) A quick sweep through a series of regulatory resources including the Environmental Protection Agency's permitting databases could not support the claim. Furthermore, the sources would not ID their
If you look back over the past couple of years, there have been some pretty extraordinary world events which could have provided a fantastic backdrop for an EEStor reveal. Let's list and examine some of these events
1) Run up in Oil Prices in 1st half of 2008
With all the media talking about how high the prices were going, it would have been one hell of a story to latch on to, "Battery
According to officials within the Department of Energy's ARPA division, any recently announced winner of funding for the Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST) program would have been required to provide a "strong potential to meet or exceed the Primary Technical Requirements" for the funding opportunity. Those requirements include EEStor-level energy densities of
Depending on your version of reality, the USPTO has either granted EEStor yet another patent (this time for Utility Grid Storage applications penned originally at, at...at night) or provided more fuel for hallucinating EEStor believers. That second link is to a discussion of a new letter from Carl Nelson penned in November 2008 which goes into greater detail regarding EEStor's claims to have a