2012 ARPA-E Technology Showcase
Envia Co-Founder, Sujeet Kumar with A123 Systems' Yet-Ming Chiang
The 2012 ARPA-E Innovation Summit kicked off this week amid ongoing reports of renewable energy's funeral toll and various politically oriented DOE quasi-scandals. The pressure to deliver a winner is so intense at this time, DOE recently hired a full time psychologist to deal with the pervasive
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We've been here before. Don't get your hopes too high.
I posted my latest EEStor blog article on TheEEStory.com last night. Did you get to read it? It made a few people's mouth water.
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
This is me helping sell a few copies of Tyler Hamilton's new book, "Mad Like Tesla" which contains new information about EEStor. It really does contain new information about EEStor...that I did not know previously. It has fresh EEStor research hitherto unrevealed publicly except in this new book available on Amazon.
What new information you ask? If I told you, you wouldn't buy the book. I
Late Friday, a mysterious video posted to YouTube purported to be of EEStor founder Dick Weir making wild pronouncements about EEStor technology and it's potential impact on the US economy. After a brief discussion with EEStor today, I learned it is not credible.
For years, curious searchers of EEStor truth have wondered to themselves, "how can those guys be in high volume production in a tiny strip mall?" Well, thanks to yet another anonymous source, we are now able to confirm the powder production is going gangbusters. Observe.
Secret EEStor Powder Storage Site Cedar Park, TX
As you can see, the powder production is exceeding the capacity of the
As you rock back and forth with drool escaping on to your clothes and things around you in response to TheEEStory.com being down, it may be a good time to consider whether your addiction to my website is really the best thing for you. Sure, it is great fun to talk with others every day about the same mostly silent battery company, but is it good for you? Perhaps this is a fork in the road for
I've written about Vinod Khosla's interests in energy storage several times. He has many strong opinions about many areas of cleantech but energy storage has to be placed near the top of what he is passionate about. Previously, I reported on Khosla's investment in Recapping Inc., a startup intent on revolutionizing ceramic based capacitor storage using insight gained from semiconductor
When the weather warms up, weddings begin populating the calendar & love is in the air. In the business world, corporate courting occasionally leads to similar unifications. Today, Zenn Motor Company announced the intention to repeat their vows with EEStor in a press release issued this morning. New board chairman, Jim Kofman pledged "to increase its interaction with EEStor and, where
Source: Masshightech.com
Six years after leading the Kleiner Perkins effort to invest in EEStor, billionaire venture capitalist Bill Joy has finally commented publicly about the investment at the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge this past Thursday evening. During an open Q&A session, an attendee asked about progress at EEStor and Joy spent about five minutes talking about energy storage in
Thanks to a dedicated reader who has contributed research to numerous items of interest to the EEStory, we have an interesting book excerpt to read in order to get us into the mindset of Dick Weir in his fund raising days. What am I talking about?
The book Ship of Gold was published in 1998 and written by Gary Kinder. It documents the story of "maverick scientist and entrepreneur Tommy
Note: the following article is based on several German news articles I read recently. To preserve accuracy, I felt it appropriate to abandon the horrible translations made possible by Google and other similar tools and just hack it together myself. I think you will find the significance of the story easier to grasp as a result.
A German company--DBM Energy-- has identified a way to connect tiny
Source: Google Images
Wired's Noah Shachtman & Spencer Ackerman have been publishing a series of investigative articles attacking the ethics of DARPA head Regina Dugan. The controversy centers around the fact that prior to her appointment to head the US DoD's premier research organization, she helped launch a startup company, RedXDefense, devoted in part to creating better detection of
Image: Starships.com? WT?
Nah, I'm kidding. It's probably just technical difficulties. You know, difficulties that are technical meaning techniques and technologies are technically tenacious at this time. Don't worry though, you don't really need TheEEStory.com right now. You have this blog post to read which I can tell you are definitely enjoying. I know I am enjoying writing it. Tell me,
As Tuesday Feb 1, 2011, Lockheed Martin maintains that there have been "no changes" in it's EEStor agreement. "Our rights agreement is still in effect," Craig Van Bebber wrote in an email to me today.
To find out why Lockheed would maintain such a long term relationship with EEStor Inc and get virtually nothing in return, I decided to go under cover once again to see if perhaps a nugget of
Due to an inadvertent misconfiguration early in the process, the EEStor pilot production line under construction in their Cedar Park, TX facility has been producing patent applications instead of capacitor components for the past couple years. No word on when that might get corrected. In the meantime, the latest EEStor patent application, published today, January 20, 2011 has to do with with
Cott & Hancock Discuss ZMC Strategy
Former Zenn Motor Company Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Dennis Hancock is suing ZMC & executive Brian Cott. The case is summarized in a supposedly publicly available document from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice Court File No. CV-10-411405. According to the document, Hancock is seeking $20Mil+, a company car powered by an EESU, a lifetime
Imagine for a second that instead of being the run of the mill shlub that you are today, you had actually quite an interesting life which of course often means you would have had to of had an interesting beginning. Computers are interesting so let's say you were around when some of the interesting innovations in computers were literally coming online. One such interesting time would have been
Source: NY Times
Like most public officials, DOE Secretary Chu can be both praised and criticized for the choices he has made to advance the mission of the agency he leads. My initial worry with Chu was that maybe he didn't prioritize energy storage enough in his overall plan so that research funding was being spread too thinly across various renewable energy technologies. I also worried
