Ping!...........
Due diligence is a good thing...............
How can he possibly be skeptical?? It's a paradigm shift, for crying out loud! -
"It's a paradigm shift," said Ian Clifford, chief executive of Toronto-based ZENN Motor Co., which has licensed EEStor's invention.
sounds cool if they can make it work. Imagine the profits!
While I haven't got the scientific background to comment intelligently about whether this technology will do what is claimed, nor even the facts to give to someone who is so qualified, statements like that bring to mind something that Arthur C. Clarke said:
'If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong.'
Generally, it is a mistake to bet against what inventors and engineers can do - given sufficient time and resources. This particular technology may or may not do as claimed - but someday in the not terribly distant future, someone will do the trick. Then the Arabs can go back to being nomadic goat herders.
This reminds me of the pills that turn water into gasoline. I’ll wait until I see it for myself.
Quick, somebody post the “Not this shitte again” picture.
How can you file a patent on a promise?
“PROMISED ‘technologies for replacement of electrochemical batteries,’”
On the plus side, I don't think there would be much blood. Just a nice (ick) barbeque smell.
I haven't run the numbers but that claim implies a very high charging rate. I'd suggest standing back, way back.
It’s been a while since I posted...I’d love to comment on this story, but I have an NDA on file with this company...I was involved with a project to try to adapt this technology to work at a smaller scale than what is discussed in this article. I’m not involved anymore, but I think the NDA still prevents me from discussing my opinions/experiences with this technology. A good primer on ultracapacitors can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercapacitor . One thing that is not often talked about is this...my experience (and I am not an EE) is that things that can be charged very quickly, can also discharge very quickly. Food for thought.
ultracapacitors + Nano carbon-fibre / titanium oxide Solar cells to fill them.
Bye bye petro-cash-cow.
I’ve been waiting to see product for two years. They were supposed to release a working prototype last year.
I hope this is for real but the whole thing is starting to smell bad.
If they can produce a real product that meets thier claims, whole industries will change.
Power companies can use base load generators to produce all their power = lower electric prices.
Cars will not need engines = no need to import petroleum. It would charge in minutes or you would swap out units at a filling station. They also wouldn’t wear out like batteries.
The military will finally get their big friqqin lasers.
The windmill people will finally be able to produce power in a manner that can be planned and provided when it is useful.
Home back up power will be cheap and quiet and could be used for base load adjustment.
I wonder if this thing is a lightening magnet. I once was struck by lightening as I toped a hill during a thunder storm. It blew off my CB antenna and fried the electronics in my Pickup.
Big auto & Big oil will never allow this product to market.
/sarcasm
Sounds like the invention will be bought up by GM and never see the light of day.
bfl
If it SEEMS too good to be true....