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EEStor Capacitors- "This could change everything" by Lloyd
Alter, Toronto on 03. 6.06 Science & Technology (alternative energy)
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Tyler Hamilton of the Toronto Star and website Clean Break has been digging
around a very secretive company. Asking them for information they said: "EEStor
is not making public statements at present time," company co-founder and chief
executive Richard Weir replied when the Toronto Star requested an interview via
email. "EEStor would also like to have you and your paper not publish any
articles about our company and the Toronto Star is certainly not authorized to
publish this response." which of course he published instantly in Canada's
biggest newspaper, BoingBoing style. . What they are doing in Austin with their
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers money is developing a "parallel plate
capacitor with barium titanate as the dielectric" or hypercapacitor as John
recently coined. Says Tyler: "BusinessWeek reported an interesting comment from
Kleiner's John Doerr, who recently spoke at a California event where tech VCs
gather to make their predictions for the year. Doerr
reportedly referred to an investment in an energy storage company he declined
to name, calling it Kleiner's "Highest-risk, highest-reward" investment."
Tyler's source describes it: (warning: if you continue reading you have to eat
this post)
The batteries fully charge in minutes as opposed to hours.
* Whereas with lead acid batteries you might get lucky to have 500 to 700
recharge cycles, the EEStor technology has been tested up to a million cycles
with no material degradation.
* EEStor's technology could be used in more than low-speed electric vehicles.
The company envisions using it for full-speed pure electric vehicles,
hybrid-electrics (including plug-ins), military applications, backup power and
even large-scale utility storage for intermittent renewable power sources such
as wind and solar.
* Because it's a solid state battery rather than a chemical battery, such
being the case for lithium ion technology, there would be no overheating and
thus safety concerns with using it in a vehicle.
* Finally, with volume manufacturing it's expected to be cost-competitive
with lead-acid technology.
"It's the holy grail of battery technology," said my source. "It means you
could do a highway capable electric city car that would recharge in three or
four minutes and drive you from Toronto to Montreal. Consumers wouldn't notice
the difference from driving an electric car versus a gas-powered car."
From his Star article:
Energy storage has long been the bottleneck for innovation, holding back new
energy-sucking features in mobile devices and preventing everything from the
electric car to renewable power systems from reaching their full potential.
Build a radically better battery at lower cost, experts say, and the world we
know will be forever transformed.
"There's been nothing big or disruptive, and we're due for it," says Nicholas
Parker, chairman of the Cleantech Venture Network, which tracks investment in
so-called clean technologies. He says energy storage is one of the hottest
areas for venture capital funding right now. "Right across the board, better
energy storage is essential."
Among EEStor's claims is that its "electrical energy storage unit" could pack
nearly 10 times the energy punch of a lead-acid battery of similar weight and,
under mass production, would cost half as much.
It also says its technology more than doubles the energy density of
lithium-ion batteries in most portable computer and mobile gadgets today, but
could be produced at one-eighth the cost.
If that's not impressive enough, EEStor says its energy storage technology is
"not explosive, corrosive, or hazardous" like lead-acid and most lithium-ion
systems, and will outlast the life of any commercial product it powers. It can
also absorb energy quickly, meaning a small electric car containing a
17-kilowatt-hour system could be fully charged in four to six minutes versus
hours for other battery technologies, the company claims.
According to patent documents obtained by the Star, EEStor's invention will
do no less than "replace the electrochemical battery" where it's already used
in hybrid and electric vehicles, power tools, electronic gadgets and renewable
energy systems, from solar-powered homes to grid-connected wind farms.
"If everything they say is true, then that's pretty amazing," says MacMurray
Whale, an energy analyst at Sprott Securities and a former professor of
mechanical engineering at the University of Victoria. "To do all of that is
unheard of when you look at any other battery technology out there."
Tyler Hamilton does not impress easily- he was not impressed with us for
falling head over heels in love with the magenn turbine Don't bother googling
for a website for EEStor- you will get a clothing site. But do read ::Clean
Break and ::The Toronto Star before they send in the lawyers or break his
fingers.
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