Chris Zell wrote:
Where's the mass commercialization of this promising technology? ( they keep promising!)
Who knows. My guess is that it does not work as well as they wish it did. It wears out quickly, or explodes.
I personally believe that ONE GOOD BATTERY could solve most of our energy woes, defeat the terrorists, bankrupt OPEC, and stop the global warming controversy.
The device described at vanadiumbattery.com is a conventional electric power storage battery, except you can replace all of the electrolyte quickly, giving it the same advantage that a fuel cell has. I can see where this kind of improved storage battery would make a big difference, especially with transportation. It probably would put OPEC out of business over the long term, but it would take 30 years, I suppose, because we would have to build lots of electric power generators and so on.
A ZPE or CF battery-like device would do the job overnight. But we should not call that a "battery" -- although some people have, especially when referring to the tritium powered gadgets. That terminology confuses the issue.
- Jed
