From: thomas malloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Electron flywheels - perhaps four years in the future
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 21:34:37 -0600
Hello again Richard,
The first task is to develop wire. That is a three year program at $6
million/year = $18 million. We expect to begin that program by the end of
this quarter.
I'm glad to hear that you're getting close to fabricating a wire Mark
Once wire exists, a licensee is likely to focus on the energy storage
application. We would expect to work with them and cross license any
patents they develop.
I've heard you talk about the potential for doing things like magnetic
levitation, which I assume would involve winding a coil out of it. Your
post raised a question about ultra capacitors. If you were to fabricate a
plate of your material, and sandwitch it between a layer of high dielectric
strength material, would it be possible to produce a ultra capacitor? When
we had the tread about ultra capacitors, I read the pages of the
manufactures of the existing ultra capacitors. As I recall, they were
operating at a rather low voltage, 2 volts, I'm wondering why so low
voltage? As I recall, the amount of energy that a capacitor can store is
directly related to the voltage.
At one time we looked at capacitor applications and concluded it was not
anything we could afford to do. A licensee might be able to afford it.
Since our parent firm, Magnetic Power Inc., (www.magneticpowerinc.com)
expects to license generators widely beginning later this year, candidate
firms for developing the UMES are likely to emerge synergistically.
Are you talking about a F E generator? Yes. However, F E is a misnomer as
there are always capital costs. PV is an excellent example. Most cannot
afford it.
As with the energy work, the paucity of Angel investment since the dot.com
crash, has delayed what could have been in production by now...had there
been sufficient availability of the necessary capital.
Mark
From: "RC Macaulay wrote
What is a UMES? A SMES (Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage) system
that uses our polymer, ambient tmperature, Ultraconductors.
Mark
