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Battery Breakthrough?
Posted on Monday, January 22, 2007 @ 20:59:22 UTC by vlad
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 MIT Technology Review - Monday 22 January, 2007
Texas company says it can make a new ultracapacitor power
system to replace the electrochemical batteries in everything from cars
to laptops.
By Tyler Hamilton
A secretive Texas startup developing what some are calling a "game
changing" energy-storage technology broke its silence this week. It
announced that it has reached two production milestones and is on track
to ship systems this year for use in electric vehicles.
EEStor's ambitious goal, according to patent documents, is to
"replace the electrochemical battery" in almost every application, from
hybrid-electric and pure-electric vehicles to laptop computers to
utility-scale electricity storage. The company boldly
claims that its system, a kind of battery-ultracapacitor hybrid based
on barium-titanate powders, will dramatically outperform the best
lithium-ion batteries on the market in terms of energy density, price,
charge time, and safety. Pound for pound, it will also pack 10 times
the punch of lead-acid batteries at half the cost and without the need
for toxic materials or chemicals, according to the company. The
implications are enormous and, for many, unbelievable. Such a
breakthrough has the potential to radically transform a transportation
sector already flirting with an electric renaissance, improve the
performance of intermittent energy sources such as wind and sun, and
increase the efficiency and stability of power grids--all while
fulfilling an oil-addicted America's quest for energy security. More: http://www.techreview.com/Biztech/18086/
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New Flywheel Technology Nears Commercial Production (Score: 1)
by vlad on Monday, January 22, 2007 @ 21:40:59 UTC
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Wilmington, Massachusetts [RenewableEnergyAccess.com]
The California Energy Commission (CEC)
recently announced that a 100-kilowatt (kW) scale-power flywheel energy
storage system designed to enhance the state's electricity grid is now
one step closer to commercialization. The Smart Energy Matrix system
recently completed the Critical Project Review -- a significant
milestone that assesses the status of research contracts and evaluates
the field performance of the flywheel system.
More: Flywheel Technology [www.renewableenergyaccess.com] |
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Re: Battery Breakthrough? (Score: 1)
by malc on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 @ 00:09:49 UTC
(User Info | Send a Message) http://web.ukonline.co.uk/mripley | | When I costed solar/wind it quickly became apparant that the main cost was batteries! There are stories that self sufficiency doesn't work but when you dig deeper you find that the complaints come from people using solar/wind as an on demand system rather than a trickle feed to battery storage. Forget on demand! You have to use batteries. |
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Lockheed Martin to use EEStor's ultracapacitors (Score: 1)
by vlad on Monday, January 14, 2008 @ 23:22:32 UTC
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The defense contractor plans to integrate and market EEStor's units for military and homeland security applications.
Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin [media.cleantech.com] (NYSE: LMT [finance.google.com]) announced that it signed a deal with EEStor [media.cleantech.com] to use the secretive Ceder Park, Texas, company's ultracapacitors for military and homeland security applications. Lockheed
Martin, the world's No. 1 defense contractor, did not disclose
financial terms for the exclusive international rights agreement. The
company said EEStor is developing a ceramic battery chemistry that
could provide 10 times the energy density of lead acid batteries at one
tenth the weight and volume... More: http://media.cleantech.com/2272/lockheed-martin-to-use-eestor-batteries [media.cleantech.com]
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EEStor update from MIT Technology Review (Score: 1)
by vlad on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 @ 22:35:53 UTC
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.zpenergy.com | Link: EEStor update from MIT Technology Review [nextbigfuture.com]
also see:
Better Batteries Charge Up
A startup reports progress on a battery that stores more energy than lithium-ion ones.
By Tyler Hamilton
A Texas startup says that it has taken a big step toward high-volume
production of an ultracapacitor-based energy-storage system that, if
claims hold true, would far outperform the best lithium-ion batteries
on the market.
Dick Weir, founder and chief executive of EEStor, a startup based in
Cedar Park, TX, says that the company has manufactured materials that
have met all certification milestones for crystallization, chemical
purity, and particle-size consistency. The results suggest that the
materials can be made at a high-enough grade to meet the company's
performance goals. The company also said a key component of the
material can withstand the extreme voltages needed for high energy
storage.
"These advancements provide the pathway to meeting our present requirements," Weir says. "This data says we hit the home run."... ... More: http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/21171/?a=f [www.technologyreview.com] |
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EEStor, Inc. Announces (Score: 1)
by vlad on Monday, May 11, 2009 @ 19:57:01 UTC
(User Info | Send a Message) http://www.zpenergy.com | EEStor, Inc. Announces Relative Permittivity Certification of Their Composition Modified Barium-Titanate Powders
CEDAR PARK, Texas, April 22
/PRNewswire/ -- EEStor, Inc. announces relative permittivity
certification of their Composition Modified Barium-Titanate powders.
The third party certification tests were performed by Texas Research
International's Dr. Edward G. Golla, PhD., Laboratory
Director. He has certificated that EEStor's patented and patent pending
Composition Modified Barium-Titanate Powders have met and/or exceeded a
relative permittivity of 22,500.
EEStor feels this is a huge milestone which opens the advancement of
key products and services in the electrical energy storage markets of
today. The automotive and renewable energy sectors are a few of the key
markets that would benefit greatly with the technology.
Company background
EEStor, Inc. develops solid-state electrical energy storage units
(EESU's) in the form of batteries and capacitors. This technology has a
wide variety of application use which includes with the added benefit
of being longer lasting, lighter, more powerful, and more
environmentally friendly than current technology in use.
SOURCE EEStor, Inc.
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