12:51PM Thursday Jul 30, 2009
By Pat Pilcher
Transcripts and audio files of a leaked phone conversation between the
secretive CEO of Texas-based eeStore, Dick Weir, and an as yet
undisclosed source have been doing the rounds online for the last 24
hours creating a stir amongst technologists and environmentalists
around the world.
Electric vehicles have been held up by battery production expense - but a Texas company may have the answer with a ground-breaking mega-capacitor.
Whilst you'd be forgiven for thinking that a leaked phone
conversation on the internet was merely yawn worthy, this particular
conversation saw eeStore CEO, Weir confirming that they are mere months
away from launching an uber capacitor which is an electrical component
that would fully charge up in minutes yet hold enough juice to power
electronic gadgets for days.
Should the scuttlebutt around this
leaked conversation be something more than a cleverly orchestrated PR
stunt, and eeStor's invention actually work, the implications are
nothing short of revolutionary...
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