Aug
1
Will EEStor Move The Earth?
August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment
This week saw EEStor CEO and president Richard Weir, who is also a co-inventor, announce that its processes and equipment have apparently been verified by Ed Golla, lab director of Texas Research International, a multidisciplinary research, development and testing company in Austin, Texas. EEStor added that Ian Treviranus of Horiba Instruments says the company’s technology [...]
Jan
15
Checking the Facts In the EEStore Lockheed Agreement
January 15, 2008 | 7 Comments
Last week Lockheed Martin and EEStor announced an agreement to pursue production of EEStor’s design of electrical storage. This has opened a wide-ranging debate about what EEStor is up to and what the results could be. The EEStor technology is described across the board from battery to ultra capacitor, as having 10 times [...]
Nov
28
The Wedding is Over, The Battery Marries The Supercapacitor
November 28, 2007 | 1 Comment
It had to happen, joy, congratulations and celebrations. The Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organization, Australia’s national science agency and Cleantech Ventures, a nearly worldwide consortium of venture capital and other businesses, announced the formation and startup of Smart Storage Pty, Ltd. to develop and commercialize a marriage of lead acid battery technology and supercapacitors. [...]
Sep
4
What Super Capacitors Could Do
September 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I have been bugged all Labor Day weekend about super capacitors. Having used standard capacitors in most of the equipment around here and learned to diagnosis them in single-phase motors for starting and running I have a hardened sense of their value.
Yesterday I posted a bit about them to distinguish them from your everyday capacitor. [...]
Sep
3
What Are Super Capacitors and What Might They Do?
September 3, 2007 | 2 Comments
A capacitor is simply a device that stores electricity, or more accurately electrons. The name comes from well, capacity. That ability is what makes them interesting as storage devices, which will become more important as our economy migrates to a more electrified state. You can be a capacitor when sliding your feet [...]
