Drive 500 miles on a 5 minute charge, new form of electrical storage

[hansvonlieven]

G'day all,

Received to day an E-mail which said:

I came across this article on www.cbsnews. com, sounds very interesting,
if they can actually pull it off. I am including the beginning of the
article:
(Page 1 of 2)AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 4, 2007

(CBS/AP) Millions of inventions pass quietly through the U.S. patent
office each year. Patent No. 7,033,406 did, too, until energy insiders
spotted six words in the filing that sounded like a death knell for the
internal combustion engine.

An Austin-based startup called EEStor promised "technologies for
replacement of electrochemical batteries," meaning a motorist could
plug in a car for five minutes and drive 500 miles roundtrip between
Dallas and Houston without gasoline.

The patent is attached to this post. What do you think of this one?

Hans von Lieven

[Davetech]

Story also carried on CNN today:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/09/07/electric.car.batteries.ap/index.html


If it pans out, it will even surpass the invention of toilet paper!

Seriously, though, I think it should deserve dancing in the streets around the world, IF they follow up by  developing Earth-friendly methods to collect the energy to stuff these things with.

Won't do much good if we are still burning coal and oil to charge 'em up with.

[Omega_0]

Won't do much good if we are still burning coal and oil to charge 'em up with.

Surely, its a good news.
IMO, even if we burn fossil fuels to get the electricity, a tech which eliminates the need to transport them and to burn them in each and every car is still better. Its impossible to control the pollution produced by millions of cars but its possible to do so when the pollution is centralized in power plants.

The money saved in transport and refining of oil can be used to process the harmful byproducts of power plants.
We have other options to produce power eg hydro or wind, but we dont have any choice in case of cars.

[hansvonlieven]

G'day all,

I thought the same as the two of you, that's why I posted this. I also thought it would cause a bit of a stir in a forum such as this, just have a look at how much interest there really is from the number of postings and the number of times this was actually read.

It would appear hardly anyone gives a stuff. Fascinating.

Hans von Lieven

[lancaIV]

www.electriclouie.com   : 4 hp per pound

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