tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84894752851585298562024-03-16T14:52:44.488-04:00EEStor Ultracapacitors: Battery Revolution begins with Electric Cars?News, Reviews, Interviews and Overviews of all things related to EEStor Inc.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger430125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-13390068442083495112015-04-13T12:21:00.000-04:002015-04-13T12:21:51.562-04:00TheEEStory: The End
I started this blog about 8 years ago, it was just an experiment. I had hoped EEStor's claims of a new type of energy storage device might pan out but it wasn't my life-long passion to find better batteries. Over the course of covering this story, I did find a passion for improved energy storage and became captivated by all of the possibilities.
At some point, this became a bit ofUnknownnoreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-81779753887493647852013-10-07T20:20:00.001-04:002013-10-07T20:20:29.860-04:00It's Been A Long TimeBut here I am posting at this old blog. Just like Old Times.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-20853834140565344012013-07-29T19:10:00.000-04:002013-07-29T19:10:05.425-04:00Ning OutageCheck here for updates on the Ning outage producing the 500 errors.
http://status.ning.com
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-39942223104049882102013-04-02T18:24:00.000-04:002013-04-02T18:31:10.571-04:00Ah Yes, The Good Old Days (EEStor Meanderings)
I started writing this blog about EEStor in 2007. If you look at the article counts each year, you can sort of get a feel for how the EEStory has progressed. In 2007, I published 8 very brief articles which amounted to little more than link consolidation: basically a summary of what was available on the Internet at the time. EEStor published one press release that year: Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-21294476350975388532012-08-14T21:34:00.001-04:002012-08-14T21:34:52.475-04:00Eestor begins Accepting OrdersHuh?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-60165844362314845452012-05-15T23:08:00.001-04:002012-05-15T23:08:49.215-04:00EEStor Still GroggyEEStor released a press release today.
Read about it here.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-16496204065806527202012-05-05T18:09:00.001-04:002012-05-05T18:09:25.871-04:00Is Google Purposely Profiting From Your Pain?
Prepare yourself for another round of questions about Google's cooperation with evil practices thanks to a video posted yesterday by Rexxfield founder Michael Roberts. In the video, Roberts advances a well thought out theory that Google may be intentionally promoting search results which allege misdeeds of the persons being searched for in order to generate more advertising revenue.  Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-71090515120883891042012-04-24T15:26:00.001-04:002012-04-24T15:40:50.294-04:00Lockheed Self-Powered Ad-hoc Network with "Field and Forget" Energy Storage
This is an interesting video posted on YouTube in February 2012. Seems like I would have remembered this technology if I had come across it previously. Check out the description of the technology which I will quote in detail:
"Uploaded by arronlee33 on Feb 7, 2012A covert, perpetually self-powered wireless sensor network developed by Lockheed Martin could Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-20265390446300234562012-03-27T18:24:00.001-04:002012-03-27T18:24:08.528-04:00ZENN AGM: MUAHAHAAHAHAAHAAHA!!!! "It's Coming"
The 2012 Zenn Annual Ge.......MUAHAHAAHAHAAHAAHA!!!.....neral meeting took place today with Zenn interim CEO Jim Kofman laying......MUAHAHAAHAHAAHAAHA!!!....down the law (remember, he is an attorney) about what comes next in the EEStory. Firstly, some of the revealed facts.....MUAHAHAAHAHAAHAAHA!!!
According to Kofman, who sounded confident and sober(!), EEStor will make a public Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-43504469759844345862012-03-26T17:54:00.001-04:002012-03-26T18:01:36.090-04:00Zenn Gives EEStor More Cash For Less Secrets
It's been awhile since Zenn Motor Company has said anything about EEStor Inc. And even when compelled to say something about EEStor, the topic of timing has been an anathema due to several apparent miscalculations. The topic of time is the kiss of death at this point in the EEStory saga. But today, Zenn has made itself ready to tempt fate one more time with yet another Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-18307308398917362682012-03-19T09:48:00.000-04:002012-03-19T11:16:43.937-04:00Forsale: The EEstor Dream?
Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Eestor has officially launched a line of Eestor collectors items?
Or, they are out of....how shall we say.....cash?
Let the debates begin!!!!
UPDATE #1: So, it looks like EEStor is selling some equipment which they haven't used "in production."
There are 10 pieces of equipment up for bid from EEStor on LabX.com. The equipment costs range Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-3222888681687465282012-03-16T14:47:00.001-04:002012-03-16T14:47:12.584-04:00Envia Envy
If you noticed in the comments section of my previous blog article on Envia, Atul Kapadia dropped by to clarify some items in part to tamp down some of my wilder speculative notions. I decided to contact him directly to verify it was indeed him who left the comments and then ask a few more questions. I'm going to post the exchange note style for those who hate my writing style (Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-56887751972555364782012-02-29T09:48:00.001-05:002012-02-29T09:48:47.761-05:00Envia Systems: ARPA-E's Greatest Success To Date?
2012 ARPA-E Technology Showcase
Envia Co-Founder, Sujeet Kumar with A123 Systems' Yet-Ming Chiang
The 2012 ARPA-E Innovation Summit kicked off this week amid ongoing reports of renewable energy's funeral toll and various politically oriented DOE quasi-scandals. The pressure to deliver a winner is so intense at this time, DOE recently hired a full time psychologist to dealUnknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-70497645949033350832012-02-14T14:42:00.003-05:002012-02-14T14:43:43.117-05:00New Recapping Patent Publishes (EEStor Competitor Perks Up)
"High energy density electrical energy storage devices
Document Type and Number:
United States Patent Application 20120034528
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
High electrical energy density storage devices are disclosed. The devices include electrochemical capacitors, electrolytic capacitors, hybrid electrochemical-electrolytic capacitors and secondary batteries. Advantageously, the energy Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-84062940543005800192012-02-09T16:20:00.002-05:002012-02-09T16:20:57.997-05:00Maybe. Maybe not.
Thanks FM. You freak.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-17336159453264858472012-02-01T13:20:00.002-05:002012-02-07T11:19:19.949-05:00Why the Natural Born Citizen Controversy Disenfranchises Democrats
President Obama
Huh?
We interrupt the normal broadcasting of this blog to bring you a timely article on a subject few Americans seem to understand due to the media blackout imposed by God knows who in the USA. Warning: Readers outside the USA may or may not be interested.
Many people in this country are only recently beginning to disentangle two separate issues having to do with Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-2183026096310028382012-01-19T21:31:00.001-05:002012-01-19T21:31:52.595-05:00Fresh EEStor Controversy
Black & Decker. Boeing. Snap-On Tools. Vextrex Corporation. Lockheed Martin. According to new documents released by the USPTO, EEStor's use of the EESU trademark began with "budgetary quotes" submitted to these prospective customers going back to 2002/2003 time frame. But are price quotes sufficient activity to constitute actual use of the EESU trademark in commerce? Read this. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-21203759964736990632012-01-05T12:19:00.002-05:002012-01-05T12:19:56.053-05:00Aggressive EEStor Skeptic Claims Lockheed Support for EEStor Debacle: Opens Hornet's Nest with Prominent Canadian Attorney Now Running Zenn? (probably not)
Rud Istivan is a motivated EEStor skeptic who has enough bravado to make his objections to EEStor Inc.'s validity extremely public. Last night, he has made a direct attack on EEStor with a claim of Lockheed Martin support. A former colleague of Mort Topfer's at Motorola, Istivan has a significant and accomplished career to stand upon when making a technological claim. I've Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-41282679000906435722011-12-17T20:25:00.004-05:002011-12-17T20:30:04.480-05:00From Raw Materials to End Product
For years now, EEStorians have scoured the Internet for the smallest tidbit of new information about EEStor in order to dissect every piece of data from every angle leading into the never terminating debate we all love so much. One frequent source hit by the cadre is LinkedIn.com. Unfortunately, some of you have been asleep at the wheel and allowed me to regain my mojo when it comesUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-70707229144296970522011-11-22T09:50:00.002-05:002011-11-22T09:50:39.096-05:00ZNN Trading Halt?http://tmx.quotemedia.com/article.php?newsid=4783244&qm_symbol=ZNN:CA
We've been here before. Don't get your hopes too high.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-12136798428388828452011-11-03T17:28:00.000-04:002011-11-03T17:28:06.406-04:00Latest Blog ArticleI posted my latest EEStor blog article on TheEEStory.com last night. Did you get to read it? It made a few people's mouth water.
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-48973658307436473842011-10-31T23:50:00.000-04:002011-10-31T23:50:41.618-04:00I'm Fairly Lucky Now that Trevor Parker is following me on TwitterI haven't really been a big fan of Twitter due to the dominance that celebrities have over this communication medium. If people aren't accidentally posting nude photos of themselves, they are often inebriated and issuing a very short speech on a topic we don't trust them to understand (their life for example). So, what becomes important given a situation such as this isn't who says Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-78689705533006907012011-10-13T23:14:00.000-04:002011-10-13T23:14:14.460-04:00Duke Nukem Forever Release Means EEStor Can Take Forever and Still Might DeliverOne of the things that bothers me (even about myself) is all of the whining and BS surrounding EEStor's obviously L A T E delivery of verifiably working technology. Well, believers and doubters, keep your tears to yourself because nothing could be worse than promising a simple software game and delivering it 14 years later. We're talking about energy storage breakthroughs not Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-47413894305199048552011-10-06T11:21:00.000-04:002011-10-06T11:21:53.447-04:00Kleiner, Khosla & WSGR Together on Battery Start Up?I've written a lot about Khosla's interest in EEStor over the past couple years. I've also written about Khosla's interest in general in energy storage and Recapping Inc. in particular. So, I find it interesting that Katie Fehrenbacher is reporting to have "heard that Kleiner’s John Doerr and Khosla’s Vinod Khosla are taking Board seats at QuantumScape," which is based on Stanford's "Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8489475285158529856.post-48572646719686310802011-10-06T01:27:00.001-04:002011-10-06T05:29:58.836-04:00iPhone 5 Delay/Schedule Kills Apple Founder Steve Jobs: Yes, DeadLess than 24 hours after Apple Inc. created its first post-Steve Jobs, "oh shit" marketing moment by failing to extinguish the world media's most prolific prediction failure (nominally) in the history of human existence, Steve Jobs' internal components have crashed irreparably & permanently. There is no backup.
Palo Alto, CA coroners Jim Balsillie & Michael Lazaridis report that Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1