The impossibility of EEStor's impossibility is itself Impossible

"The impossibility of EEStor's impossibility is itself Impossible, " so says a group of 3rd order naysayer believers who call themselves "Ferro-Para-analytic EEstorextentialists" at a recent online gathering of the group.

"We've looked at this thing three ways from Sunday and the evidence is very clearly in our favor," said an unknown participant. When pressed to unpack the seemingly repetitive description to produce a simple belief statement, the group declined further comment.

This is further proof that splinter groups with even stranger beliefs than the fringe are emerging and could morph further into free-->ee radicals.

EEStor's Tom Weir Discusses Short Term Objectives

With the announcement of EEStor's permittivity certification milestone in May 2009 behind us, observers are watching closely to learn what comes next from the Cedar Park, TX company. Zenn Motor Company's VP of Engineering, Mike Bergeron added a bit of background on this topic via a recent interview with me this week. But Bergeron and Zenn are bound by their tech agreement to avoid being too verbose.

To see if I could learn more, I contacted Tom Weir at EEStor Inc. this morning. First, EEStor now has visibility to the necessary funding commitments that should allow them to meet their anticipated near-term objectives. Second, Weir says they are moving further along their path. Tom Weir:

"Our objective is to complete component testing by September 2009. In parallel, we will be finalizing our second objective which consists of the assembly processes necessary to deliver production quality components and/or EESU's by the end of 2009. "

Just what does component testing consist of exactly? To answer this question, I turned to a subject matter expert with several years experience in capacitor manufacturing who preferred not to be named for this article. ( However, I can reveal his username at TheEEStory.com forums as none other than CapacitorMan.) The standard component tests for capacitor manufacturers consist of the following:

1) Capacitance

2) Dissipation Factor

3) Insulation Resistance

4) Voltage Coefficient (measuring capacitance vs voltage)

5) Temperature Coefficient (measuring capacitance vs temperature)

6) Voltage breakdown

Capman went on to say that a piezoelectric coefficient test, though not widely performed elsewhere, would be important in EEStor's case "if they have the size capacitor they are talking about. " He went on, "a piezoelectric coefficient test would be important for them because it measures how much the ceramic moves when you shock it with a high voltage. "

As speculated previously, the pace of information coming out of EEStor Inc. appears to be on the uptick as it zeros in on the completion of the commercialization of the EESU.

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Zenn Motor Company Suddenly Less Mysterious?

Is it possible that EEStor Inc. partner Zenn Motor Company could suddenly become far less mysterious....almost over night? Certainly not. But they might be able to put a few issues to bed. Muahaha!

EEStor Silences DIelectric Saturation Criticism

Due to Zenn Motor Company's recent announcement of it's validation of EEStor's recent permittivity test results, we have learned that constituent materials of EEStor's energy storage system are operating in what's known as the paralectric phase in contrast to the widely predicted ferroelectric phase.  

Dielectric Saturation was widely and emotionally delivered as the death knell to EEStor's prospects for delivering on it's claims.  But this is a phenomena that does not occur in the paraelectric phase (except possibly at extremely high voltages).  

What the hell does all of this mean?   Quite simply this: if you poll the opinions of the EEStor skeptics over the past year, the #1 leading fundamental problem they had with EEStor's claims was that it would suffer from the effects of Dielectric Saturation.   They were all wrong. All wrong. 

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAH!!!!!!  So laugh it up believers, you earned it!

What do the skeptics at TheEEStory.com have to say about this?  Strangely little.  

Zenn Motors Announcement

Trading of Zenn stock was halted today at 11:20 pending a news release by the company. The request for halting came from the company.  They've never done that before apparently. 

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Zenn-Motor-Company-TSX-VENTURE-ZNN-993395.html

EEStor Throws The Blogger a Bone

If you've been following the EEStory for any period of time, you know that for some mysterious reason, EEStor occasionally speaks with me, an anonymous blogger. Possibly, if you ask Dick Weir, he might possibly say it's because he knows that I know that any Marine who risked life and limb for the freedom of insignificant people like me is and always will be a noble sacrifice. You might say I pay my EEStor bills with respect, something very foreign to many who show EEStor disdain at their business choices. In the meantime, I am very certain that EEStor is not at all concerned or interested in educating irrelevant skeptics while they make their way along their path to commercialization. That said, occasionally the stars align and I am able to acquire a few more clues about EEStor's ongoing validation of their technology, something that appears to only be understood by persons who are not simply focused on material science but also those who understand manufacturing milestones.



In that context, I am happy to learn that EEStor's recent permittivity testing took place with a few additional data points. First, the permittivity had a loss of less than 10% across the temperatures it was tested. Secondly, the frequency of the testing was 100Hz. That much was included in the 3rd party testing. Within it's own internal tests, EEStor has shared with me that the loss value is flat from 100Hz up to 100,000Hz. If you recall past blog posts, this is data that persons from Penn State were interested in obtaining to further assess the significance of the announcement.

Ordinarily, I would provide additional commentary by way of recording some interpretations of this additional data from some SME's. But my results from very cursury attempts at this were mixed. So I felt I would simply share the information and let it speak for itself...whatever its significance may be.

Energy Information Administration

Here's a pretty good resource for Official Energy Statistics from the US Government. I may have posted this before but hey, you need it. 

http://www.eia.doe.gov/

W. Michael Long is still E. EEStor Long: Terralliance Press Release points to Long's EEStor board membership

Terralliance is a Kleiner Perkins investment company with technology that makes it easier to find oil and gas. It's been discussed as the odd non-green investment in the KPCB portfolio and until today, it has kept about as low of a profile as EEStor.  Back in April, VentureBeat reported that Terralliance seemed to have slippery fingers when it came to money.  

So, today, they issued a press release--apparently their first if you go by their website-- announcing even more funding is headed their way from Kleiner AND the appointment of W. Michael Long to their board of directors.  They added a link to their front page to Mike Long's Bio which includes this sentence:

Mike serves on the board of directors of Essence, which uses evidence-based medicine to effectively manage the quality and cost of healthcare for senior populations, and EEStor, which is developing the next generation of solid-state electrical energy storage units in the form of batteries and capacitors.  

Again, this is as of today, May 15, 2009.  So, let me see if I have this straight.  Long is long both on Terralliance (an oil company) and EEStor (an end to oil) and unashamed to admit it--along with the blessing from Terralliance?  I like it.

Under Long's leadership, Terralliance technology will be modified to search the earth for EESU's.   

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Imagine the EEStor Possibilities

I declare it open season on imagining the possibilities the EEStor EESU will afford the people of earth.  There is no good reason now not to start engaging in this very enjoyable practice.   So, go ahead, don't apologize. Just sit down for a moment today and ask yourself a little question, "What will life be like with the EESU?"  

When you take a break from thinking about the possibilities, take a moment to consider some of the negative realities and how we might act together. 

LightEVS on Permittivity

EEStory reader taking research into his own hands:

http://www.theeestory.com/topics/1847

LightEVS says they have additional voltage information regarding permittivity. Not sure if that means 1V or what. If it involved Golla, it was 1Volt. If its additional data...Golla wasn't involved.

...thats my take.