Given the stealthiness, we were surprised when Sridhar showed us - for the very first time - how he makes the "secret sauce" of his fuel cell on the cheap.
He said he bakes sand and cuts it(power cells) into little squares that are turned into a ceramic. Then he coats it with green and black "inks" that he developed. Sridhar told Stahl there is a secret formula. "And you take that and you apply that. You paint that on either side of this white ceramic to get a green layer and a black layer. And…that's it.
secret formula=pixie dust=scam. Sorry, ain't buying it.
Not a scam. Sridhar isn't going to divulge the chemical formula for the anode, cathode and electrolyte on broadcast television and he had to keep things simple because he was, after all, speaking to that nitwit Leslie Stahl.
These might be self-organizing nanoscale inks - they’re using such a concept to produce thin-film solar panels: http://www.nanosolar.com/
Anything that you’re planning to patent should be kept secret if you want to protect your patent.
yep, and did I read that it was "wireless".
I don't think that I'd want to get in the way of the energy transmission path. ZAP! ka-POW!
I'm an EE, and this article pegged my BS meter.