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CNN Money ^ | September 20 2006 | Erick Schonfeld and Jeanette Borzo

Posted on 09/21/2006 8:51:08 AM PDT by Malsua

The Innovation: A ceramic power source for electric cars that could blow away the combustion engine

The Disrupted: Oil companies and carmakers that don't climb aboard

Forget hybrids and hydrogen-powered vehicles. EEStor, a stealth company in Cedar Park, Texas, is working on an "energy storage" device that could finally give the internal combustion engine a run for its money -- and begin saving us from our oil addiction. "To call it a battery discredits it," says Ian Clifford, the CEO of Toronto-based electric car company Feel Good Cars, which plans to incorporate EEStor's technology in vehicles by 2008.

EEStor's device is not technically a battery because no chemicals are involved. In fact, it contains no hazardous materials whatsoever. Yet it acts like a battery in that it stores electricity. If it works as it's supposed to, it will charge up in five minutes and provide enough energy to drive 500 miles on about $9 worth of electricity. At today's gas prices, covering that distance can cost $60 or more; the EEStor device would power a car for the equivalent of about 45 cents a gallon.

(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Technical
KEYWORDS: alternativefuels; energy; perpetualmotion
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I checked, didn't see this posted.

I think this is a great Idea. Capacitors instead of batteries. Of course, this company is holding its cards close to the chest, so who knows...may be BS.

At any rate, it's a promising technology. I'd much rather ramp up our domestic power grid than import more oil and enrich our enemies. I'm also for drilling everywhere, putting up windmills where it makes sense, solar where it makes sense, and a pebble bed reactor for every yard! Let those sheiks drink the stuff.

1 posted on 09/21/2006 8:51:09 AM PDT by Malsua
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To: Malsua

Our power grid would be a better investment, anyway.

Besides, nuclear can be made a cheap source of energy.


2 posted on 09/21/2006 8:53:18 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
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To: Malsua

I want my own PBR...


3 posted on 09/21/2006 8:53:19 AM PDT by null and void (There's no nothing. End of report. Any questions?)
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To: Malsua

It would be very nice if this works.


4 posted on 09/21/2006 8:54:13 AM PDT by knittnmom (...surrounded by reality)
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To: Malsua

Show me ...


5 posted on 09/21/2006 8:54:30 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: null and void

I'm making a car that runs on PBR...oh, that's not the same thing?


6 posted on 09/21/2006 8:55:03 AM PDT by Andonius_99 (They [liberals] aren't humans, but rather a species of hairless retarded ape.)
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To: Malsua
I can't wait for the day I can stop filling up at gas stations.
I can already hear the keyboard clickings of all the naysayers descending on this thread...
7 posted on 09/21/2006 8:55:14 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Malsua

I really feel like the momentum is growing, and someone sooner or later is going to come up with a new technology that will work.


8 posted on 09/21/2006 8:57:45 AM PDT by Huck (There is a $2.00 service charge for this tagline---do you still wish to proceed?)
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To: Malsua

Can anyone figure out from the short article if this is a super capacitor?


9 posted on 09/21/2006 8:57:55 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Malsua

Fans of old science fiction movies could have predicted that capcitators would be the key to the future.


10 posted on 09/21/2006 8:58:04 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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I've read up a bit on SuperCapacitors lately. I got interested due to an interest in Car Audio, believe it or not. I was not aware that the technology had advanced this far. I guess at this point, I'd have to see it to believe it, but I certainly hope its true.

Something like this, with a massive investment in Nuclear Electric Power Plants, would be sweet.

11 posted on 09/21/2006 8:58:25 AM PDT by Paradox (The "smarter" the individual, the greater his power of self-delusion.)
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To: Dixie Yooper

the hybrid folks have been looking at so-called "ultracaps" for years
so far nothing has beat batteries
if this is a game-changer these guys will be rich
then again anybody with a good word processing program and an internet address can issue a good press release these days


12 posted on 09/21/2006 8:58:35 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation

CBS can't.


13 posted on 09/21/2006 8:59:34 AM PDT by east1234 (It's the borders stupid. It's also WWIV.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
Can anyone figure out from the short article if this is a super capacitor?

I think it is a flux capacitor.
14 posted on 09/21/2006 9:00:24 AM PDT by Thrusher (“There’s nothing like the B-2 when it comes to giving peace a chance.")
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To: Andonius_99; null and void
Huh?


15 posted on 09/21/2006 9:00:43 AM PDT by Petronski (Living His life abundantly.)
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To: nascarnation

Are they a public company..or are they looking for funds...I would be wary of these claims...Capacitors explode real good too...


16 posted on 09/21/2006 9:00:48 AM PDT by Youngman442002
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To: Malsua

Where's the part of the article that says they just need a few million dollars more to fund the necessary research and they're looking for investors?


17 posted on 09/21/2006 9:00:54 AM PDT by saganite (Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

sounds like a big tantalum cap...


18 posted on 09/21/2006 9:01:09 AM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: Malsua

Something to think about is that gasoline taxes support the development and sustainment of our nation's highways. If we move to electric cars, we might also need to tax highway travel by the mile to continue to sustain those roads.


19 posted on 09/21/2006 9:01:16 AM PDT by Ben Mugged
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To: Malsua
Patent documents

Cordially,

20 posted on 09/21/2006 9:01:59 AM PDT by Diamond
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