EEStor ceramic ultracapacitors in the news, again and Holiday Greetings! from MAT

We take this opportunity to wish everyone Happy Holidays and a Prosperous New Year in 2010. There is a lot of good news coming in the decades ahead. While the short term will be very challenging, to say the least, there will be some bright spots, which include exciting new technologies. Ultracapacitors have the potential to revolutionize many technology areas, particularly electric vehicles, power grid load leveling, electric aircraft and directed energy weapons.

Techbriefing (via Gmail) is a free service from Manning Applied Technology. Previous iterations of Techbriefing were sent using a Pegasus mail list via the appl-tech.com domain.

Manning Applied Technology offers other services, many of which are described here:

http://www.appl-tech.com/Briefing_Charts/Brochure.pdf

No more than once a day and occasionally less than once per month, important technology news will be delivered directly to your desktop via email. This is a non-commercial activity comprising scholarship in the area of new technology. If you know someone that would like to subscribe to the Techbriefing service, please forward this note to them. If you do not wish to receive Techbriefing, please let me know.

EEStor is said to have the technology for producing a type of ceramic ultracapacitor that can store energy at densities in the range of lithium-polymer batteries, with a lifespan in excess of 1 million complete charge-discharge cycles, the potential to be fully charged in a few seconds to a few minutes, and to release energy in milliseconds instead of minutes. The technology is premised on a ferroelectric ceramic called barium titanate, which has a very high dielectric constant.

EEStor is a privately held company. Their investors include Kleiner Perkins, which gives them a fair amount of credibility. The EEStor company is partially owned by Zenn Motor Company (ZMC):

www.zenncars.com/html/investor/EEStor/index.html

ZMC holds the exclusive worldwide rights to use EEStor devices in cars under 1400 kilograms (and various other vehicles).

Zenn Motor Company stock trades on the Vancouver exchange:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ZNN.V

and in the US as a pink sheet
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ZNNMF.PK

This is not a solicitation to buy or sell any stock or other financial vehicle. I am not a financial adviser and this free content does not constitute financial advice. Full disclosure: I have placed a bid for a very modest number of Zenn shares.

News leaks about EEStor continue and this one may be particularly illuminating:

http://bariumtitanate.blogspot.com/2009/12/top-lockheed-energy-exec-excited-about.html

excerpt 1:

Today at the National Press Club, Lockheed Martin held a hastily thrown together press conference to lay out its vision for its future in energy. Unfortunately, talking about EEStor was not on the agenda. However, thanks to a gutsy anonymous blogger, we have one heck of a post-event interview whereupon two of Lockheed's senior most executives demonstrate REAL TROUBLE hiding their enthusiasm about EEStor.

excerpt 2:

Key take aways from the interviews:

1) Lockheed Martin execs smile when you ask them about EEStor
2) They have trouble wiping the smile off their faces once they start smiling
3) The slightest hint of an EEStor concept brings the smile back
4) Why are they so happy?
5) What do they know?
6) Are you still reading this list?
7) Go to bed.
8) Now.
9) I mean it.
10) No, I am not the one who captured the video. ;-)

see also:
http://bariumtitanate.blogspot.com/2009/12/darryl-siry-on-doe.html