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The capacitor peddlers

Posted on November 22, 2007 | Comments Off on The capacitor peddlers

Silicon Valley Redneck thinks Austin’s mysterious electric energy breakthrough company, EEStor, doesn’t smell like roses. "Snake-oil," he calls it, marshalling some numbers based on the firm’s very few pronouncements, to show why. The recent, unexplained departure of Mort Topfer, the former Dell vice-chairman from EEStor’s board, suggests SVR could be onto something. That their Web domain is for rent/sale is also not encouraging.

MORE: Things looked a little rosier back in January when Technology Review did this piece. 

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Eliminating the battery

Posted on September 4, 2007 | Comments Off on Eliminating the battery

Mystery start-up EEStor of Austin is getting a lot of publicity–and got $2.5 million in seed money from venture capitalists last month–despite refusing interviews. Their revolutionary promise is to develop "technologies for (the) replacement of electrochemical batteries," via "ultracapacitors." Some experts at the University of Texas Center for Electromechanics are skeptical. But ZENN Motor Co. of Toronto, licensed the invention in 2005 and expects to start receiving units for its electric cars later this year.

MORE: From CNN. EEStor was talking a year ago, perhaps wildly, about replacing the internal combustion engine! Not just goodbye gas guzzlers, but goodbye gas. Wouldn’t that be sweet. But the commenters at Slashdot see lots of potential problems.

Via Instapundit 

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