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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.

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