Reply To: FOCUS FUSION REACTOR

[jjohnson]

Brian H – re EESTOR ultra-caps (UC). I’ve been following the past year and also the EESTORblog and bariumtitanate.com. They seem to be quietly but steadily progressing toward a salable product. At least Lockheed Martin and ZENN motorcars hope so, having bought in and are planning to use it as soon as (if) the technology becomes available. The best part about UC technology is that they are capable of fast charge/discharge rates, suitable for braking energy recovery, say, or electric grid leveling, or…focus fusion surge leveling and storage and discharge to grid. A stry here, today http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/energy/24405/ shows DOE giving the nod toward Li-Sulfur batteries. I do wonder what happens to a car powered by anything lithium has a wreck and crashes into one of those pools of standing water often found near roadways. EESTOR seem to like the business notion of partnering with an industry which will license, buy or invest in their startup technology and products early on, and will hold discussions with firms such as FocusFusion if it might look promising to their business model. So far as I know, EESTOR are totally private, not wanting to feed the government hand that always bites innovative people. Excellent choice, in my book! THere was a runor that NASA had asked to buy some product to “evaluate” but the idea seems to have died a natural death with denials all around. Of course an agency like NASA would be interested in this tachnology – they have been funding research into it and publishing about it in their magazine TechnologyBriefs since 2000, but they are not the ones to commercialize on it. Unlike the horde of bloggers who think it is another scam, I see it as a steady, persistent piece of work to acquire the necessary patents, to develop the technology and the lab certification milestones and the production processes and control technologies to make this work. The Owners are men who have been in the technology business for a long time, with relevant experience. I hope Lerner invites them for tea and a look at his idea, and that they might talk turkey. It is almost Thanksgiving in the U.S., after all. Another, farther away firm is Graphene, who are trying to position their carbon nanotubules as ultracap material.

Compared to lithium availability and worldwide supply, there is far more readily available material for barium titanate, EESTOR’s choice, and it seems to involve a more green extraction and production process than lithium, and doesn’t react badly with water, and on and on.

Jim