Comments on: EEStor not delivering http://chrisgammell.com/2008/11/11/eestor-not-delivering/ Analog electronics and everything else between 1 and 0 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:05:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: The Amp Hour #6 — Open Hardware and The Creative Economy | The Amp Hour http://chrisgammell.com/2008/11/11/eestor-not-delivering/comment-page-1/#comment-2787 The Amp Hour #6 — Open Hardware and The Creative Economy | The Amp Hour Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:01:00 +0000 http://chrisgammell.com/?p=38#comment-2787 [...] Chris of when EEstor was trying to pull the wool over people’s eyes with their bogus claims about the EESU t.... (It was actually 1.5 years ago, not 2.5 as Chris thought out [...] [...] Chris of when EEstor was trying to pull the wool over people’s eyes with their bogus claims about the EESU t…. (It was actually 1.5 years ago, not 2.5 as Chris thought out [...]

]]> By: I Have A Million Dollar Idea For Free Energy! | Chris Gammell's Analog Life http://chrisgammell.com/2008/11/11/eestor-not-delivering/comment-page-1/#comment-1311 I Have A Million Dollar Idea For Free Energy! | Chris Gammell's Analog Life Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:46:37 +0000 http://chrisgammell.com/?p=38#comment-1311 [...] look often and I find the same story each time. There was either a miscalculation or a misquote or a fancy-pants marketer trying to sell his big dumb ultra-capacitor that no one has seen to this day (p.s. it’s 2010. We’re still [...] [...] look often and I find the same story each time. There was either a miscalculation or a misquote or a fancy-pants marketer trying to sell his big dumb ultra-capacitor that no one has seen to this day (p.s. it’s 2010. We’re still [...]

]]> By: Rob / Bob http://chrisgammell.com/2008/11/11/eestor-not-delivering/comment-page-1/#comment-1017 Rob / Bob Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:17:38 +0000 http://chrisgammell.com/?p=38#comment-1017 While their claims are hard to believe and their likelyhood of meeting them slim.... and their continual delay of providing is very annoying.... their patent shows potential. go back to your pictures. stack multiple capacitors on top of each other. this doesn't give you any benefit yet.... but, now on the layers in the middle evenly remove 50 percent of the plate and dielectric. there you go. might not be as much as an improvement as they clam, but that is the bulk. by powdering the plates and the primary dielectric and suspending it all in the secondary dialectric they increase surface area that can hold a charge. Also, I could be wrong, but I presume that the plastic used probably complements the barium titanate nicely by being good in the areas that the barium titanate is week...... or maybe that is the ceramic coating the barium titanate that does that. I would believe the beginning of the journey that is EESTOR started with: "barium titanate is such a great material for caps, but doesn't scale up in size due to weaknesses x, y, and z. I wonder if I can find a way to compensate for that" I could be far off base though. either way, having the layers be a powder submersed in a liquid (at time of printing atleast) does have payoffs over having the layers be a solid piece of material in terms of surface area and presumably cost of mfr due to more efficient use of materials. and having it really a series of caps stacked on top of each other has to have some lower energy dissipation benefit.... Oh, I think I remember some other company talking about spray / print on solar cells. so it isn't like this mfr technique is unique to EESTOR. maybe unique to cap making..... and another thing Irelatively new. porous LI-ION batteries http://www.gizmag.com/stair-air-fueled-battery/11761/ goes to show, using less material can create a better product. "capacity-to-weight ratio of 1,000 milli-amp/hours per gram of carbon (mA/hours/g), while recent work achieved up to 4,000 mA/hours/g" Not exactly what I am talking about, since this involves a reaction with air, but it is an interesting innovation. In short (too late) no reason to lump all our hopes and dreams of a long range electric car in to Mr Weir's /potential/ product that refuses to appear. While their claims are hard to believe and their likelyhood of meeting them slim…. and their continual delay of providing is very annoying…. their patent shows potential.
go back to your pictures. stack multiple capacitors on top of each other. this doesn’t give you any benefit yet…. but, now on the layers in the middle evenly remove 50 percent of the plate and dielectric. there you go. might not be as much as an improvement as they clam, but that is the bulk. by powdering the plates and the primary dielectric and suspending it all in the secondary dialectric they increase surface area that can hold a charge. Also, I could be wrong, but I presume that the plastic used probably complements the barium titanate nicely by being good in the areas that the barium titanate is week…… or maybe that is the ceramic coating the barium titanate that does that.
I would believe the beginning of the journey that is EESTOR started with: “barium titanate is such a great material for caps, but doesn’t scale up in size due to weaknesses x, y, and z. I wonder if I can find a way to compensate for that” I could be far off base though. either way, having the layers be a powder submersed in a liquid (at time of printing atleast) does have payoffs over having the layers be a solid piece of material in terms of surface area and presumably cost of mfr due to more efficient use of materials. and having it really a series of caps stacked on top of each other has to have some lower energy dissipation benefit….
Oh, I think I remember some other company talking about spray / print on solar cells. so it isn’t like this mfr technique is unique to EESTOR. maybe unique to cap making…..
and another thing Irelatively new. porous LI-ION batteries
http://www.gizmag.com/stair-air-fueled-battery/11761/
goes to show, using less material can create a better product.
“capacity-to-weight ratio of 1,000 milli-amp/hours per gram of carbon (mA/hours/g), while recent work achieved up to 4,000 mA/hours/g”
Not exactly what I am talking about, since this involves a reaction with air, but it is an interesting innovation.
In short (too late) no reason to lump all our hopes and dreams of a long range electric car in to Mr Weir’s /potential/ product that refuses to appear.

]]> By: Scott http://chrisgammell.com/2008/11/11/eestor-not-delivering/comment-page-1/#comment-873 Scott Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:15:55 +0000 http://chrisgammell.com/?p=38#comment-873 I was so hopeful about EEstor. To me the Ultraconductor held the answer to everything. It would solve the energy problem and it would come in time. I have reconciled that Weir is not going to deliver so now we re back, racing against the climate change clock looking for new ways to produce and store energy. I admire your optimism Ray, but I am afraid the issue now is time. We see what disaster befall us when we have economic blips as we have now. So when really serious economic disasters come along as a result of serious world/climate issues can the scientific community survive enough to maintain the inventive momentum to come up with the new solutions? That is why I was so excited about Weir's announcements. Here we had the perfect device to make electric cars (and for that matter untold other formats) viable. This would have put us on the way to reducing carbon emissions by doing away with the internal combustion engine. It was timely. Now we are back to the waiting game. Can we come up with suitable technologies in time before our economy grinds to a standstill due to untold disasters. And make no mistake about it. Disasters will come. All it will take is one or two summers of seriously hot temperatures in the south along with drought through the mid west and promise for more. Throw in a major hurricane sweeping past Florida creating storm surges that will flood half of the state. Millions of Americans will begin migrating north creating unbelievable social upheaval and economic turmoil. Now multiply this by ten to account for what is also going on around the world. Will the scientific community survive enough to maintain their push forward for new technologies? I fear not. I was so hopeful about EEstor. To me the Ultraconductor held the answer to everything. It would solve the energy problem and it would come in time. I have reconciled that Weir is not going to deliver so now we re back, racing against the climate change clock looking for new ways to produce and store energy.

I admire your optimism Ray, but I am afraid the issue now is time. We see what disaster befall us when we have economic blips as we have now. So when really serious economic disasters come along as a result of serious world/climate issues can the scientific community survive enough to maintain the inventive momentum to come up with the new solutions? That is why I was so excited about Weir’s announcements. Here we had the perfect device to make electric cars (and for that matter untold other formats) viable. This would have put us on the way to reducing carbon emissions by doing away with the internal combustion engine. It was timely. Now we are back to the waiting game. Can we come up with suitable technologies in time before our economy grinds to a standstill due to untold disasters. And make no mistake about it. Disasters will come.

All it will take is one or two summers of seriously hot temperatures in the south along with drought through the mid west and promise for more. Throw in a major hurricane sweeping past Florida creating storm surges that will flood half of the state. Millions of Americans will begin migrating north creating unbelievable social upheaval and economic turmoil. Now multiply this by ten to account for what is also going on around the world. Will the scientific community survive enough to maintain their push forward for new technologies? I fear not.

]]> By: Are Engineers Naturally Cheapskates? | Chris Gammell's Analog Life http://chrisgammell.com/2008/11/11/eestor-not-delivering/comment-page-1/#comment-860 Are Engineers Naturally Cheapskates? | Chris Gammell's Analog Life Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:23:21 +0000 http://chrisgammell.com/?p=38#comment-860 [...] must be viable on a large scale and must be done efficiently. If a scientist determines that a capacitor can hold more energy if you tap on it with your finger 1000 times before applying a voltage across [...] [...] must be viable on a large scale and must be done efficiently. If a scientist determines that a capacitor can hold more energy if you tap on it with your finger 1000 times before applying a voltage across [...]

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