Added everything up using every ones input
1) They are using chemical processes to purify the powders
2) They need to use further steps to remove impurities added during the purification.
3) Eestor is very actively looking beyond the simple automotive sector, specifically at grid-levelling applications
4) All the research and development has been done
5) In June they were putting EESU together
6) UL certification started 3 years ago should be done by 2010
7) Weir was recruited by the CIA to build high frequency channels for satellites
8) LM is paying EEstor to complete darpa research contracts
9) EEstor is buying the rights to Barium mines
10) Due to the increase in permittivity each line will produce more EESU for considerably less energy
11) Looks like the EESU specs are going to increase significantly new permittivity value being withheld
12) all hell is going to break loose at EEstor, Zenn and theeestory.com when the final EESU is delivered
13) pick and place robot automation going in first quarter of next year
14) polarity is producing circuits to complete the EESU
15) KPCB owns 20 something % does not buy common stock and considers EEstor no longer a VC company
16) EEstor technology evaluated by 3 divisions of LM and a PHD scientist from Zenn
17) EEstor should be evaluated at being worth 500Mill
18) there is a darpa contract EEstor is involved with that could lead to a bigger contract
19) He said the they were 85% of the way complete on the production line, and that he would be finishing up fully automated pick and place assembly of components and components into EESus in Q1 2010.
20) He said "I I am already out there putting EESU together and its June, so I guess I'm a bit ahead of schedule".
21) He has identified suppliers of all the production line equipment. None of the equipment is in the $1 million plus category, most is $50-$75 thousand range. The equipment suppliers are able to supply the equipment for rapid growth of production line duplication.
22) When talking about UL family certification he mentions a large EESU like 12,000 to 15,000 kWh. Wow, that's a big EESU.
23) Purification and material processing is done in house, not supplied in ready form by a company like DuPont.
24) Contract pricing is in the $100-$150 range per kWh excluding cost of electronics.
25) IGBT's are the enabling technology that made the power electronics cost, size and performance effective.
26) LM has been around since 2002-2003... long before the Licensing agreement was announced.
27) EEStor has a patent pending which shorts out a failed component in about a millionth of a second, UL is very happy about that. If the EESU is crushed in an accident, nothing with happen, totally safe.
28) UL certification tests are to be presented and performed at EEStor premises, that process has been underway for 3 years and if all goes as planned they will have UL family certification in the next few months (starting in June 09 from the interview).
29) EEStor technology will allow for cell phones with 3-5 times the energy storage of current technology and will recharge in "seconds".
30) EESTor has two grid-leveling related patents pending.
31) EEStor is "in deep" with power tool manufacturers.
32) All the automated assembly line components/machinery are off the shelf and all the suppliers have been identified. None of the equiptment is prohibitively expensive. Lithium will just not be able to compete.
33) The tested permittivity is up to 22,500 OR GREATER. Dick Wier stated that he is not going to say how much greater it is (ie. I interpret that to mean that info is still in stealth and that he is hinting here at higher ED).
34) There are numerous chemical process patents pending that outline the unique purification and CMBT production process. They have invented these processes which do not appear in any textbook, they are new.
35) What keeps Dick Wier up at night right now? Work on the patents.
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Last edited Wed, 22 Jul 2009, 6:05pm
by Jay
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