They came and recruited me. I invented that channel for them. I know there was a about a 6 story building over there full of people working very diligently in just getting military contracts. I: Right. W: I can't do that. Let's get in bed with Lockheed Martin and when I went and gave presentation? And so I did.
And that 's worked out exceptionally well. We now have a contract with them where they handle all of our contracts with And writes?
So now I don't have to be a military contractor. I went and got the world's best. Then they write a commercial contract with me to supply parts to Lockheed and or for military contracts for other groups. So that they can build these mission critical systems.
Since you're no longer a VC Does that mean you guys are seeing revenue come in from Lockheed, at this point? W: We had a con But just, uhh We did that for 'em. And they paid us some good money for it. I: K W: Which will lead to a bigger contract.
I: All right. Er, on the corporate side. Before going back to this. The proj? W: Umh I: This final In terms of the uhh, valuation of the investing rounds, can you talk about how you came up with those or what W: Well, you know, that's You make an ESU work, which we're really hot on the trail getting that done, God only knows what we'll be valued at, then.
We go out there and raise about any size of money you can think of. And all non-diluting. We had accomplished quite a number of things in our chemistry and all those things were been accomplished. And certified. So, we got together with Stan? Which I think is a good deal for them. I: Yea. W: We're not greedy. Now, could we actually take this money and go out and get a better valuation? Of course we can. But, a contract is a contract. So that's where we are.
I think that helps with them? The other part we want to drive into a little bit is just the, uhh, your thoughts on the applications On the military side you have Lockheed. As one of your partners. Can you talk about W: I'm sorry for stepping on I: No, that was it.
W: Yea, if you take a look at what we're And the areas that we'll be dominant in. It really gets around anything dealing with energy storage which is about everybody. You take grid load leveling for example? I'm working very hard and I got a patent So you can take the grids of the world and put our batteries on it and charge 'em at night and dump 'em during the day. It's impossible. So all we're doing is getting?
That amount? So we've got Wind and solar. We make wind and solar real. If you take our batteries and those with wind and solar, what you do is amortize out the variations and make it highly stablized.
You can make a wind farm look just like a coal fired plant with our batteries. And make it very cost effective. So that gives another way for North America to be really energy independent at very reasonable period of time on a reasonable investment.
We make UPS real. Right now it's lead acid battery driven. And it has a very bad name. We put a battery with a UPS, it's there forever. Military and NASA. Of course we're already with And there's mission critical programs over there. Where they just have to have our technology for those. PC and hand held computers.
We can take a battery for a PC in the same frame or a battery for a hand held or for a cell phone and give you 3 to 5 times more energy storage that will never degrade on you as you can charge in a second. With the prices you've got, you can make a lot of money there. Electric vehicles of all types. I think we're going to be the winner. We're dealing a lot with people in the electrical vehicle business. But I think that's going to take time to emerge. But I don't It's going to be very interesting to see them grow dramatically as they capture that electric vehicle market.
I've also got a contract with a two wheel three wheel company. Uhh, they say When they got the start they said Dick you're missing. You take that electric Portable tools. I: I mean Or take some time? I know the guy there very well. Is that time to market is short there. You don't have crash tests. And our battery will be UL approved. Which is more than enough to put it on an electric bike, worldwide. You put the bike So, it is quick to market.
I: yep. W: Portable tools. I've already They're waiting for me to emerge and then they'll come on strong. And then there's the capacitor market. Cause we can take aluminum electrolytic capacitor, which is the scourage of the industry. If anything fails it's aluminum electrolytic capacitors.
You take a 5, micro Farad aluminum We can put that on a small flip chip and put it right onto The thing will never, never, never will fail on you. So we can do great in the capacitor market. It's obvious. ZENN, two wheel, we're getting started there. After that, we'll have to sit down and do some decent selecting because there are some very high profit businesses that we can get into, very quickly. And let me just Can you walk us through how the relationship with ZENN works? Let's say they have How would the W: The buy it for a certain price and put it in their car.
They pay That's extremely attractive. The dielectric ceramic compositions described by the ' patent are just some of the many types of ceramic compositions that can be fabricated using the processes and techniques of the present application. In other embodiments, different high-permittivity dielectric materials are used. As noted above, in many embodiments the composition-modified barium titanate material is coated to provide additional performance.
Aluminum oxide coatings and calcium magnesium aluminosilicate glass coatings are applied to calcined composition-modified barium titanate powder to enhance material features and improve manufacturing capabilities. These coating materials have high voltage breakdown and when coated onto the composition-modified barium titanate will increase the breakdown voltage of the material.
These coatings also assist in significantly lowering the leakage and aging of ceramic components comprised of the calcined composition-modified barium titanate powder. This lower temperature eliminates the need to use expensive platinum, palladium, or palladium-silver alloy as the terminal metal.
This temperature is in a safe range that allows nickel to be used, providing a major cost saving in material expense and also power usage during the hot-isostatic-pressing process.
Also, since the glass becomes easily deformable and flowable at these temperatures it will assist in removing the voids from the EESU material during the hot-isostatic-pressing process. In another embodiment, the alumina-coated composition-modified barium titanate powder is dispersed in a poly ethylente terephalate plastic matrix in place of the calcium magnesium aluminosilicate glass matrix. These matrix materials have dielectric breakdown strengths that are very similar, but the plastic matrix makes for substantially lower process temperature and pressure, leading to lower fabrication cost.
This lower processing temperature also allows for the use of aluminum as the electrode material. Various other plastics can also be used. Although many different metals and metal alloys can be used for electrode material , nickel is advantageous for several reasons.
EESU electrodes can be produced by screen-printing multiple layers of nickel electrodes with screening ink from nickel powder. Interleaved between nickel electrodes are dielectric layers with screening ink from calcined double-coated high-permittivity calcined composition-modified barium titanate powder. Each screening ink typically contains appropriate plastic resins, surfactants, lubricants, and solvents, resulting in a proper rheology for screen printing.
The number of these layers can vary depending on the electrical energy storage requirements. Each layer is dried before the next layer is screen printed, and each nickel electrode layer is alternately preferentially aligned to each of two opposite sides of the component automatically during this process.
These layers are screen printed on top of one another in a continuous manner. When the specified number of layers is achieved, the component layers are then baked to obtain by further drying sufficient handling strength of the green plastic body.
Then the array is cut into individual components to the specified sizes. Alternatively, the dielectric powder is prepared by blending with plastic binders, surfactants, lubricants, and solvents to obtain a slurry with the proper rheology for tape casting. In tape casting, the powder-binder mixture is extruded by pressure through a narrow slit of appropriate aperture height for the thickness desired of the green plastic ceramic layer onto a moving plastic-tape carrier, known as a doctor-blade web coater.
After drying to develop sufficient handling strength of the green plastic ceramic layer this layer is peeled away from the plastic-tape carrier. The green plastic ceramic layer is cut into sheets to fit the screen-printing frame in which the electrode pattern is applied with nickel ink.
After drying of the electrode pattern, the sheets are stacked and then pressed together to assure a well-bonded lamination. The laminate is then cut into components of the desired shape and size. The components are treated for binder-burnout and sintering steps. After this process is completed the components are then properly prepared for the hot isostatic pressing to eliminate voids.
Next the components are side lapped on the connection side to expose the preferentially aligned nickel electrodes. These sides can then be dipped into ink from nickel powder that has been prepared to have the desired rheology. Then side conductors of nickel are dipped into the same ink and then are clamped onto each side of the components that have been dipped into the nickel powder ink. The components are then fired to bond the nickel bars to the components, which can then be assembled into various arrays.
While the EESU components can be packaged in a variety of materials, one embodiment packages the components within a hermetically sealed metal box or container. If the EESU is located near or on the ocean, or some other corrosive environment other metals such as titanium can be used. This generally provides the long lifetime e. The features of this system include: 1 automated utility grid power averaging; 2 unique characteristics of the EESU providing effective isolation from power line noise and transients; 3 utility grid primary power backup along with utilizing portable EESU based power delivery units for providing long term power backup capability; and 4 real-time additions to the EESU main units without disrupting the output power.
A very high percentage of the utility companies charge more for energy during peak-demand times which are typically from PM to about PM, but can vary depending on time of year, region, weather conditions, etc.
During that time, the cost of energy will be increased significantly for each step-up in energy usage. Peak-demand energy costs have become a significant portion of the electrical bills for most users in the USA.
This reference data was supplied by Austin Energy which is a municipality-owned utility in Austin, Tex. Additionally, many utilities have demand response programs for business customers. These programs provide financial incentives and other benefits to participating customers to curtail energy use in general, or during certain events has designated by the utility. These actions are intended to help provide a reliable amount of power during emergencies or when demand otherwise exceeds capacity.
The system of FIG. Control computer establishes an energy flow rate e. In some embodiments, computer can take multiple factors into consideration such as weather information, projected power needs, pricing information, or the like. It can automatically determine flow rate based on specified parameters or it can allow a user to specify the desired flow rate explicitly.
The EESU main units will be configured to provide sufficient energy to the user during the peak demand time without increasing the energy supplied by the utility grid.
However, if the energy stored in EESU main units is reduced below a set minimum level, control computer will increase the system input energy flow rate from the utility grid so that the primary minimum energy storage level is maintained. Note that electricity from the utility grid is generally delivered as an AC current, and so the system utilizes some manner of rectification e.
Others steps may need to be taken to modify the input current from the utility grid. For example, transformers can be used to adjust the AC voltage, various input filters can be used, and the like. At the end of the peak energy demand period, the input energy will be sufficient to not only supply output energy demand but also recharge EESU main units Of course, in the industrial utility-grid energy supply market, where the cost of energy is higher and the difference between the non-peak costs and peak costs are significantly wider, the return on the investment would be much faster and the yearly savings would be significant.
This feature and the features indicated below make this system an extremely attractive investment for users in all areas. Another aspect of the system of FIG. If the control computer detects an input power loss e. Power will then be delivered by EESU main units without simultaneous charging of the units. If the energy in EESU main units is reduced to a set level, then control computer can automatically notify the user or bring additional power online.
For example, EESU main unit capacity may be selected to provide adequate power for a set period of time. When the power level drops below a set threshold, the user can then make the decision to order additional power from another source.
Other sources can include additional EESUs that are either maintained at the user's facility or that can be readily delivered, e. These convertors will be used to step down the voltage into something more usable for vehiolce applications, around V.
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We do not want to stand by and let the Chinese pirate this one. The bullet would easily penetrate the body panels of a normal car without much lost of energy. Likewise it would penetrate the EESU outer box which is normally plastic. When it hits the power storage capacitors, get interesting. The ceramic and metal foil layered material should adsorb the energy of the bullet very well and the bullet will fragment.
No more than two or three of the subassemblies should be seriously damaged. A current surge can be expected to flow out of the damaged cells but should be limited by the over-voltage protection. A subsequent surge of current into the damaged cells should be limited by the fusible link system which should isolate them before too much power can flow in from other cells.
The bullet will leave a conductive path of metal fragment, fragments of the metal foil, and damaged fragments of the barium titanate spheres now with their aluminum oxide insulation shells breached.
In the ultracapacitor configuration, the barium titanate is reasonably good conductor. The metal path will lead to collapse of much of the ultracapacitor effect which will cause a very high voltage spike. Certainly enough voltage to establish an arc through the bullet damaged area. One might think the damaged subassemblies would simply explode, but the ultracapacitor effect has a rather show time constant. This is why they cannot be used as power supply filter caps.
This factor would have to be above Hertz to be of value as a power filter. This slow response limits the speed of the voltage build up below what would be required for a real explosion. What could be expected is the generation of an arch plasma over several hundred milliseconds that would travel right back in the direction the rifle bullet entered.
In short the EESU will shoot right back at you with a ball of fire. These are materials that can be programmed to exhibit an electrical characteristic and then remember it as long as the programming is not disrupted.
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