Comments on: There’s no Christmas for EEStor this year… maybe 2009

By: Yaunick

Yaunick — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:38:16 +0000

If the Comment above is True About Military uses, Then If we get Domestic production up and Running and then Get rid of our Foreign oil Dependcy. Then We wouldnt Need as many Higher tech Uniforms acrost the seas to Protect Foreign Oil Interest. and the We could go back to just Protecting Israel, Like We Should Be Doing.

By: EEStor fails to deliver on ZENN hopes, but new patent shows improvement | Alternative Energy News

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:10:30 +0000

[...] shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. EEStor CEO Dick Weir said as much back in late October. Barring some last-minute help from Santa, ZENN and everyone else will have to wait until 2009. But [...]

By: EEStor fails to deliver on ZENN hopes, but new patent shows improvement

EEStor fails to deliver on ZENN hopes, but new patent shows improvement — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:11:01 +0000

By: Ralph Karsten

Ralph Karsten — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:52:29 +0000

It would be nice to see the EEStor part finally arrive. But they better get moving.

Harris (Intersil) is working on a hyper capacitor, as is a company in Minneapolis that I am under NDA to not name. There appear to be at least 3 companies working on similar technologies on the Asian Rim, and Maxwell, well-known in the super capacitor field, is rumored to working on something now too. From what I’ve been able to gather, barium titanate is only one of the approaches; some of the others use far less exotic materials and are yielding (at least, experimentally) larger energy densities.

By: Jim West

Jim West — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:36:09 +0000

In my opinion, Weir’s credibility is growing very thin.
I would be willing to give him the benefit of a doubt with at least a little credible information.
With absolutely no information from Weir or EEStor, investing in EEStor or Weir would be very risky, in my opinion. I would really like to see some credible information from EEStor (Weir) with some basic physics that demonstrates his designs will work. Without credible information, it is probable but not certain, that Weir’s ultracapacitor design has serious technical porblems and no amount of funding can change the reality of the basic laws of physics. Weir needs to either speak up with some real data and defend his concept, or please, find another career of selling Texas swamp land.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:44:12 +0000

Bob, it goes further than that. If this guy has a product with even a quarter the capacity he claims, every car company on the planet will be throwing billions at him. Forget 25 units an hour, he’ll be churning out one a second.

They’re just waiting on those darn permitivity tests.

By: XYMOX

XYMOX — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:30:14 +0000

EESTOR will never be able to deliver a product, It is a waste of time. Sorry Folks. You’ve all been had by Weir. All Lies!

GO Silicon Nanowire Batteries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Bob Wallace

Bob Wallace — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:11:00 +0000

“Weir disclosed that he would need $10 million (U.S.) in funding to achieve full production with the ability to manufacture up to 25 52-kilowatt EESUs per hour. ”

$10 million is chump change.

The guy either has nothing or he’s a terrible business person.

If he’s got a product hundreds of millions of dollars would be lining up to get a piece. He could easily sell ten million dollars of stock and still hold a very strong majority position. He could even get people to buy non-voting stock which would give him total control.

If he had something to sell….

(Remember how people in the business laughed at McCain’s $300 million prize? Miniscule in terms of the potential profits to be earned.)

By: Paul C from Austin

Paul C from Austin — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:41:01 +0000

You know, another to interpret Dick Weir’s comments are- they did not have the funding to finish their production line by the end of 2008…but now due to their deal with LightEV they do.

By: Matt in Charlotte

Matt in Charlotte — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:24:59 +0000

You have to wonder if initial production is being siphoned off to be used in black programs at Lockheed. I bet the DOD would pay lots more than the consumer would.