EE stor still making claims with ultra capacitor storage!

At least the claims are still alive, but doubts have simmered since like, forever... there is a blog which has documented the claims since ... https://bariumtitanate.blogspot.com/ here is a paragraph from it; It was recently proposed to me that possibly in the near term, I could take a tour of EEStor's facility. Five years ago that would have been a dream come true but today, I don't really think I could work it into my schedule. If I had to listen to Dick Weir's un-decypherable bullshit, I'd probably lose my lunch. As for stressing over EEStor and looking for what's next, those days are way behind us and from my perspective, the whole thing has become a colossal waste of time and distraction. To get to the heart of things, this blog has become to me personally a recurring set of disappointing developments. It's impacted me emotionally and I used to be able to counterbalance that with enjoyment from the community that built up around EEStor. But that community has always been dwindling as it should from EEStor's failure to deliver on their self-set goals. On top of this, I think eight years of emotional disappointment is just too much to continue to slow brew. I have a lot of other things I want to accomplish in my life and maintaining a scientific debate community is no longer one of them. It is just too distracting so take this for what it is: a bit of Spring cleaning in my life and my attempt to get my focus back. So of course, no one will be satisfied with how this all ends up. But in keeping with how I've done things from the beginning, I will end with some of my personal speculations and issue some new predictions. First, I believe Carl Nelson worked on a team at MIT under Arthur Von Hippel that discovered a capacitor effect which had off the charts measurements--an effect whose limits were not apparent to them then or to EEStor now. I believe the MIT team couldn't control the effect with the manufacturing methods available at the time and had bigger fish to fry with the development of the digital age. That digital age improved manufacturing methods and at some point Dick Weir and Carl Nelson set out to see if they could bring about the effect originally discovered at MIT. Weir's ambitions were bigger than his technical ability and extreme narcissism drove Nelson out of the picture and left the technical development in uncertain hands. To make matters worse, the controls Weir and team thought they had over the material turned out to be illusory. What's left now is the possibility that the effects which are controllable are commercializable as well. another comment then there is the discussion on revolution green, http://revolution-green.com/battery-breakthrough-battery-ultra-capacitor-breakthrough-hybrid-game-changer-te-scene/, a bit of chronology; from Asterix • 20 days ago EEStor again? I've written here years ago about their charade. Zenn Cars, originally called "Feel Good Cars" (ZENN was just a model) paid a scam artist with his company AEC (Alternate Energy Corporation) who essentially promised a car that ran on water. The name of FGC's CEO at the time? One Ian Clifford. Later FGC changed their name to ZENN Cars and teamed up with another snake-oil specialist, Richard Weir and his company EEStor, who promised a high-capacity, high-voltage capacitor with an energy density exceeding that of current electrochemical batteries. The gotcha was that Weir never produced complete working units, only layers, which were "verified" under Weir's control. ZENN floated a bunch of stock on the TSX Venture exchange and got a few private venture capitalists (e.g. Kleiner Perkins) involved. Oh--the executive involved in the deal? One Ian Clifford. After years of delivering nothing, EEStor, in a rather complicated game, gained control of ZENN. The last I heard, the unremarkable product of all of this dreaming was a capacitor that may or may not compete with traditional ceramic capacitors. Some invested their retirement nest egg in the venture and lost it. At the last check, EEStor stock was at 0.18 CAD. Rossi has shown his acumen by carrying on his scam for far longer. Both seem to have some believers left, though heaven knows why. EEStor’s system–called an Electrical Energy Storage Unit, or EESU–is based on an ultracapacitor architecture that appears to escape the traditional limitations of such devices. The company has developed a ceramic ultracapacitor with a barium-titanate dielectric, or insulator, that can achieve an exceptionally high specific energy–that is, the amount of energy in a given unit of mass. For example, the company’s system claims a specific energy of about 280 watt hours per kilogram, compared with around 120 watt hours per kilogram for lithium-ion and 32 watt hours per kilogram for lead-acid gel batteries. This leads to new possibilities for electric vehicles and other applications, including for the military. “It’s really tuned to the electronics we attach to it,” explains Weir. “We can go all the way down from pacemakers to locomotives and direct-energy weapons.” The trick is to modify the composition of the barium-titanate powders to allow for a thousandfold increase in ultracapacitor voltage–in the range of 1,200 to 3,500 volts, and possibly much higher. EEStor claims that, using an automated production line and existing power electronics, it will initially build a 15-kilowatt-hour energy-storage system for a small electric car weighing less than 100 pounds, and with a 200-mile driving range. The vehicle, the company says, will be able to recharge in less than 10 minutes.