Renewables Electrical Storage with EESUs?

Energy Journalist Tyler Hamilton has something of an EEStory scoop today in the MIT Technology Review. Tyler is the mainstream, how be it, Canadian, Journalist who owns the EEStory.  Most of Hamilton's article report information I have reported on Nuclear Green. The Hamilton article also indicates the potential of a successful EEStor technology, to provide energy storage for renewables. Hamilton reports, on the basis of an interview with Weir, that "the company is also in serious talks with potential partners in the solar and wind industry, where EEStor's technology can, according to Weir, help put 45 percent more energy into the grid."

Hamilton attributes to Weir the statement that the company is working toward commercial production "as soon as possible in 2009," although when asked, he gave no specific date. "I'm not going to make claims on when we're going to get product out there. That's between me and the customer. I don't want to tell the industry." Reportedly when the EESUs reach mass production they can be produced for around $40 per KWh of storage capacity. This would clearly create a low cost potential for mass storage of energy from renewables, although the cost of the massive renewables installations required to feed the huge banks of industrial scale EESUs might well still be prohibitive. And we still have the issue that there is no proof that a functioning EESU prototype has been built.

I will await pronouncing the EEStory one of the ten top news stories of the 21st century until Dick Weir shows us a third party test of an EESU and we see the ZENN Morors City Car prototype safely zipping around Toronto with an EESU under the hood.  Oh, and the City Car has to be crash tested too, so we can find out if the EESU will electrocute everyone within 100 feet of an accident.

This link should satisfy anyone who wonders if EEStory skepticism has been quieted.