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Game-changing Natural Gas and Energy Storage
Abraham Lincoln, before he became President, was a trial lawyer in Illinois and a storyteller of some note. One of the stories he told in the closing argument of a trial went something like this:A young boy, all excited, runs into his father’s...
Seizing the Microgrid Opportunity
Late last October, as Superstorm Sandy was bearing down on the East Coast, I suggested in this column that the storm would present a great marketing opportunity for the advanced battery industry. Four months after the storm the nature of that...
Thinking Outside the Box: Obama's Energy Security Trust
In an address at Argonne National Laboratory, President Obama proposed the creation of an Energy Security Trust. The Trust would use $2 billion from royalties and lease payments received from oil operations on federal lands over the next ten...
Moniz's Interest in Energy Efficiency May Favor Electricity Storage
On Tuesday of this week, President Obama nominated MIT physicist Ernest Moniz as Secretary of Energy to replace outgoing Secretary Steven Chu. Dr. Moniz has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1973 and currently directs MIT’s Energy...
Lithium-Ion Market on Verge of Dramatic Growth
With all the doom and gloom pervading the advanced battery industry over the past several months—from the bankruptcy of A123 to the fire on board Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner—the Frost & Sullivan report this week on the future of the lithium-ion...
The Case for Grid-Connected Energy Storage
This past week, I attended the Midwest Energy Forum at the University of Chicago. The Forum focused on the future of the U.S. electricity grid and the technologies that are likely to transform it over the next 30 years. Experts in...
Super Bowl Outage May Charge the Battery Industry
The numbers are in and the competition was not even close. Last Sunday, the best Super Bowl ad was the one for back-up power. While other ads may have exhibited more charm and humor, the ad for back-up power lasted 34 minutes, as against...
Energy Innovation: Lithium Battery Technology and Economic Growth
Earlier this week I spoke with a former colleague about the 787 Dreamliner battery fire. He said that he expects the fire to be a major problem for the battery industry and to slow acceptance of lithium-based batteries in the marketplace.I...
How A Battery Safety Center Would Benefit the Public and Industry
As of this week, the NTSB investigation into the January 7 battery fire on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is continuing. Preliminary indications are that the malfunction was serious and is likely to leave all 787’s in the United States grounded for weeks...
On-Shoring Manufacture of Electronics
Last Thursday, Tom Cook, the Chief Executive Officer of Apple, announced that Apple will invest $100 million next year in the United States in new manufacturing facilities for some of its Mac computers. Although $100 million represents about 2...
New Hope For The Advanced Battery Sector?
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced yesterday that a consortium of companies and research institutions led by Argonne National Laboratory, known as the Joint Center for Energy Storage and Research (JCESR), has been designated as the new battery...
The Real Energy Crisis
Five years ago we got the energy crisis wrong. Predictions of peak oil and declining sources of petroleum supply convinced many of an impending geologic and strategic crisis: the world was physically running out of recoverable oil and...
