Will the EESTOR Phoenix rise from the ashes of hope?
seanseamour on November 01 2008 at 2:55 pm | Filed under: EEStor
My absence from the blog for the past few months has not been due to holding my breath on EESTOR expectations (still holding regardless of the extraordinary data I will be publishing below), but due to the intensive investigative effort regarding my cloned and failed GPIRB (EPIRB with GPS integrated function) that is now coming to a close. I will report within the next few weeks on that life threatening event under section Sean Seamour / the Tale of Two EPIRBs, but wish to thank all at this time the extraordinary efforts deployed by the team that has already brought about process and policy changes within the administrations involved, with much more to come.
Today I will be focussing on EESTOR as mentioned above and the next few days on new STEYR Hybrid propulsion system. Both are emblematic of new technologies that are game changers for the mariner community at large.
The Zenn Motor company who is first in line (before Lockheed Martin, let alone the new partner Light Electric Vehicles Company) to integrate the ESU (Energy Storage Unit), has just published some remarkable data which speaks for itself. We would have preferred the data directly through Eestor always as secretive (understandable when you are about to turn a market in its head) but as Zenn is a shareholder I am republishing from their site ZENNERGY the following charts :
I have mentioned in the past the paradigm changes the Eestor ESU represents, the chart above illustrates it all. For those less conversant with metric measures the following chart again taken from the Zennergy site is just as eloquent :
It is important to emphasize that with the ESU, much like the traditional capacitor, the full 52kWh capacity is available until full discharge versus varying percentages around the 50% mark for competing technologies. This means longer legs combined with almost no resistance to charge (3 to 6 minutes versus hours).
NOW, is that a paradigm change?
I am still dreaming of installing a methanol fuel cell in lieu of the diesel ICE to power an electric motor, unfortunately, although great strides are being made that configuration is still some years ahead.
My alternative after reviewing various diesel electric and hybrid solutions will be integrated hybrid diesel-electric propulsion, object of an upcoming post that will update information already available on the blog.
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