EEStor Ultracapacitors Coming to a Tailor Near You
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 12.29.08
Image from Patent Application
EEStor may not be having much luck getting their ultracaps into cars, but Lockheed is working hard at getting them into your pants. They have made a patent application to build them into armoured clothing. According to BariumTitanate, it is:
a new form of utility garment that includes body armor among other things. Specifically, the application discusses that the electrical energy storage unit "substantially conforms to an armour plate." The plate in turn may be "contoured to better fit a person wearing armor."
image: Earth2tech
Katie at Earth2Tech writes:
Craig Vanbebber of Lockheed Martin told us back then that Lockheed could be working with EEStor on anything from a wearable power source to powering soldier vehicles or command and control centers. Vanbebber also told us then that testing EEStor’s technology on the battlefield would be a major step for EEStor’s technology, explaining, “The challenges and logistics of taking power onto the battlefield are significant.”
image: Earth2tech
When EEStor disappeared into the Skunkworks there was some concern that it might be subsumed into military uses rather than civilian, which have certainly never been a Lockheed forte. Maybe a compromise is in order: A bulletproof Zenn?
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I hear their next patent is one for the 'ON light' used in desktop nuclear fusion generators.
does anyone know Lockheed and what they do?? them having investment in EEStor basically proves that the technology works. Now I personally still must keep reservation on the technology, however something this big would be required to keep a tight lip on. If you look at the big picture from a 3rd persons point of view this is exactly how a company would go about selling a product that could be this game changing. Money is key and there for EEStor is setting up for a big return.
Ok Now on the flip side Way to go Lockheed, good job on helping to advance civilization by making better war equipment. Perhaps Lockheed should be working on a wireless electric bus system that could charge rapidly through induction in the ground at every stop. Then some people are going say I'm not supporting the troops and there security is helping to secure a peaceful future. But you know what is better than a protected soldier in Iraq? One that is home with his family, not fighting.
My main point, Get off EEStors back, be scientific, report changes or development, but don't criticize, undermine or belittle them.
I hear their next patent is one for the 'ON light' used in desktop nuclear fusion generators.
ROFL, and I thought I had seen to many conspiracy movies, when I thought that Lockheed wanted ultracapacitors, because they could also double as armor plating.
But I thought they wanted to build electric tanks and APC-s...
Thanks a lot.Dış cephe