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Game Changing Battery Technology: Is it Here Now?

Jim:

Regarding EEStor -- a couple of corrections are needed to your article. EEStor's founder and CEO is Dick Weir, not Steve and Zenn's recent investment in EEStor was several million dollars, not $700K.

Merger Mania or Smart Shoppers?

James:

DT and T-Mobile are GSM based providers, while Sprint is CDMA-based. Merging T-Mobile and Sprint, while having some merit in terms of increased market share, would have to deal with this major incompatibility issue.

Smart Grid's Enabler - Alternative Energy Storage

John:

Thanks for another interesting, well-written article.

I've started investigating options for consumer peak-load shifting, allowing end users to take advantage of TOU (time-of-use) pricing now provided by a number of electric utilities. Lead-carbon batteries seem to fit in that app pretty well.

Another approach is thermal storage, which has been around for years in the commercial-industrial space. Ice Energy [web link: ice-energy.com ] is an interesting startup firm that's developed the Ice Bear 30 hybrid AC/energy storage unit, sized for small-medium businesses but which might perhaps also work for high-end residential apps.
www.ice-energy.com/tec...

I would be interested in your comments on Ice Energy and similar thermal energy storage approaches and possible investment ideas.

Why Cable and WiMax Shouldn't Mix

I totally agree with srhise's comments above. Eric needs to do his homework a lot more thoroughly before blabbing on his blog.