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Vinod Khosla's Stance on the Future of Lithium-ion Batteries

Your vision of the future of electric vehicles and electrical storage system may be correct but it is not as much fun as believing that a disruptive tech breakthrough can come along and change the world overnight. Cheap, light, high energy density, long life cycle, non-polluting, easy to manufacture, easy to scale up manufacturing - you may be skeptical of eestor but at least their target is right - we will know in one month if their product is for real. Weir is right to be secretive - he is changeling the most powerful industries and people in the world and will make them obsolete. We need to break the stranglehold of big oil and big auto and we have to have the right goal to shoot for - lead and lithium thinking doesn't cut it. If eestor doesn't do it, then we should have a 'Manhattan Project' effort to do it...

Time to Forget About Zenn Motor

Jim, you say your drop in confidence in eestor is based on pure suppositions made by you with no facts to back it up other than K-P not investing more money and a change in one board member. I am sure you read Weir's phone conversation transcript with pretty detailed information about the timeline for production - so why not comment on what Weir has said himself and why you think that eestor is not going to be able to produce their first ultracap storage unit in September and deliver production product at the end of the year.

Blogonomics: Market Manipulation?

you need to do a bit more research on the stock trading on the day of the Russell inclusion - I would like your opinion on how it all works - but on that Friday, all of the volume was done after the close and the 'small investor' is left wondering if there really is a market that is not rigged. We 'small investors' who have followed Microvision's stock have no doubt that there was some relation to the article and the stock price going down - I am not sure if it was the article only or some manipulation of the pps too in anticipation of the Russell inclusion. That coupled with the huge volume after the bell on Friday has me wondering how this whole game really does work...

Microvision's No Show Hands the Pico Projector Market to TI

You have never seen the two displays next to each other and once that comparison id made Microvision's display will appear about twice as bright as TI's - lumens don't tell the brightness story as well as the eye. But that is only part of the story. Lasers have a much better color saturation, which means that the color from Microvision is much richer and can display many more colors. Additionally, each pixel from Microvision's display can be adjusted for color and brightness - TI has to have the LCD's on max brightness over the whole surface of their chip all the time and much of the light has to be converted to waste heat. The colors also are leaked to adjacent pixels and that is why the display looks washed out. For a cell phone projector, this waste of energy drains the battery and cannot be used for long without getting to hot to hold. The major market is not business, it is the 14 to 25 year olds and they will demand infinite focus. Good luck on your short!