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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Forever Battery
The Atlantic Cities:Imergy Power Systems' headquarters in an office park in one of Silicon Valleys less glamorous precincts is the type of place where the future used to be invented. There are no Beats headphones-wearing 20-somethings on scooters. No foosball tables, rooftop beer garden or ironically named conference rooms. No birdhouses. Just a sea of drab, blue-gray cubicles. The median employee age appears to be around that of the typical software engineer who files an age-discrimination lawsuit. There are scientists wearing white lab coats. Some have white hair. The chief executive is 61 thats 120 in Silicon Valley years.
Needless to say, Imergy is not developing the next $19 billion app that Facebook will acquire, but the start-up could end up powering Facebook.
Imergy has spent years perfecting an energy storage device that, if it lives up to its billing, will help accelerate the big green future by allowing companies and homeowners to pull the plug on their local utility by banking electricity from solar arrays and wind farms for use when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing. A 250-kilowatt battery system installed in a 40-foot container, for instance, could store solar energy from the rooftop arrays of a 40-home neighborhood for later use.
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The Forever Battery (Original Post)
brooklynite
Apr 2014
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eppur_se_muova
(36,247 posts)1. Third thread on this topic, at least. Check Environment/Energy. nt
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)2. Mine sank like a rock, too.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)3. Damn shame.
Squinch
(50,911 posts)4. Kick
Squinch
(50,911 posts)5. And kick again
Squinch
(50,911 posts)6. ...aaaaaaaand maybe one more....