Comments on: Obama Unveils Largest-Ever Investment in Advanced Batteries http://gas2.org/2009/08/05/obama-unveils-largest-ever-investment-in-advanced-batteries/ What is the future of fuel? What's new? What's next? Since 2007, Gas 2 has covered a rapidly changing world coming to terms with its oil addiction. Sat, 26 May 2012 14:59:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Uncle B http://gas2.org/2009/08/05/obama-unveils-largest-ever-investment-in-advanced-batteries/#comment-11956 Uncle B Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:58:49 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3160#comment-11956 Better batteries, part of the solution, but better bodies the bigger part, and trying to get spoiled Americans to accept less is the biggest problem of all! It is very hard to step out of a Hummer, or Suburban, into a Tesla and feel good about it! Just sitting in the new Corvette is an ego trip worth the price! Getting a Caddie going down the pike is a life-lifting thing! Pissing around in electric cars a downer! Huge areas of heavy sheet metal, softly sprung and over-powered beyond necessity, that is the American way! and it must go ! or we must learn Arabic and worship the OPEC Princes! and even then, It won't last! i see convulsions socially, massive paradigm shifts, Anarchy, riots in the streets, wide-spread poverty and disenfranchisement, a "Class Struggle" and war among the states to counterbalance the immensity of change coming to America, not peace, nor the status quo maintained, not even by a rich few, but the rendering of American bodies in the streets for oil before this is all over! Better Batteries? Far too little, far too late! Better batteries, part of the solution, but better bodies the bigger part, and trying to get spoiled Americans to accept less is the biggest problem of all! It is very hard to step out of a Hummer, or Suburban, into a Tesla and feel good about it! Just sitting in the new Corvette is an ego trip worth the price! Getting a Caddie going down the pike is a life-lifting thing! Pissing around in electric cars a downer! Huge areas of heavy sheet metal, softly sprung and over-powered beyond necessity, that is the American way! and it must go ! or we must learn Arabic and worship the OPEC Princes! and even then, It won’t last! i see convulsions socially, massive paradigm shifts, Anarchy, riots in the streets, wide-spread poverty and disenfranchisement, a “Class Struggle” and war among the states to counterbalance the immensity of change coming to America, not peace, nor the status quo maintained, not even by a rich few, but the rendering of American bodies in the streets for oil before this is all over! Better Batteries? Far too little, far too late!

]]> By: Uncle B http://gas2.org/2009/08/05/obama-unveils-largest-ever-investment-in-advanced-batteries/#comment-34925 Uncle B Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:58:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3160#comment-34925 Better batteries, part of the solution, but better bodies the bigger part, and trying to get spoiled Americans to accept less is the biggest problem of all! It is very hard to step out of a Hummer, or Suburban, into a Tesla and feel good about it! Just sitting in the new Corvette is an ego trip worth the price! Getting a Caddie going down the pike is a life-lifting thing! Pissing around in electric cars a downer! Huge areas of heavy sheet metal, softly sprung and over-powered beyond necessity, that is the American way! and it must go ! or we must learn Arabic and worship the OPEC Princes! and even then, It won't last! i see convulsions socially, massive paradigm shifts, Anarchy, riots in the streets, wide-spread poverty and disenfranchisement, a "Class Struggle" and war among the states to counterbalance the immensity of change coming to America, not peace, nor the status quo maintained, not even by a rich few, but the rendering of American bodies in the streets for oil before this is all over! Better Batteries? Far too little, far too late! Better batteries, part of the solution, but better bodies the bigger part, and trying to get spoiled Americans to accept less is the biggest problem of all! It is very hard to step out of a Hummer, or Suburban, into a Tesla and feel good about it! Just sitting in the new Corvette is an ego trip worth the price! Getting a Caddie going down the pike is a life-lifting thing! Pissing around in electric cars a downer! Huge areas of heavy sheet metal, softly sprung and over-powered beyond necessity, that is the American way! and it must go ! or we must learn Arabic and worship the OPEC Princes! and even then, It won’t last! i see convulsions socially, massive paradigm shifts, Anarchy, riots in the streets, wide-spread poverty and disenfranchisement, a “Class Struggle” and war among the states to counterbalance the immensity of change coming to America, not peace, nor the status quo maintained, not even by a rich few, but the rendering of American bodies in the streets for oil before this is all over! Better Batteries? Far too little, far too late!

]]> By: MB http://gas2.org/2009/08/05/obama-unveils-largest-ever-investment-in-advanced-batteries/#comment-11955 MB Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:29:21 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3160#comment-11955 While I do not otherwise support this President, I was content knowing that at least there was a good chance of battery research receiving the support it needs at this critical time in the transition from oil-based hydrocarbons. If even half of that goes to the right place we may have a chance deploying a worthy competitor to the dirty but energy dense and relatively lighter ICE. While I do not otherwise support this President, I was content knowing that at least there was a good chance of battery research receiving the support it needs at this critical time in the transition from oil-based hydrocarbons. If even half of that goes to the right place we may have a chance deploying a worthy competitor to the dirty but energy dense and relatively lighter ICE.

]]> By: MB http://gas2.org/2009/08/05/obama-unveils-largest-ever-investment-in-advanced-batteries/#comment-34924 MB Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:29:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3160#comment-34924 While I do not otherwise support this President, I was content knowing that at least there was a good chance of battery research receiving the support it needs at this critical time in the transition from oil-based hydrocarbons. If even half of that goes to the right place we may have a chance deploying a worthy competitor to the dirty but energy dense and relatively lighter ICE. While I do not otherwise support this President, I was content knowing that at least there was a good chance of battery research receiving the support it needs at this critical time in the transition from oil-based hydrocarbons. If even half of that goes to the right place we may have a chance deploying a worthy competitor to the dirty but energy dense and relatively lighter ICE.

]]> By: Softsol http://gas2.org/2009/08/05/obama-unveils-largest-ever-investment-in-advanced-batteries/#comment-11954 Softsol Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:21:56 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3160#comment-11954 Obama seems serious about the future of US. Obama seems serious about the future of US.

]]> By: Tim Cleland http://gas2.org/2009/08/05/obama-unveils-largest-ever-investment-in-advanced-batteries/#comment-11953 Tim Cleland Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:39:11 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3160#comment-11953 Of all the things Obama rammed through without reading or letting Congress read, I have to say I actually like this one. The hypothesis here is, "Can we make a more efficient, less costly battery?" I just hope that, after all the $2.4B is spent, if the answer to that question turns out to be, "No, not so much", that we don't chase good money after bad. Move on to other science. Of all the things Obama rammed through without reading or letting Congress read, I have to say I actually like this one.

The hypothesis here is, “Can we make a more efficient,

less costly battery?” I just hope that, after all the $2.4B is spent, if the answer to that question turns out to be, “No, not so much”, that we don’t chase good money after bad. Move on to other science.

]]> By: Tim Cleland http://gas2.org/2009/08/05/obama-unveils-largest-ever-investment-in-advanced-batteries/#comment-34923 Tim Cleland Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:39:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3160#comment-34923 Of all the things Obama rammed through without reading or letting Congress read, I have to say I actually like this one. The hypothesis here is, "Can we make a more efficient, less costly battery?" I just hope that, after all the $2.4B is spent, if the answer to that question turns out to be, "No, not so much", that we don't chase good money after bad. Move on to other science. Of all the things Obama rammed through without reading or letting Congress read, I have to say I actually like this one.

The hypothesis here is, “Can we make a more efficient,

less costly battery?” I just hope that, after all the $2.4B is spent, if the answer to that question turns out to be, “No, not so much”, that we don’t chase good money after bad. Move on to other science.

]]> By: Technology Slice http://gas2.org/2009/08/05/obama-unveils-largest-ever-investment-in-advanced-batteries/#comment-11952 Technology Slice Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:08:21 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3160#comment-11952 Obama really seems to be dedicated to helping the environment. Obama really seems to be dedicated to helping the environment.

]]> By: Technology Slice http://gas2.org/2009/08/05/obama-unveils-largest-ever-investment-in-advanced-batteries/#comment-34922 Technology Slice Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:08:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3160#comment-34922 Obama really seems to be dedicated to helping the environment. Obama really seems to be dedicated to helping the environment.

]]> By: Susan Kraemer http://gas2.org/2009/08/05/obama-unveils-largest-ever-investment-in-advanced-batteries/#comment-11951 Susan Kraemer Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:23:35 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=3160#comment-11951 Great news. Also - Here's the full awardee list from the DOE site: all the companies and how much each gets: http://www1.eere.energy.gov/recovery/pdfs/battery_awardee_list.pdf Great news. Also – Here’s the full awardee list from the DOE site: all the companies and how much each gets:

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/recovery/pdfs/battery_awardee_list.pdf

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