Dorcy International Inc Industrial Batteries

For decades, the weak link in the chain of innovation for electric vehicles, cell phones, laptop computers and solar panels has been the disability to utilize them in the right manner due to the lack of advancements in battery technology and energy storage. Well all that seems to be coming to an end with galore very promising technologies presently underneath development.

In Cedar Park, Texas there is one start-up that seems to have formulated a very promising engineering science that may very well transform the way we store electrical energy, wind energy and solar energy for these technical wonders of the 21st Century. The company is EEStor, Inc. and it is new technology is based on a solid state ultra-capacitor; which not similar to a battery does not use any chemicals. However, it is design cannot be accurately described as an Ultra-capacitor either. Ultra-capacitors have a distinct vantage over electrochemical batteries in their capacity to absorb and release an electrical charge instantaneously, without undergoing any degradation to it is components. However, batteries have an vantage in their capacity to store much more spectacular amounts of energy at a given time.

EEStor’s ultra-capacitor is called the EESU, or Electrical Energy Storage Unit. The significance of the EESU is that it combines the best of both technologies.

The EESU’s progression is based on a barium-titanate insulator, which EEStor claims increments the specific energy of the unit far beyond that accomplishable with today’s ultracapacitor technology.

EEStor in the first place devised it is solid-state EESU technology as a lighter, longer lasting, and more environmentally friendly electronic storage unit with apps for a wide potpourri of gimmicks and industries. Part of their vision likewise was to facilitate the conversion of wind energy and solar energy from photovoltaics into important electrical energy providers, thence increasing the role of renewables in the production of an ever increasing demand for energy.

EEStor claims that this new advance allows for a specific energy of when it comes to 280 watts per kilogram. This represents a more than doubling of that of the most innovative lithium-ion engineering and more than ten times that of lead-acid batteries. This would grant an electric vehicle to travel up to 500 miles on a five minute charge. As equated to current battery engineering science which offers an intermediate 50 – 100 mile range on an for the length of one night charge. And just as significant, EEStor says they will be capable to mass-produce the units at a fraction of the cost of established batteries.

Ian Clifford of ZENN Motor Co, an early investor, says “this is a paradigm shift” in the battery industry. He likewise owns the exclusive rights for the use of the EESU engineering in electric cars. “The Achilles’ heel to the electric car industry has been energy storage. By all rights, this would make internal combustion engines unnecessary.”

ZENN Motor Co. isn’t the only company betting on this new technology. Lockheed-Martin, the world’s greatest defense contractor, has also secured the rights to use the engineering in military applications. One of the greatest venture capital firms, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has invested to a great extent in the crusade – giving substantial credence to the merits of this breakthrough technology.

If the claims made by EEStor, Inc. are true it will be tantamount to a whole new post-battery era in technology. The company likewise claims the engineering science may be scaled up or down for almost any application. The engineering could be employed in gadgets as little as pacemakers, mp3 players as well as solar panel arrays.

These Energy Storage Units could in a literal sense revolutionize the use of solar energy both in the Industrial usage of solar energy as well as the residential use of solar panels. Combining this engineering science with the recent advancements in the efficacy of solar panels could take millions of Americans altogether off the grid. Operating wholly off the grid will no longer be for an elite few, but now it may genuinely be the goal of the masses.

If it comes to fruition, the engineering science could revolutionize almost each aspect of energy storage. As if all this wasn’t enough, because it is based on solid state architecture and is not dependent on chemicals, the engineering science would be much safer than current battery technology, environmentally friendly, and the buyer would gain from the unparalleled life span of the Ultra-capacitor.

EEStor has stated that they plan to roll out the initial production units later this year, while ZENN Motor Co hopes to have cars on the road by the Fall of 2009 with the EESU Ultra-capacitor. If this engineering lives up to it is promise, not only would it be environmentally friendly but it could in the end break the strangle hold OPEC has on the American economy. We could at last see an end to $4/gallon gasoline.

Dorcy International Inc Industrial Batteries

Dorcy 41-1035 Xenon Rechargeable Lantern

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29 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
Don’t Be FOOLED!
By Honest Reviewer
I was very dissappointed with this flashlight. It looks incisively like the Sears Craftsman Professional Lantern which I and my family members have several. That is why I purchased it. However, this lantern is not the same. The Craftsman is a unfeigned professional lantern with a sealed beam bulb (real glass). Solvents and gasoline will not harm it. It won’t scratch or discolor like plastic. It is very bright with a white color to the beam. It likewise projects very, very far. It’s genuinely the best flashlight I have ever owned.

Disappointingly, the Dorcy Lantern has a regular Zenon flashlight bulb with a plastic reflector and lens. The beam is yellow equated to the Craftsman sealed beam, and is not as bright nor does it project as far. Unfortunately, for those of you looking for an splendid flashlight I am sad to say the the Craftsman Lantern is no longer available. I thought the Dorcy was an precise replacement, but I was fooled!

19 of 21 humans found the following review helpful.
Don’t Be Fooled by “Honest Reviewer”
By Robert K. Towner
I introductory purchased this flashlight in the early ’80s (25 years ago) as a Black & Decker branded flashlight and then a second as a Sears branded flashlight. Without question these were the best flashlights for home use. I purchased various of these flashlights as Christmas gifts.

I found the above rating by “Honest Reviewer” a little hard to believe. I checked Dorcy’s web web site and ran into that the substitute battery for the old Sears flashlight was the same as the current Dorcy flashlight. This flashlight had to be very similar in addition to looking the same. I decisive to go in front and order it and decisive that I would install a new seal-beam bulb when I received it. When it arrived, I opened it up and I decisive that a seal-beam bulb could be install in it. I went to Sears and purchased a substitute GE seal-beam bulb (They are also available from Dorcy) for $3.97. I installed the GE seal-beam in the new Dorcy flashlight and voilà, I had recreated the old Sears flashlight. I had annihilated the complaints that “Honest Reviewer” had with the new Dorcy flashlight.

I weighed my old Sears flashlight and my new modified Dorcy flashlight. The Sears came in at 3 lbs. 1oz. and the modified Dorcy at 2 lbs. 13 oz. I am guessing that the 4 oz. divergence is the plastic. The plastic in the case of the new Dorcy may not be as dense and/or thick. The new Dorcy may not be as lasting as the old Sears flashlight.

11 of 11 persons found the following review helpful.
Strong, long-lasting beam, good price
By Horsegal JPJ
This is our third undertake at finding a long-lasting rechargeable flashlight, which we use nightly for our doggies’ 10-minute ‘potty walk’. The beam is very strong – even though perhaps a bit more point-focused than would be idealisti – and so far, after numerous nights of use, the battery shows no sign of flagging. The product description claims both a 2-hour and 4-hour runtime (??). I like that there is a charge indicator light that goes from green(ish) to yellow to red. I’d guess we’re approaching the 2-hour point and we’re still on green. The instructions say to recharge the battery for 16 hours after each single use, which I think is ludicrous and we haven’t recharged it once yet. (If the battery lasts 2+ hours, why charge for 16 hours after each 10-minute use.) But it’s nice to know you may recharge it whenever you want. Our last rechargeable required the battery to be 100% drained before recharging, so you were forced to go without a flashlight for a 12-hour period, and it had to be completely charged before you could unplug it. This is a big improvement, all around.

UPDATE (April 2010): After more than one year of use, it’s possible but hardly noticeable yet that the battery may need to be charged a wee bit more many times – which is not often. Bear in mind, we use it for only perhaps 10 minutes a night, but that is each single night. Best flashlight we’ve ever found. A solid buy.

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