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The U.S. made a breakthrough battery discovery–then gave the tech to China

42 points by plasticchris 4y ago

giuliomagnifico 4y ago
> They were building a battery — a vanadium redox flow battery — based on a design created by two dozen U.S. scientists at a government lab. The batteries were about the size of a refrigerator, held enough energy to power a house, and could be used for decades. Well, it’s an interesting story but there’re so many new “breakthrough battery discoveries” that I don’t think this could be dramatic, I also think that U.S. don’t sell things to China if they think this thing could be even barely useful inside the tech world.
LiquidSky 4y ago
I hope this Chin guy appreciated it.
- lambdaba 4y ago
  Titles have a max length, in case you didn’t know
  - lambdaba 4y ago
    Abbreviating technology to “tech” would be better
    - plasticchris 4y ago
      Done :) thanks I didn’t even notice when submitting
skellyclock 4y ago
Gary Yang has published over 200 research articles that have been cited over 18,000 times and has over 50 US and foreign patents granted or in pending.
- remarkEon 4y ago
  They he should be well aware of the rules here, shouldn’t he?
trasz 4y ago
Gave, or just sold?
petegordon 4y ago
Interesting. The article reads to me like a corporate and political public relations campaign for the license by Forever Energy. Though, the license does seem to be getting transferred around internationally. I read that UniEnergy Technologies declared bankruptcy in October 2021. I wish the USA had more transparent intellectual property laws and publicly available licensing for government funded research, something more similar to FOSS communities. https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2021/10/27/the-week-in-bankruptcies-unienergy-technologies-llc.html https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2021/10/27/the-week... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniEnergy_Technologies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniEnergy_Technologies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_softwar...

42 points by plasticchris 4y ago

> They were building a battery — a vanadium redox flow battery — based on a design created by two dozen U.S. scientists at a government lab. The batteries were about the size of a refrigerator, held enough energy to power a house, and could be used for decades. Well, it’s an interesting story but there’re so many new “breakthrough battery discoveries” that I don’t think this could be dramatic, I also think that U.S. don’t sell things to China if they think this thing could be even barely useful inside the tech world.

LiquidSky 4y ago

I hope this Chin guy appreciated it.

lambdaba 4y ago
Titles have a max length, in case you didn’t know
- lambdaba 4y ago
  Abbreviating technology to “tech” would be better
  - plasticchris 4y ago
    Done :) thanks I didn’t even notice when submitting

skellyclock 4y ago

Gary Yang has published over 200 research articles that have been cited over 18,000 times and has over 50 US and foreign patents granted or in pending.

remarkEon 4y ago
They he should be well aware of the rules here, shouldn’t he?

trasz 4y ago

Gave, or just sold?

petegordon 4y ago

Interesting. The article reads to me like a corporate and political public relations campaign for the license by Forever Energy. Though, the license does seem to be getting transferred around internationally. I read that UniEnergy Technologies declared bankruptcy in October 2021. I wish the USA had more transparent intellectual property laws and publicly available licensing for government funded research, something more similar to FOSS communities. https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2021/10/27/the-week-in-bankruptcies-unienergy-technologies-llc.html https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2021/10/27/the-week... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniEnergy_Technologies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniEnergy_Technologies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_softwar...