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DOE wants 5X battery power boost in 5 years
Establishes center for battery research at Argonne National Laboratory
By Patrick Thibodeau
November 30, 2012 04:02 PM ET
DOE wants 5X battery power boost in 5 years - Computerworld
It's good to push towards goals. I have no problem with us trying!
Establishes center for battery research at Argonne National Laboratory
By Patrick Thibodeau
November 30, 2012 04:02 PM ET
DOE wants 5X battery power boost in 5 years - Computerworld
Computerworld - The U.S. Dept. of Energy has set a goal to develop battery and energy storage technologies that are five times more powerful and five times cheaper than today's within five years.
To accomplish this, U.S. Energy Secretary Stephen Chu is taking some lesson from U.S. history.
The DOE is creating a new Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, at a cost of $120 million over five years, that's intended to reproduce development environments that were successfully used by Bell Laboratories in the World War II Manhattan Project that produced an atomic bomb.
"When you had to deliver the goods very, very quickly, you needed to put the best scientists next to the best engineers across disciplines to get very focused," said Chu at a press conference Friday that was streamed live from Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The center will be located there.
It's good to push towards goals. I have no problem with us trying!