XNRGI Inc fka NPWZ

[Bill_ENG]

What stage is NEAH's battery really at a year or more after we first started hearing about it's amazing capacity.

We cannot rely on D'Couto to honestly tell us where its at as he has relied on some vague comments in articles not even in PRs to distance himself from any of it. There is no information on the website about the battery so we must look elsewhere, places that he has to disclose and not be able to to be forward looking but be very honest about where it is at.

http://defenseinnovation.us/partner/showcase/pop.php?i=2210

D'Couto will go plead NEAH's case at the SBIR/STTR innovation summit, he gets a small amount of time to convince them to give him money to move forward with development. This is good for NEAH, but in the application to be allowed to present he had to disclose the stage at which the development of the battery is at.

They put it at TRL 4.

On the scale for tech readiness a TRL 4 is described below.

"4. Component and/or breadboard validation in laboratory environment

Basic technological components are integrated to establish that they will work together. This is relatively “low fidelity” compared with the eventual system. Examples include integration of “ad hoc” hardware in the laboratory.

System concepts that have been considered and results from testing laboratory-scale breadboard(s). References to who did this work and when. Provide an estimate of how breadboard hardware and test results differ from the expected system goals."

TRL level 8 which is actual system completed and qualified thru test and demonstration is pretty far away in my opinion. Most likely another very compelling reason that D'Couto cannot get funding despite his wildly optimistic claims.

Unless he gets some action going for his fuel cells, there is nothing "exciting" happening here for a while with the battery.

JMHO

Bill