Bob Moriarty should write a new article... Neah Power Systems, a company that is developing a longer-life and safer lithium-ion battery with and update....as well as the DOE the should all be ready for an update...
A month or so back one of my readers sent me some information about a young company based near Seattle that has built a better mousetrap battery. The company is named Neah Power Systems Inc. (NPWZ:OTCBB) and they have invented a better and safer battery. It's a lithium battery but one that has a higher power density than other lithium batteries now in use. Comparing the Tesla 18650 battery, the Neah Power battery has 1500 Watt-hours per liter (Wh/L) and 500 Watt-hours per kilogram (Wh/kg) and the standard Tesla 18650 battery has 280 Wh/l and 120 Wh/kg. Thus the Neah Power battery delivers 400%–500% more power than the Tesla battery and is safer.
The standard battery powering the current body cameras for police needs recharging every four hours. Neah Power has an order from a company supplying police cameras and the Neah Power battery will last a full shift or up to thirteen hours between charges.
I can't go into the technical details of what makes the batteries better because I don't understand all of the issues but basically the internals of the battery are fabricated on standard computer chip making machines. The Neah Power battery is made up of 320,000 micro batteries per square inch. If for any reason one of the 320,000 micro batteries goes bad, due to the physical separation between the individual batteries, there is no cross contamination. With a conventional two-dimensional battery, every point is connected to every other point. When one fails, the whole thing blows up. Literally.
Neah Power suffers the same sorts of problems every other young technical company suffers from. They have a lack of money and a lack of visibility. I liked the story enough that I went out on the open market and bought shares. The company needs to raise money and should any readers be interested, I suggest you contact the President Chris D'Couto directly for more information.
I hate the share structure; they have 1.9 billion shares outstanding and as of right now, the shares are quoted at $0.0009 apiece. I had a real problem figuring out just how many shares I got and I was afraid when I placed an order in getting the decimal point in the wrong place and owning the company shortly thereafter. But as of right now the company has a market cap of about $1.7 million. Various projections guess the total demand for battery storage in the world between $60 billion and $120 billion per year.
The process that Neah Power has invented to create the battery innards on a chip-making machine is highly scalable, unlike current technology. The company is in discussion with various large computer companies and automobile manufacturers but naturally whom they are talking to is not public information.
Neah Power did recently receive a grant from the U.S Department of Energy for their lithium battery development. It wouldn't take much in the way of news to drive this stock far higher. And like many other new mousetraps companies, they either succeed wildly or fail totally.
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