Replies to post #862 on Eagle-Picher Corp. (fka EGLP)

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Yes sir, we got grant money:

Rounding out the four largest grants was $7.2 million to develop low cost, megawatt-rated batteries capable of backing up and smoothing out the intermittent energy supply from wind farms and other renewable sources. Today, such power-grid-scale batteries are prohibitively expensive for most renewable energy applications.

EaglePicher Technologies of Joplin, Missouri, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, will use the funds to develop a sodium beta alumina battery that will cost no more than $200 per kilowatt hour of capacity, compared with about $500 today.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427355.300-us-bets-150m-on-renewable-energy.html