{"id":701749,"date":"2010-02-22T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16432059.post-3119892871420785818"},"modified":"2010-02-23T14:19:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T18:19:54","slug":"batteries-r-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/701749","title":{"rendered":"Batteries &#8216;R&#8217; Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Richard T. Stuebi<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Of all the cleantech technology sectors, the one I can least keep track of is batteries. For those of you who want to keep pulse of this dynamic arena, a <a href=\"http:\/\/thisweekinbatteries.blogspot.com\/\">new blog called This Week in Batteries<\/a> is just what you might be looking for.<\/p>\n<p>The host of this blog is Venkat Srinivasan, who is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/batt.lbl.gov\/\">Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies (BATT) Program<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lbl.gov\/\">Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory<\/a>, so he should be pretty near the center of the action in the battery world &#8212; at least as it pertains to electric vehicle applications.<\/p>\n<p>Srinivasan&#8217;s most recent post is a nice riff exposing the absurdity of extrapolating <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moore\">Moore&#8217;s Law<\/a> for semiconductors to other realms of technology advancement &#8212; as if forever-continuing exponential improvements won&#8217;t bump up against the laws of physics.<\/p>\n<p><em>Richard T. Stuebi is a founding principal of the advanced energy initiative at <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nortech.org\/\"><em>NorTech<\/em><\/a><em>, where he is on loan from <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clevelandfoundation.org\/\"><em>The Cleveland Foundation<\/em><\/a><em> as its Fellow of Energy and Environmental Advancement. He is also a Managing Director in charge of cleantech investment activities at <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esplp.com\/\"><em>Early Stage Partners<\/em><\/a><em>, a Cleveland-based venture capital firm.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Content provided by and all rights reserved to CleantechBlog.com.  Also check out http:\/\/www.cleantech.org<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/16432059-3119892871420785818?l=www.cleantechblog.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Richard T. Stuebi Of all the cleantech technology sectors, the one I can least keep track of is batteries. For those of you who want to keep pulse of this dynamic arena, a new blog called This Week in Batteries is just what you might be looking for. The host of this blog is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Wyx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}