According to a new report, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) gave China the rights to a green battery capable of powering an entire house for decades, which cost millions of tax dollars to develop.
Andrea Starr/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Designed at a U.S. government lab near Seattle, the vanadium redox flow battery was manufactured by a company in Washington state called UniEnergy Technologies until last year, when a DOE license transfer effectively sealed its fate to a Chinese company.
The revelation comes from NPR, which investigated the matter in partnership with the Northwest News Network. They found that the DOE violated its own licensing policies.
“This is technology made from taxpayer dollars,” Joanne Skievaski, the chief financial officer of Forever Energy, one of several U.S. companies trying to obtain the license, told NPR. “It was invented in a national lab. [Now] it’s deployed in China and held in China. To say it’s frustrating is an understatement.”
Now, China has forged ahead, investing millions into the cutting-edge green technology that was supposed to help keep the U.S. and its economy out front.
The idea for this vanadium redox battery began in the basement of a government lab — the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
It took the scientists six years and more than 15 million taxpayer dollars to uncover what they believed was the perfect vanadium battery recipe. Others had made similar batteries with vanadium, but this mix was twice as powerful and did not appear to degrade the way cellphone or car batteries do. The researchers found the batteries capable of charging and recharging for as long as 30 years.
The Government Accountability Office and their regulations found US company UniEnergy didn’t comply, but China was fine. Government agencies and regulations stand in the way of success. They’re traitorous.
Research by Bloomberg New Energy Finance in 2020 shows that Chinese companies run 80% of global battery raw material processing.
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The Energy Department long ago gave China sensitive missile and warhead technology. The info came right out of labs in NM when the former governor of that state Richardson under Clinton was director. That department was created to give us energy supply and independence. Instead like all other agencies it was turned against us.
And not one single news actor asked about this. Not one single “white house reporter” that should stand for a joke now, asked about this. We are letting the folks who released kung flu, with herr fauci’s help upon the world with being able to purchase large tracks of land next to military bases. At least we know who our leaders truly work for.
Mr 10%, Humper, and all of the Neo Bolshevik Democrats Chicom henchmen are l enemies of our Republic. You useless idiots who voted those fools into power will be cursed by future generations of American’s..How you like Mao now jack@$$’s? You own the destruction.
Why does this not surprise me that a treasonous administration would do this? But since the gift to the communist Chinese was illegal then China does not own exclusive rights to this technology. Oh, thanks to those who are pulling Biden’s strings we won’t be able to block China from using it, they cannot block us either. But then again we have a traitorous administration that hates the United States. We need President Trump back in our White House and Puppet Biden, those pulling his strings and his entire cabinet to be tried for treason. Especially Jennifer Granholm who had to have knowledge of this treasonous transfer of technology.
I looked at Vanadium Redox Batteries for my Solar System. They are a lot safer than Lithium and last longer with a lower environmental impact, but are still very expensive. Giving the Technology, or any transfer of Technology, to a hostile actor or trade competitor is simply Treason. People at the Department of Energy need to go to jail, though we should never take hanging off the table for Treason.
We used to hang people for Technology transfers to hostile foreign actors. Who benefited financially from this?
Not sure about your Solar System, but you’re right about the cost. I saw the research published quite a few years ago. At that time the semi-permeable membrane was very pricey and available only in fairly small sheets, suitable for lab research. We have to get over the idea that we won’t scale our own inventions up for industrial production.
Bill Clinton should be the first one to swing followed by Killary, Obama and the Biden family . . . then every RINO>