Every once in a while, you come across an article that seems like one thing but is actually another thing entirely. The NPR story of how “The U.S. made a breakthrough battery discovery — then gave the technology to China“, is one such article.
Several people sent this to us for opinion and review; however, the background of the article reveals something quite different. Then again, perhaps that’s exactly why NPR wrote it.
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It is important to read the story as presented by NPR, because it is oddly written as if someone is trying to use the outlet to get out ahead of something else.
The issue surrounds a new product technology called a vanadium redox flow battery. Essentially the U.S. government funded scientists to develop an advanced battery that could store energy without degrading. After success, the technology was then sent to China for manufacturing. China then invested heavily in the product and used the technology to mass manufacture the battery for the global market. The United States is now behind in the product development and manufacture.
As the story is told in NPR, “the Chinese company didn’t steal this technology. It was given to them — by the U.S. Department of Energy. First in 2017, as part of a sublicense, and later, in 2021, as part of a license transfer.” Except that’s not what happened at all. There is some major ‘ass-covering’ in that false narrative.
The lead scientist working on the vanadium redox flow battery project was a man named Gary Yang. Mr. Yang was born in China and emigrated to the U.S. becoming a U.S. citizen. Yang worked with U.S. scientists to develop the technology and was funded by a multi-million research grant from the Dept of Energy.
After their initial success, according to NPR, “in 2012, Yang applied to the Department of Energy for a license to manufacture and sell the batteries.” The Dept of Energy license was granted, and Yang launched UniEnergy Technologies as the parent company to develop the commercial application of the product.
It’s 2012 and Gary Yang was now looking for investors and manufacturing in the commercial sector to produce the battery.
Here’s where it gets interesting…. According to Yang, “he couldn’t persuade any U.S. investors to come aboard. “I talked to almost all major investment banks; none of them (wanted to) invest in batteries,” Yang said in an interview, adding that the banks wanted a return on their investments faster than the batteries would turn a profit.” This is Yang’s justification for what he did next.
After he couldn’t find U.S. investors (which I will say up front seems like an excuse), Yang then took the technology to China to have them manufacture the product.
The Chinese embraced the technology, created entire manufacturing eco-systems around it and now corner the market on the technology behind vanadium batteries. However, giving the technology to China for manufacturing and development is a violation of the license Chang was given.
Yang even admits he knew it was not allowed. “Yang’s original license requires him to sell a certain number of batteries in the U.S., and it says those batteries must be “substantially manufactured” here. In an interview, Yang acknowledged that he did not do that.” Now we start to look a little more skeptically at the claims by Gary Yang, because a whole bunch of stuff just doesn’t add up.
As noted by NPR, five years after getting the license from the Dept of Energy, “in 2017, Yang formalized the relationship and granted Dalian Rongke Power Co. Ltd. an official sublicense, allowing the company to make the batteries in China.”
After China had fully developed the technology, they obviously no longer needed Gary Yang to go global with the product. As a result of what can only be considered as ‘getting cut out’, Yang -still holding the original DoE license- then turned to Europe.
Gary Yang not only sublicensed Chinese manufacturing, supposedly without DoE notification, in 2021 he sold the license to the Netherlands.
“In 2021, Yang transferred the battery license to a European company based in the Netherlands. The company, Vanadis Power, told NPR it initially planned to continue making the batteries in China and then would set up a factory in Germany, eventually hoping to manufacture in the U.S., said Roelof Platenkamp, the company’s founding partner.
Vanadis Power needed to manufacture batteries in Europe because the European Union has strict rules about where companies manufacture products, Platenkamp said. “I have to be a European company, certainly a non-Chinese company, in Europe,” Platenkamp said in an interview with NPR.”
Before moving on, let me recap because things are going to start making sense about why this story has some major ramifications. Also, don’t overlook the timing of events and keep in the back of your mind what you know about Hunter Biden (remember, ‘energy sector’ with no experience) and Biden’s deals with China being made in/around this same timeframe.
♦ 2006 – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory original grant. “It took six years and more than 15 million taxpayer dollars for the scientists to uncover what they believed was the perfect vanadium battery recipe.“
♦ 2012 – The lead scientist, Gary Yang, asks the Dept of Energy for a license. He then creates UniEnergy Tech.
♦ 2013/2014 – Unable to find investors in the U.S., Gary Yang enters a manufacturing and development agreement with China.
♦ 2017 – Gary Yang officially grants a sublicense to Dalian Rongke Power Co. Ltd in China.
♦ 2021 – Gary Yang then sells his license to Vanadis Power in the Netherlands.
Tell me again how this NPR sentence makes sense: “the Chinese company didn’t steal this technology. It was given to them — by the U.S. Department of Energy. First in 2017, as part of a sublicense, and later, in 2021, as part of a license transfer.”
Do you see anywhere in this reformatted outline where the U.S. Dept of Energy gave the technology to anyone, except Gary Yang?
The only entity responsible for transferring the technology to China was Gary Yang.
Now, with all that in mind, check out the date on the picture that NPR uses in their article:
2015
Keep the guy on the left, Imre Gyuk, in mind as we move forward. Note the date of “2015” with Imre Gyuk and Gary Yang. They are standing together.
Remember in the NPR article, the baseline for why Yang took the technology to China was that he couldn’t find investors to manufacture in the United States.
The vanadium battery license in question would have come from Imre Gyuk’s office. Now, in addition to being the Director of Energy Storage Research in the Office of Electricity, of the Dept of Energy, Gyuk also held another role: “As part of the program he also supervises the $185M ARRA stimulus funding for Grid Scale Energy Storage
Demonstrations” {Citation}
The ARRA funds referenced were the Obama-era stimulus funds; the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds; the shovel ready jobs funds. Yet, Gary Yang cannot find investors?
Citation from 2014: “It’s not a given that lithium-ion batteries are the best batteries for electric cars, or for electrical grid storage. Other types of batteries today show promise, most of which you’ve never heard of: vanadium redox flow, zinc-based, sodium-aqueous and liquid-metal. Businesses looking to invest in batteries are deciding between these technologies and more. Market players will weigh the different technologies’ cost of manufacture, durability, usefulness.” {Citation} But Gary Yang couldn’t find U.S. investors?
Citation from 2014: “The forever battery.” A Silicon Valley startup run by old-school technologists has invented an energy storage device that could take an entire neighborhood off the grid. This magic box is called a Vanadium redox flow battery. {Citation} But Gary Yang couldn’t find U.S. investors.
Citation from 2016: “Cost-effective, reliable, and longer-lived energy storage is necessary to truly modernize the grid,” said Dr. Imre Gyuk, energy storage program manager for DOE’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, of UET’s system. “As third-generation vanadium flow batteries gain market share, it is essential to increase our understanding of storage value and optimization to accelerate adoption of integrated storage and renewable energy solutions among utilities.” {Citation} But Gary Yang couldn’t find U.S. investors. {Here’s another Citation}
Citation from 2018: “On January 23, 2018, the Chinese Academy of Sciences hosted a meeting on energy storage with distinguished guests Dr. Imre Gyuk, director of energy storage research at the United States Department of Energy, and Dr. Gary Yang, CEO of UniEnergy Technologies. Dr. Gyuk and Dr. Yang were met by China Energy Storage Alliance Chairman and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Engineering Thermophysics Deputy Director Chen Haisheng, China Energy Storage Alliance Deputy Chairman and Beijing Puneng General Manager Huang Mianyan, and CNESA Standing Council Representative and general manager of State Grid Electric Vehicle Service Company Wang Mingcai.” (image below)
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This meeting is important because Imre Gyuk and Gary Yang are together, in China in 2018. The year after the Dept of Energy license given to Gary Yang was unlawfully sublicensed to the Chinese.
NPR is correct in that U.S. taxpayers funded six years of research and development for vanadium redox flow batteries (2006-2012), and once the product was successful the technology was transferred to China (2014-2017) as part of the commercial manufacture. However, it was Gary Yang who gave it to them, and by all appearances he did so unlawfully.
There is going to be much more to this story…. Much more. We have only just begun to dig.
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We used to put these people to death…rightly so. Makes my argument to stop paying taxes that much stronger.
Precisely correct-that remedy is long overdue,quickly effective and unmistakably populist.And no riots are required-none.
any truth to the rumor that CFP is a Treeper?
What is CFP? Certified Financial Planner?
Nixon/Kissinger opened up China to the international community; Bill/Hillary Clinton opened up U.S. technology to China gratis, starting with missile guidance systems by Loral Corporation.
Bernard Schwartz is still alive at 97 in New York City. He was Bubba and the Witch’s biggest private donor 1992-96. He lives in a nice penthouse. Justice would be his last moment on earth seeing a ChiComm nuke warhead headed right at his building in Manhattan.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/04/01/public-health-professor-reveals-the-reason-for-the-urgency-of-the-vaccination-push-pesky-states-reopening-creates-a-small-window-of-opportunity-to-push-the-vaccine/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/tag/leana-wen/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/09/26/dr-leana-wen-warns-americans-that-vaccinated-people-carry-more-virus-and-are-superspreaders/
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The 1st time she appeared on CNN was right after the Boston Marathon bomb. She was supposedly in the ER treating victims. Her husband supposedly had finished the Marathon right before the bomb went off.
Riiiiight.
Notice how the video in the 3rd link above has been removed ?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/09/26/dr-leana-wen-warns-americans-that-vaccinated-people-carry-more-virus-and-are-superspreaders/
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In a rare moment of clarity, Dr. Leana Wen admits vaccinated people are now more susceptible to the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, and carry a higher load of the virus than the non-vaccinated population.
Great info, can’t wait to see what you find; I can see where it is leading though, darn money grubbers.
Why did the Biden Administration give advanced battery technology to Communist China for nothing in return?
Please read and you be the judge. Here is also a video:
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B. NPR article: https://www.npr.org/2022/08/03/1114964240/new-battery-technology-china-vanadium /
C. So why did Biden then say this? –
Did Trump and his appointees give the technology to China, or did traitorous bureaucrats do so?
90 percent plus of the established deep state would and did back stab the Republic and Trump
Traitorous Bureaucrats for sure. It was just a way to blame Trump for everything the DEms & RINOS are guilty of.
Gary Yang gave it to the Communist Chinese … after our tax dollars were stolen, I mean, used by Yang to develop the battery.
Since 2015, FBI, DOJ Hid Secret Evidence Proving Hunter And Joe Biden’s China Ties Says CIA Whistleblower – The American Report
https://theamericanreport.org/2020/10/25/since-2015-fbi-doj-hid-secret-evidence-proving-hunter-and-joe-bidens-china-ties-says-cia-whistleblower/
Hudson West III LLC = CEFC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEFC_China_Energy
All roads lead back to the Biden’s
https://web.archive.org/web/20140715212409/http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20140711000019&cid=1206
Spent my whole career in custom manufacturing in Silicon Valley – 1985- 2020- saw this type of transaction endlessly.
Bill Clinton through Loral gave the Chinese the technology to make their ICBMs accurate for millions in campaign cash. Obama gave the slave state locusts Chinese communists most favored nation status but that’s nothing compared to China Joe and his crime family. Criminals like these, Fauci and Gary Yang must be stopped if we want to keep what’s left of our free Republic. Keep up the reporting on this Conservative Tree House.
America doesn’t exist- it’s owned an operated by the CCP
Yep.
The DOE is a corrupt garbage Bureaucracy from top to bottom.
Like the FDA
This might upset some here, but one of the big names in pushing manufacturing to China (which is a type of technology transfer) was Newt Gingrich. He is good friends with the couple that wrote the books Future Shock and The Third Wave. The idea was the USA would move into being a service society and all manufacturing would be pushed to other countries. I have seen Newt push overseas manufacturing many times. So it was not just the Dems.
I worked in manufacturing most of my life and the place I worked started talking about moving to China (and elsewhere) in the 1990s. The goal was obviously to reduce cost and increase production. By having all the parts manufacturing (supply chain) in one area they could reduce inventory (which is taxed here in the US) and ordered parts could arrive very quickly. Just In Time or JIT. The whole thing became a self fulfilling prophesy. The big attraction to China and away from the US was partly the cost of healthcare for employees, JIT manufacturing, and the inventory tax problem. Or so they told us. And we all knew that once manufacturing moved out of the US, engineering would be next, and eventually management. And it did not take a genius to realize that once all those were overseas, the Chinese (or whoever) would realize that they did not need the company owners either. They would just create a new Chinese company and manufacture the product under a new name.
An so here we are in our current situation. Everything is MADE IN CHINA and almost all of it is crap.
There is very little money in a service economy.
The Globalists, Gingrich among them, sought to loot America of her manufacturing economic base.
Consequently, our nation is much poorer than we were, and China is much more powerful.
Not enough is said about Newt. It was him that allowed lobbying en masse!
‘The idea was the USA would move into being a service society and all manufacturing would be pushed to other countries.’
Yes, believe it or not, Rush Limbaugh parroted this exact same thing on his radio show one day in the 1990’s. Elaborated on how this is how ‘countries move forward’ or some such thing. And, that electronics, if made in the USA, would be unaffordable.
Thanks to the labor unions that is, for the most part, true………….they have priced themselves right out of the market.
They even coined a name for it – Post-Industrial economy!
Did Gary Yang call BlackRock? or the Koch brothers? or Warren Buffett? or the fellow who heads up Exxon? Surely every one – if not all – of them would have leaped at this opportunity. All of those folks preach the new green future gospel, and this technology might make that possible.
Our leaders are selling us out to the rest of the world and it appears they have been doing it for some time now. The coming red wave needs to usher in both consequences for the traitors of the past as well as new and much stricter laws and oversight to prevent it from happening in the future. The Great Awakening is underway. This looks like China was playing the very long game of planting this Yang person here years ago to allow him to become a citizen for exactly this type of plan. I for one think that the only way a person should be eligible to ever become a US citizen is by being born here. Others can come, have green cards and whatever, but they should never have the full privileges of citizenship. No voting, no elected office etc. even if most of them are good people, we can’t take the chance and simply do not need to.
I know one lawyer who quit practicing around 2005 to start an environmental venture capital fund. He had no problem raising capital but had trouble finding projects to invest in. He was desperate to invest in something like this, and he wasn’t the only one. There were lots of venture capitalists who were trying to ride the environmental wave.
If you are suspicious of this story (I see you, suspicious cat), I highly recommend the book Sellout by Victoria Bruce which tells the story of Jim Kennedy, a Missouri mine, rare earth metals, and Chinese take-over of technology that we, as taxpayers, funded. The story of Jim Kennedy alone, is worth the price of the book.
There needs to be an hiatus on granting any Chinese nationals or those from secondary sources for at least ten generations; and even then, they need to be here for at least four generations before being granted citizenship, even if they marry American citizens.
As for Yang and Gyuk, our legendary FBI and HLS which are so eager to take out real Americans need to quietly and permanently take out these two; and put any family members on a tramp steamer out in the pacific ocean without fuel and tell them survive, if they can: any ships trying to rescue them should be sunk without mercy.
Enough is enough.
How about we put them all in Guantanamo for a well- deserved Cuban vacation, along with our home grown traitors, and the list of them is LONG, very long. Some of them may even resist arrest when approached.Be really careful about Bill and Hillary-they are very special and precious.Coddle them with kindness, please.
If the technology and license was illegally transferred and sold to foreign countries, then an American company should be able to develop the technology here without regard to the Chinese or Netherlands claim: the transfer and sale are illegal and therefore void.
Who will prosecute these traitors?
Great job Sundance. But to me what stands out the most is “the Chinese company didn’t steal this technology…” why say that? It is literally a defense and screams, we sold the country out but we can’t say that because of our Chinese overlords…
They may have received stolen goods, but our perps stole it for that purpose and gave them a clear title to boot.
The possible “best” source of vanadium for battery production may be, ironically, crude oil…a simple search “vanadium extraction from crude oil residual” may produce interesting reading for those inclined to seek information of that nature…
Once again American Citizens get screwed by their own governments ineptitude to manage anything that requires real accountability and responsibility .
Again in the mix of this debacle : The Obama Deception !
Who profited from it and what holdings do they hold in the US !
American Tax Payers Want their money back pissed away by our HIRED HELP
Me Chinese,
Me play joke,
Me go pee pee on my adopted country and commit espionage freely as I can count on 117 Stanford University “professors” to cry “Raaaaaycist” if we continue the Trump Program to find and jail Chinese Commie agents and friends in academia and industry!!!…and in your Coke…..
THEN, there is is:
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New type of ‘flow battery’ can store 10 times the energy of the next best device – New Lithium flow batteries could be key to the widespread adoption of renewable energy
https://www.science.org/content/article/new-type-flow-battery-can-store-10-times-energy-next-best-device
As they report today in Science Advances, the novel lithium-based flow cells are able to store 10 times more energy by volume in the tanks compared with VRBs (Vanadium Flow batts).
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I’d say, those Vanadium batts are a ‘red’ (heh) herring … it MIGHT be why no one but the Chinese are investing.
…and our manufacturing capacity has been handed to them for a few pieces of silver…so who are we to counteract with the ‘leadership’ of the preceding four decades…
Here’s the “tech” we really need to be advancing, lest the Chinese scoop us in this tech: Dr. Hagen of Delft University published a paper appearing in the “International Journal of Hydrogen Energy” titled “Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) proof for the existence of molecular hydrino”.
This has ramifications because a reaction that releases 200x that of simple combustion of hydrogen is coming into its own (finally) after years of working to achieve “utility scale” power level production.
ETA: Highlights
• New allotrope of molecular hydrogen recoded by EPR.
• New molecular orbital structure confirmed having a paired and an unpaired electron.
• SQUID behavior noted for a molecular orbital.
• New fastest gas migration velocity recorded by gas chromatography.
• New state of molecular hydrogen is the basis of a new power source.
Linky please!
Interessante!
You do realize, this puts a bit of Quantum Mechanics on its ear? Paper: “Electron paramagnetic resonance proof for the existence of molecular hydrino” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360319922022406
Abstract (partial):
Quantum mechanics postulates that the hydrogen atom has a stable ground state from which it can be promoted to excited states by capture of electromagnetic radiation, with the energy of all possible states given by En = −13.598/n2 eV, in which n ≥ 1 is a positive integer.
It has been previously proposed that the n = 1 state is not the true ground state, and that so-called hydrino states of lower energy can exist, which are characterized by fractional quantum numbers n = 1/p, in which 1 < p ≤ 137 is a limited integer. Electron transition to a hydrino state, H(1/p) is non-radiative and requires a quantized amount of energy, 2mE1 (m is an integer), to be transferred to a catalyst. …
See also (for a quick overview): http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Hydrinos_explained.html
Thanks. That is quite the mystical rabbit-hole I must say.
I rather enjoyed the squabbling in the comments here:
Hydrinos: Impressive Free Energy Crackpottery
re: “I rather enjoyed the squabbling”
Again, the ONLY thing that matters is the experimental results. Physics professor Richard Feynman would tell you that in his own words – ANY theory can be ‘made up’, and debunked in those people’s minds, but, they cannot dispute repeated experimental results! The crackpots are the adherents to the over 100 yrs old (AND in need of revision) QM ‘theories’ that are curve-fitting math equations and NOT first-principles in physics based … do you get what I am saying yet?
EITHER you accept that the electron can go to a _lower_ energy state BASED on the LAB TESTING showed in the paper by Hagen, or, you are a believer in the ‘fallacies in your own mind’ – WHICH is it? BOTH cannot exist …
MAYBE you can explain other phenom involving Hydrogen – because MOST people cannot … for instance, H + H -> H2 requires a THIRD BODY to which ‘heat’ energy is transferred – there is NO photon involved! No ‘IR signature’, do you know that? See, don’t be ill-equipped in this ‘game’, most ppl don’t know even the first, elementary things about simple Hydrogen even!! If you go reading wiki your mind will be poisoned on this … better to look at the links on this page and start here: https://www.reddit.com/r/hydrino/
Again, and I repeat myself – Do not lose sight of this aspect (b/c, most ppl have attention span of a gnat):
Here’s the “tech” we really need to be advancing, lest the Chinese scoop us in this tech: Dr. Hagen of Delft University published a paper appearing in the “International Journal of Hydrogen Energy” titled “Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) proof for the existence of molecular hydrino”.
If you pay attention to the sideshows, like ‘goodmath’ etc THEN all you really want is entertainment, and you are not seriously interested in this field …
I always ask the questions when I hear some BS jobs report : How many steel production mills , foundry’s , machine shops , shipyards , stamping and assembly plants opened employing more people making as much or more in wages and benefits then the 4 million plus government workers answer ZERO !
The tax base of union labor that built this country was tossed overboard 40 to 50 years ago and the DEMONS IN DC kept all the balls in the air and plates spinning with debt and we all out here with bankrupted pension and benefit programs know it .
When will the government pensions feel the same hit as blue collar America ?
Their money evaporated too but that direct deposit keeps filling the bank accounts from a dry well
Washington D. C. has sold out this nation.
Judas sold out Jesus for 30 pieces of silver; we can expect similar behavior from our political class …
“But Gary Yang couldn’t find U.S. investors.”
If we had any functioning investigative agency…it shouldn’t be that difficult to ask Yang for a list of investors he approached.
And for him to provide the list.
American battery entrepreneurs go to China for manufacturing because the Chinese graduate millions more engineers every year than the US does and Chinese law favors manufacturing. American universities graduate aspiring bureaucrats and anti-factory climate cultists. Factories in the US must gain approval from EPA climate nags for every step, deeming battery chemistry “dirty” and a cause of “climate change”.
New US license to bring vanadium redox flow batteries to market …https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=www.pv-magazine.comwww.pv-magazine.com/2022/03/03/new-us-license-to-bring-vanadium-redox-flow-batteries-to-market
Mar 3, 2022 … Unlike lithium-ion batteries, vanadium flow batteries store energy in a non-flammable, liquid electrolyte and do not degrade with cycling. They …