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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I did a patent search and see that UET co-founder Dr. Li has a number of patents related to redox-flow battery systems filled around 2020. Most are assigned to “Creek Channel Inc” a company registered in Washington State. Not sure of the significance of this if any just adding to the knowledge base.
https://patents.justia.com/inventor/liyu-li
I had a look at UniEnergy Technologies facility just north of Seattle (next to Paine Field) on Google maps
https://www.google.com/maps/place/UniEnergy+Technologies,+LLC/@47.8888681,-122.2912499,227m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x5490040a30749903:0xa950ce9735098e7e!2sUniEnergy+Technologies,+LLC!8m2!3d47.8886754!4d-122.2914889!3m4!1s0x5490040a30749903:0xa950ce9735098e7e!8m2!3d47.8886754!4d-122.2914889
It looks like a manufacturing plant. On the east side of the building you can see what appear to be four modular battery units with cooling on the top.
Many of the same players: U.S. Dept of Energy, Pacific Northwest National Labs, UniEnergy, etc mentioned in this Vanadis Power doc from 2013.
https://web.archive.org/web/20131107053257/http://www.vanadispower.com/resources/Vanadium+Flow+Battery_20130705.pdf
Remember in 2020 a Harvard professor was arrested for ChiCom espionage. – https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-and-two-chinese-nationals-charged-three-separate-china-related
Unrestricted warfare.
There are thousands/millions of similar theft, from the very small to the very large. Ask the controlling shareholder of Blackberry how Huawei got their technology. Infiltration, theft, and deceit is the CCP way.
The Chinese steal the patent on Legos.
You’re correct. Deceit and theft by the Chinese. Problem is, this has been known for decades. Obviously, this has been and is still being facilitated and now it’s blatantly out in the open.
Remember in the 1990’s when Wen Ho Lee was stealing nuclear technology from Los Alamos National Labs.
Infiltration of academia and the national labs has been going on for quite a while.
Clinton energy secretary Hazel O’Leary greased the skids for them by relaxing security. She was another Democrat that praised Mao, and one of the first I’m aware of to scrub her connections to CPUSA from the internet.
https://irp.fas.org/congress/2001_rpt/whl.html
…”The special Judiciary subcommittee on Department of Justice Oversight, which I chaired in the last Congress, began oversight on the Wen Ho Lee case and several other matters in September 1999, but suspended its review of this case at the request of FBI Director Louis Freeh after Dr. Lee was indicted and jailed on December 10, 1999.”…
Didn’t Louis Freeh give $100k to a trust for the Biden grandchildren?
I agree that the US Secretaries of Energy are an important part of this story and timeline.
After Hazel O’Leary, Epstein’s pal Bill Richardson.
Samuel Bodman and
Steven Chu have a big red connection. (Steven Chu’s maternal grandfather has an interesting history in the development of hydraulics technology in China. Bodman was a member of the big red board while he was energy secretary, even endowed the VP for facilities position during the life sciences initiative, and campus sustainability initiative in the early 2000’s. Citi’s chairman Weil was also on the board.)
Ernest Moniz.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Energy
Wasn’t Steven Chu the first Obama official to publicly state fossil fuel energy prices needed to skyrocket ($10/gallon gasoline) in order to transition to green energy, and that there needed to be a carbon credit system?
His grandfather:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shu-tien_Li
Yes, Freeh did that – https://nypost.com/2021/05/20/ex-fbi-chief-gave-100k-to-biden-grandkid-trust-as-he-sought-future-work-hunter-emails/
He was also the FBI Director when Craig Livingstone delivered FBI files to H. Clinton.
You can thank President GHW Bush and AG Bill Barr for forcing out FBI Director William Sessions (who started an investigation in DOJ corruption) and paving the way for Freeh – Meuller – Comey – Wray.
Freeh was also director on 9/11
Between 2012 and 2017, look for possible abuse of the EB-5 visa program. Where did Yang get the operating capital for those five years?
The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa Program gives green cards to foreign investors. Bring $500k and get a green card. Who cares what happens after that. The green card buyer and his family stay in the USA while the company fizzles.
A prime example of the EB-5 abuse was the scam pulled by Terry McAuliffe and Hugh Rodham (Hillary Clinton’s brother) back in the same time period. It was the GreenTech Automotive scam.
https://eb5projects.com/free-file-download/65
“Backed by Chinese investors, UniEnergy employs about 40 people now, but it has expansion plans as it moves from testing to manufacturing and sales.”
From the Seattle Times, December 15, 2015: Following the money: Ethics concerns muddy state’s clean-energy grant program
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/following-the-money-ethics-concerns-muddy-states-clean-energy-grant-program/
All of this theft is financed from Americans buying “made in China” goods forced on them, by a lack of American made alternatives, by the U.S. Chamber of Chinese Commerce. (I’m looking at you Mitch.)
It’s a real shame that China develops next to nothing themselves that is worth stealing. Revenge would be sweet, if the Chinese only had any proprietary original tech we could cop from them.
As much as I hate to disappoint you guys, this story is very unlikely to turn out to be a James Bond level conspiracy. Quite to the contrary, it is a typical story—a rule rather than an exception…
The vast majority of U.S. investment banks and Private Equity companies are in business of manipulating the market, advancing the interests of their clients (Fortune 500 companies) and praying upon existing businesses. They do not really understand manufacturing (or the underlying technology) and, most importantly, have no interest in dealing with any long-term capital investment, which they consider “too risky.”
The so called Venture Capitalists, too, would typically prefer a simplistic, unoriginal and rather easily digestible idea (for mostly mediocre minds) to any capital-intensive investment in manufacturing and technology that required a certain level of expertise (they most likely do not possess) and 3-5 years to start turning profits.
The U.S. financial industry is all about short-term speculations and compliance with federal laws and regulations designed and passed to discourage the financial executives and (VC/PE fund) promoters from taking any long-term risks and creating competition to large multi-nationals (the so called corporate oligarchy).
That said, by moving our manufacturing overseas and producing an unprecedented amount of securities laws and capital market regulations (mostly to protect the Wall street financial institutions and secure the Big Club’s access to proprietary, lucrative deals) we have also produced a new class of incompetent, lazy career financial executives and parasitic well connected investors unwilling and incapable of long-term thinking.
The rot is systemic. This is how the financial system works… by design.
Sure, but that doesn’t excuse or erase the severe, corrupt, criminal activities perpetrated by the cast of regime scum and the slant crook discussed in the article.
Exactly Mr Jones. I’m curious as to the background of Mr Walker. How do you not even address the scandalous background noise screaming off of the article itself?
Because it’s mostly a distraction from the root cause of the problem…
Not a fan of treating diseases with pain killers, if you know what I mean. That’s low resolution thinking or red meat, whatever you want to call it.
This is like hoping that the next GOP Congress or a Republican POTUS will solve our problems.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein
Well, obviously to some extent it does plus it would be very naive on your part to disregatd the fact that the majority of people are opportunists.
Just imagine that you are that scientist who spent years developing a cutting-edge tech only to find out that the system is so corrupt that it would rather you walked away because they were too invested in an inferior tech.
Also, most people of high status are deeply compromised by their need to be perceived as intelligent, which is validated though current social consensus (the media, academia, saying THIS is what smart people think). There’s a reason why in so many breakthroughs throughout history, the prevailing consensus was not initially open minded to the breakthrough but rather specifically hostile to it. No one REALLY wants to consider something new at risk of losing status as a “smart person.”
That said, I am a big believer in the Root Cause Analysis, which is a method of problem solving used for identifying the root causes of faults or problems.
Again, this case is not an exception.
Your second paragraph describes well the history of Nicola Tesla.
“The Dukes” are at it again.
“It was the Dukes, it was the Dukes.”
🤣🤣🤣
None of this would be happening without internationalism. There is always corruption, but with one nation in one state or a group of similar nations joined together in a federation for mutual self defense (old America), it is possible to minimize, contain, and remediate it.
“The rot is systemic” because America is filled with too many foreigners who are here to grab as much loot as they can and have no ‘skin in the game’ with respect to the long term health of our civilization. They don’t care. They have no patriotism because it is not their patria (fatherland). Their European ethnic collaborators, like Jay Inslee pictured above, whether post-marxist or crony corporatists, don’t have a patria either because they think that no one should have one.
Great comment Horace!! You nailed it. The Chinese society in particular is one built on corruption. The Chinese will steal anything from anyone and have no qualms about it. It is a cultural feature.
They are a vampire society. This is why it was breathtaking stupid to ever allow them into the WTO. It was equally stupid to allow mass immigration from that country. Free trade always brings mass immigration with it.
People like Rush Limbaugh and all of the other free trade cheerleaders helped destroy our country. Sorry it’s just the truth. Those people had no knowledge of the cultural differences in the societies and they did not care. Quick profits for a few at the top were who they shilled for.
Rush Limbaugh never cheered on China in any form. He understood the situation. Free trade never included giving away our technology advancements or allowing China to steal it and Rush always called China out when it was known to be happening.
Oh but yes he did. When NAFTA and GATT were being considered he dismissed lots of people who told him it was a bad idea. That the idea of “free trade” would never work out the way he thought. He was adamant in his defense of “free trade” and including China in it. He said: “I want America to kick butt” in reference to allowing China into more free trade agreements. Limbaugh did this because at the time that was the position of all of the GOP power players.
I understand that much later Limbaugh would change his tune with regard to China but he never said he was wrong about how “free trade” worked out or that he had been mistaken about China.
I listened to every Limbaugh afternoon radio show starting in late 1991 until he died. When NAFTA came up, he defended NAFTA quite energetically.
It was and still is my opinion that Rush was completely hoodwinked (misled) by the globalist Republicans during that time as to the likely long term impacts of the policies. Rush was frequently sought by the NeoCons starting with GHWBush (41) and then GWBush (43) to let them be interviewed on his show. I believe they fed him the same lines they fed America about how globalization would benefit Americans and their jobs etc. Rush was not sufficiently astute an economics expert to see the inaccuracies in their forecasts. Few pundits were.
But Rush came to realize that the off-shoring of American manufacturing was harming us across many sectors. He finally became aware of the Chinese economic power, but only in the last decade or so.
It was too late unfortunately for him to help America learn about the perfidy of the GOP / RINOs when e finally began distancing himself from their actions. I believe the realization of what the GOP was doing with the NAFTA and other globalist policies resulted in him having felt betrayed and suckered into believing the GOP’s BS about globalism; that’s why he became Trump’s ardent fan in mid-2016.
Hong Kongers called Mainlanders “locusts”. That about says it all.
You do not understand the “free trade” that Limbaugh advocated
What Limbaugh thought he advocated has no bearing on the point. He had no understanding of what the practical application of “free trade” would mean and he did not want to listen. Many people told Limbaugh that it would not work out the way he thought and he dismissed all of them as “not understanding free trade.” He was the one who did not understand. He fell for the scam.
He came to his conclusion because the power brokers in the GOP wanted it that way. He subscribed to the GOP embrace of “Ricardian economics” because that is what the main GOP corporatists wanted.
I believe in the last few years Limbaugh came to understand his mistake but he never admitted it.
Many of us were duped by many of those in power.
If one remembers, Rush was not alone in being deceived about the ultimate result of free trade with China. It is like calling someone out for being for capitalism, when they do not understand that crony capitalism is anything but real capitalism.
Wow, wow, wow!!! Are you trying to say that our system is not corrupt? On what planet did you get to spend most of your time?
Biden, Clinton, Bush, Cheney, Pelosi, McConnel, Collins, Ryan, Manchin, Graham, Wray, Mueller, Romney, Warner, Sasse and others…
Don’t they come from American parents, and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses, and American universities?
Where are all the bright, honest, intelligent Americans ready to step in and save the nation and lead the way?
We don’t have people like that in this country.
Are you even self-aware?
All kidding aside, the guy who developed this tech was a Chinese. He didn’t steal anything and he tried tofind a U.S. investor…
Globalism, the wave upon which the Chinese Dictatorship rides.
Let me respond to this with a quote from George Carlin, may he RIP:
Now there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from “another reality”. They come from American parents, and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses, and American universities. And they’re elected by American citizens.
This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in. Garbage out.
If you have selfish ignorant citizens… If you have selfish ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish ignorant leaders.
[…]Because if it’s really just the fault of these politicians, then where are all the other bright people of conscience? Where are all the bright, honest, intelligent Americans ready to step in and save the nation and lead the way? We don’t have people like that in this country. Everybody’s at the mall scratching his ass, picking his nose, taking out his credit card out of a fannie-pack, and buying a pair of sneakers with lights in them.
One place this story should go is towards Mr. Yang’s indictment. This was not his technology to sell. Where did the proceeds from the sale(s) of this technology go? cui prodest?
The profit is a thousand-fold or more to China for the pittance they pay for the plants inside the USA.
Even more so to indictments of those in the DOE in Washington state who facilitated the technology transfer without receiving proper authorization from the department’s heads. And was President Trump ever made aware of this? It is hard to believe he was ever informed of the transfer of such an important battery technology to China.
Weird bc this was all happening at the same time as the Solyndra debacle, and they managed to find investors.
Obama.
Which is why nothing will ever come of this story.
If we want to regain our nation we must push forward and choose the battles that can be won. Not rehash the past. I’m as pissed as anyone about the 2020 elections being stolen, but that battle is already done. The RINO’s already conceded that for us.
We need to do the hard work and recover the local governments and as Sundance terms “extreme federalism”.
The stories like this one are important in remembering the times we were unaware of what was really going on. The real battles are preventing them and the next generation of swindles from ever happening.
Don’t get me wrong, I am all for bringing these criminals to justice, but is important that we only allocate a smaller percentage of our efforts to these past battles. We must focus our major efforts on the new battles, like getting rid of RINOs and regaining control of our schools, etc.
To “push forward” America has to become a “Capitalist” country again where available capital will go to emerging companies that create new products and new jobs.
We need to understand the lessons we should have learned from debacles like this Vanadium Reflux flow battery, and change the way the system is stifling new innovation.
A major part of the problem is that the entire American financial system is now based upon on the idea to protect existing Multinational Corporations from competition from new products. The currrent barriers to entry to the market have been raised to impossible heights by the Dems and NeverTrumpers like McConnell, Thune, Romney, Bush et al to prevent a dynamic economy from again emerging in America.
Beyond the Financial side, the whole censorship idea pushed by the woke everywhere is in part, beyond the horrific political effects, to prevent the flow of new ideas which lead to innovation. Innovation is bad to these Great Reset fellow travelers because it will likely upsetter time the apple cart of those in power.
How can a country ” move forward” if the election process is rife with fraud?
If none of the perps are held accountable, no one brought to justice, it will keep happening.
Indeed, and while we work, hope and pray that extreme federalism wins the day in the polls and beyond, we must shore up ourselves and our kinfolk for the storm coming our way. We must be prepared with food, medicines and all manner of necessities, in case the supply to China is cut, so, we can survive.
And his pockets. Kalorama and Martha’s Vineyard mansion funding.
YOU’RE DELIBERATELY CLOUDING THE ISSUE.
The issue has nothing to do with investment banks or bankers, the U.S. financial industry, or anything else you mentioned as ’cause’.
The issue is individuals in the USA conspiring to violate DOE licensing as well as conspiring to provide support and technology to the number one foreign national threat to the USA, which is China.
The number one national threat to the USA is the Uniparty, headed by Obama, Jarrett, and the Fourth Branch.
I think you didn’t read the last paragraph. Sundance states Yang illegally transferred the license to China. Yang’s claim about being unable to secure financing in the US Is clearly a lie. There was no claim by Sundance that banks or the financial industry were the cause. Sundance showed that blaming the banks is just the excuse.
Talking about banks in the context of funding new battery technology is off the mark. There are huge Silicon Valley venture funds dedicated to clean energy. Plus all manner of heavy industry would have a strategic interest in owning a piece of a more efficient battery technology.
Same with PE funds, which only invest in companies that are already making money.
Actually Joe Meek echoed Sundance’s assertions. It was AL Walker who tried to blame the tech transfer on venture capitalists / investment banks’ “normal” practices after SD had already debunked that as an excuse.
This is so much bigger than Obama and company. Yes, I believe this is his third term. No, I do not believe he is the mastermind. He is just the organizer and a highly paid one at that. It is bigger than Soros, Kissinger and Schwab. Who do THEY answer to? Who funds them? The Queen, the Pope, the Rockfellers, the Rothschilds, the Poseur (spelling iffy)? It’s like pulling weeds, one needs to eradicate the root.
Poseur (spelling iffy)?
Non, c’est parfait!
I still say this is World War Xi, the creators of the creators of the WEF created modern China, who inherited the entire Communist Conspiracy upon the demise of the Soviet Union.
China probably owns our Derp State Fourth Branch harder than any other force on the planet.
Al Walker
China friendship award winners and early 2009-2011) Shenzhen Peacocks: one a former ivy research university president, and one the former head of business for Citibank Asia.
http://www.lehman-intl.com/jeffreylehman/press_clip_collection/shenzhen-peacock-plan.pdf
Another example of “it’s a big club and we ain’t in it”.
Al Walker is absolutely correct. Investment from the Big Banks and Vulture Capitalists is almost impossible. I am involved in a cutting edge technology firm that should be making products to help the American Economy but is instead shut down right now with the distinct possibility of it folding.
December 28, 2015 – UniEnergy pulls in $25M from investors. The investment comes from Tokyo investment firm Orix and from existing investors. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/industrial-battery-maker-unienergy-pulls-in-25m-from-investors/
“$25M is nothing” – The nefarious ccp slant operative, Gary Yang
China mines vanadium, the US not so much.
Article indicates that after six years they knew the battery would last 30 years. Neat trick.
No one makes any mention of: HOW MUCH DOES IT COST? If it ain’t economically feasible, then what good is it?
If they drive up energy costs then when does it become feasible 😉
remote sites and off the grid or power shifting that can pay a storage premium
Hard to say when you don’t know how much it costs. Also this gizmo doesn’t produce energy, it stores energy produced by some other method.
30 year lifespan! Great and economical, but I wouldn’t put money into it. That’s like investing in Windows 95. No one wants obsolete technology. The money is made on “new and improved” models. Vance Packard was on to this in the 1960’s with “planned obsolescence”.
I can see why Gary Yang had a problem. Let’s see if China benefits from selling a 30-year battery.
Maybe Chyna would benefit more by using it within Chyna and not selling it.
Reminds me of Honda pushmowers when they really took off here in the States. They were too good. They lasted so long that people would only buy one..
This is true! I have one and after three years, the thing starts with one pull, even after sitting there all winter!
My ten-year-old Craftsman still starts on the first pull, even after sitting after months of non-use. Changed the spark plug once and it’s on its third blade.
Benefits of the technology supposedly include the following:
– No degradation in performance over time (Li bats degrade to 80% over time);
– Va can be recycled (unlike Li and disposal will be a major cost);
– Not an expert but these seem to be batteries aimed at industrial scale use… eg office buildings, communities, etc. The battery storage capacity is apparently determined by a tank holding a water-based solution of Va ions. While Li batteries are lighter weight, more appropriate for homes and cars, the storage capacity is comparatively limited.
I would think there is a market for this technology, but I suspect it would require patient capital. Nevertheless, in an environment where cost of capital was almost nothing, I would expect investors crawling out of the woodwork on this.
The question is, after only six years of development, how do they know that it lasts for 30 years?
Indeed, a recent article indicates only a 20 year lifespan. How do they even know this when it hasn’t been used this long in real world conditions?
https://www.energy-storage.news/rising-flow-battery-demand-will-drive-global-vanadium-production-to-double-by-2031/
Knowing little of Rare Earth Minerals, I will bet my left tater Sub-Saharan Africa is loaded to the gills with vanadium.
Yes, it doesn’t fit into their “planned obsolescence program” to get people to purchase again and again and again! I have an outstanding Krups coffee maker that I purchased in 1999 – still going great! They don’t make them any more.
Maybe instead of selling the batteries outright, they will lease them out with a monthly subscription.
Highly doubt it. Those batteries are YUGE. The one behind Inslee and friends is a smaller one.
The point here is, the law, actually, many laws from Congress allowing foreigners to sojourn here as citizens and break the law. This CHY-na crap began with the Xlinton’s in the 90s. Probably spearheaded by Hitlery, because BJ was chasing skirts.
They found a lot in sea mud off Japan.
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2141445/discovery-rare-earth-minerals-japan-coast-secures-780-years
Good find.
Interesting. Two thousand kilometers away and being contested by China.
Does this business ever get any less convoluted?
I wonder about North Korea as well, they are a mineral nirvana, as, I suspect, is much of Siberia.
Book of Revelation sixth seal judgement…15Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 16And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. 17For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”…
I don’t think the elites a going to a real cave with bats and snakes, no they have their “cave” already built.
A thirty year battery that doesn’t degrade would be awfully important if you were an elite type who is building an expensive bunker to hide in to avoid a war or planned bio attack.
See link below, it’s Brannon Howse (24:20 mark) talking about an elite who everyone would know who is building a multi-million dollar bunker. The whole video is a good watch.
https://frankspeech.com/video/culling-humanity-about-greatly-increase
They don’t know its a thirty year battery. It hasn’t been tested in the real world that long. Other articles have already reduced 30 to 20 years and they don’t really have data for that.
Have you tried to buy an energy storage system lately? For a 2500 sq ft home in the sunny south, a rooftop solar system, after the govt rebate, is about $15-20k. Add in energy storage (eg, Tesla or EnPhase) so you can have solar power at night, and you basically double the price. That’s for battery plus some relatively simple electronics (eg, switching and inverters). Costs to mfr and ship are certainly important and will determine profitability, but a large energy storage device, supposed better than Li ion, is worth a lot of money. Think about where your energy will come from when total societal breakdown occurs and you’ll get the point.
That $30k – $40k (including battery) will run your lights and small appliances but does not have the necessary Kw power to run your HVAC system. So even with the large investment in solar and batteries the house will still need to be hooked up to main power.
Again, how much does it cost? Is it economically feasible if it costs 5 times a Li ion? 10 times? 20 Times?
I still contend that the Japanese proclamation after the war: “If you are going to beat America, you must buy them,” is still in play. And the CCP took it to heart.
The mythical Fortess Nation and the equally mythical stuff its people think it owns:
The US gave ‘its’ battery technology to China
The US left behind half ‘its’ military materiele in Afghanistan and the other half soon in Ukraine.
The US sent ‘its’ bacteriological weapon knolwedge to Taiwan, Ukraine and Wuhan.
The last great charade is the sustained notion (against mounting evidence) of discrete sovereignty of the nation-state when in fact, to the transnationalists who run the planet, the difference between a lab at UNC Chapel Hill and a lab in Wuhan is like (for you and me), the difference between Kansas and Minnesota. Mere zip codes and logistics.
Nation-states are a boon to rattling sabres and shuffling chess pieces around; the king of all divide-and-conquer stratagems, making even the Red-Blue con game like amateurish in comparison. Wielded properly, nation-states also get millions of people to fight millions of other people.
All the stuff was left behind in Afghanistan in the hands of the most seasoned fighters in Eurasia because the owners of the world who own everything (Americans were the tenant farmers of-the-moment who don’t really own it but surely will bear the legacy debt incurred during their tenancy for producing it) want it there for the oncoming Eurasian Century.
Call it the Great Dispossession. Nations are hollowed-out vestiges of their prior selves kept around for some residual value.
Exactly.
Unless/until you place a rope around enough of their treasonous necks and/or
have a population that can create a defendable, competitive economic and legal structure.
Which China has done, but it’s even worse.
And they have almost totally subverted ours.
Tax payers in the USA paid for this technology to be developed. Once developed, manufacturing was moved to China. That’s the story and it’s illegal.
Someone please explain why/how taxpayer funded research allows patents to go to the researchers? Same pattern as Fauci and NIH.
Before vanadium batteries, it was clean coal technology. Seneca Global Advisors reported as a paid lobbyist for GreatPoint Energy in 2008.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/GreatPoint_Energy
GreatPoint Energy has some connection to Dominion Energy:
https://netl.doe.gov/research/Coal/energy-systems/gasification/gasifipedia/gpe
Dominion Energy appointed William Barr to its board in 2009:
https://www.dominionenergy.com/our-stories
…”RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 17, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The board of directors of Dominion (NYSE: D) today elected two new directors, effective Dec. 18. The election of William P. Barr and Robert H. Spilman, Jr., brings the size of the Dominion board from 10 to 12.”…
…”Barr, 59, served as executive vice president and general counsel of Verizon Communications from 2000 to 2008. From 1991 to 1993, he served as the 77th Attorney General of the United States. He joined GTE Corporation as executive vice president and general counsel in 1994, serving in that capacity for six years. He is a director of Time Warner, Selected Funds and Holcim US. Barr received A.B. and M.A. degrees from Columbia University and a J.D. degree from George Washington University.”…
…”
GreatPoint designed, constructed, and operated a pilot facility located at Dominion’s Brayton Point power plant in Somerset, Massachusetts. Facilities for coal grinding, catalyst addition, and gasification in a 100 foot reactor were available to provide model confirmation under commercial conditions. GreatPoint also conducted tests at a pilot plant at the Energy and Environmental Research Center in Grand Forks, ND to support latter efforts torwards commercial design.
GreatPoint Energy had announced $1.25 billion partnership with industrial conglomerate China Wanxiang Holding to build a large scale plant to produce 0.5% of China’s projected energy needs. The first phase had been planned to begin operation in 2015 with an initial natural gas production of 30 billion cubic feet.1 However, the partnership was ultimately not able to obtain Chinese government support for the project.”…
Didn’t we execute the Rosenbergs for giving nuclear secrets to Russia???
Back when our cars burned ethyl and
Ethel fried for her minor part in nuclear espionage.
Boom!
Been going on for a long time. Remmeber when Obama had Imelt give China GE’s avionics software and aircraft turbine technology?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/ge-all-in-on-aviation-deal-with-china/2011/07/17/gIQAgPmTXJ_story.html
Before retiring I was part of a team developing and introducing new software technologies. One early customer base was automotive factory automation. We also trained customer engineers how to use it. They built complex robotics and automation/control software for car assembly plants.
We’d usually go out for dinner after the training session. One evening after a few beers, one team of German engineers got a bit tense when talking about an assembly plant their company was building in China. They’d returned about a year after the startup to find that the Chinese engineers had already duplicated and modified everything and were building in a plant for their own car down the road.. Back in Germany, their complaints to management were dismissed.
Highly competitive tech companies put great pressure on developers to protect such intellectual property, and we take great pride in advanced technology development so this stuck in their craw. So, I asked them why their execs let this happen. They got quiet, but one told us that, unless their executives look the other way, they will be denied access to emerging markets and new capital.
We changed the subject.
Never forget that in the 1990s Bill Clinton gave the Chinese the technology to make their ICBMs accurate.
Loral made the guidance systems, and they were quite classified. But Bill just sent them the blueprints and a couple working systems, and did it for something like $3.5 million in campaign contributions.
Once again, Sundance, thank you for the effort put into this research. Getting down into the weeds of each embezzlement and betrayal is critical to the national understanding of how corruption works, spreads, and weakens everything it touches.
It is playing out everywhere. Now, we are giving the communists our IP and technology, then we pay them to build the manufacturing plants here in the US.
North Carolina’s China-owned governor Cooper is so proud about giving a communist carmaker 1.2 billion of the 2 billion dollars needed to start up an electric car/battery plant here.
America car companies cannot build these things?? America is being hollowed out and sold out.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/30/vietnams-vinfast-to-build-2-billion-electric-vehicle-factory-in-north-carolina.html
A bit more related to communist Vinfast EVs to see the depth of how the West has sold out.
Vinfast was part of a Vietnamese conglomerate that was born in Ukraine
Vinfast got is car platform from BMW
“The company has R&D and production facilities in Vietnam, yet most of the technology used for the cars VinFast plans to produce were found elsewhere. The company partnered with Siemens, Bosch, Magna International, Pininfarina, and BMW”
Vinfact got is manufacturing, dealer network and testing grounds from GM.
“Earlier this year, VinFast took over a Chevrolet dealer network (they will import and sell Chevrolets in Vietnam) and a Daewoo-GM plant in the city of Hanoi. The company plans to adapt the plant for the production of its own vehicles too.”
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https://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/vinfast-follow-the-birth-of-a-car-company-using-bmw-tech-and-italian-design-from-pininfarina-ar182463.html
Vinfast Acquires General Motors Lang Lang Proving Grounds In Australia
https://gmauthority.com/blog/2020/09/vinfast-acquires-general-motors-lang-lang-proving-grounds-in-australia/
This does not happen per chance. We are in the final stages of a long game to bring America to her knees.
Hopefully, and prayerfully on this Lord’s day, Christians will be crying out to God for His mercy on us and our country.
If “their” game is to bring us to our knees, only the Sovereign of all creation can and will make that happen.
God causes nations to rise and fall, even though man thinks he has something to do with God’s choice.
God causes leaders to rise and fall, even though man thinks he has something to do with God’s choice.
God calls His children, who are called by His name, to humble themselves and pray, to seek His face and turn from their wicked ways.
God calls Christians to humble themselves.
God calls Christians to pray.
God calls Christians to seek Him with all their heart, soul and mind, and to not just know His Word, but to do what it says.
God calls Christians — God calls us, not the depraved and immoral — to turn from their/our wicked ways.
Until Christians get it right, God will withhold His hand of protection from us and our country (Romans 1).
And the good news is, if we do the things God calls us to do, then. . .
He will hear from Heaven
He will forgive our sins
and
He will heal our land.
Blessed Sunday, Raven. How is your friend Anne?
Blessed Sunday to you CountryClassVulgarian.
Dear Anne died in the hospital on Sunday morning, July 3rd. She had been in the hospital for almost 8 months, and her time there was on and off, with her family absolutely, positively not following her medical desires. She did not have a written medical directive, but I think her husband and adult children would not have followed it even if she had one. The entire situation was horrific, and sad to the core. So, so sad it breaks my heart. Breaks my heart thinking how she said she never ever wanted to go to the hospital if she got covid, and yet, her family took her to the hospital. Breaks my heart thinking how she wanted ivermectin and the hospital told her no. Breaks my heart on many levels and for many reasons, all of which were due to the things Anne wanted and did not get, or did not want and they forced on her. Most of all it breaks my heart to think of how Anne must have felt night after night in a hospital that did not allow visitors other than her husband and adult children — who were not advocates AT ALL. In the dark, knowing the evil that was being done in hospitals long before she was a prisoner there, I cannot imagine the strength Anne must have had — in the Lord mostly — to not lose her mind.
It took me about a week after Anne’s death to post the information here at the Treehouse. I’m sorry you missed it, CCV.
Anne was vivacious and a warrior who did not back down. She stood and spoke openly at meetings where insanity was being pushed, and was battered and bruised by the socialists around us for her stands. But she was definitely not stopping, no matter what they said. I can only imagine how they laughed when they heard she had covid, heard she was in the hospital, and, sick as it may sound, laughed when they learned she died. That is how totally demented the socialists around here are.
Her family didn’t have a funeral for Anne, nor did they have a memorial. They said it was Anne’s wish to not have anything. Her friends who knew and loved her knew that was a lie. Her family thought Anne was wrong with not wearing masks, not taking the jab, etc., so they thought all her friends were wrong, too, and they did not want us around her while she was in the hospital, and they didn’t want us around them after Anne died. So we held a memorial service for Anne, but the family went on social media and blasted us saying we were going against Anne’s wishes, so only the 4 closest friends showed up.
Funny how they were so concerned about Anne’s apparent wishes after she died, but did not care about her wishes when they locked her in the hospital.
A few days before Anne died she was able to talk to one friend, and through her tracheotomy said how happy she was to finally be going home on Saturday. She said the Lord had taken her through a great trial, one she did not fight, one she was happy was coming to an end. But before Saturday came Anne got sick, and on Friday she was throwing up, which plugged up and got into her trach and her lungs. Friday was a bad, ugly day for Anne.
Saturday Anne slept peacefully all day, and on Sunday morning she died. I believe the hospital put her in a coma on Saturday, and the meds killed her on Sunday. Do I know that for sure? Absolutely not. But she had been to the point of death at least a couple times from November 8th, 2021 until July 3rd, 2022, so who knows what decisions were made about her “quality of life.”
I still have not cried over the loss of this amazing woman. My eyes well-up with tears and my throat gets tight, but no tears. I think I have been too mad, hurt, sickened by all that’s happened that I haven’t even started processing it all yet.
So thank you, again, for asking about Anne many times, and remembering her, not only in your prayers, but just for remembering her.
Oh Raven. I kept looking for updates and I missed it. My mother-in-law-died on July 2nd. I was off the Treehouse dealing with that. It was very sudden, and I blame her vaxxed/boosted status.
I am glad you saw my post and I am so sorry. My heart breaks with you. I have no words. May God grant you and the friends who knew and loved Anne peace and comfort. May He continue to wrap you in His love.
Thank you so much for telling Anne’s story. Thanks for sharing her with us.
Dear CountryClassVulgarian,
Thank you for your kind words concerning Anne, a woman of great character.
I am so sorry you lost your mother-in-law on July 2nd, and sorry, too, that it was a sudden death. Unexpected. What did she die of? How are you doing after suffering her loss? How is your husband doing? I pray the Lord surrounds all who knew and loved your mother-in-law with His peace and comfort while you go through this valley of grief. I pray that for you, CCV, knowing you were there to help, and knowing she was thrust into eternity via a poison injection. What a horrendous, sorrowful set of circumstances, and indeed, our hearts do break together — for people who were murdered before our eyes.
Peace to you, my sister in Christ, tonight and throughout all eternity.
A “feature” of our government in action. Right, Sundance?
Traitors –
The spiralling environmental cost of our lithium battery addiction
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lithium-batteries-environment-impact
The Environmental Impact of Lithium Batteries
https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/the-environmental-impact-of-lithium-batteries/
Lithium Batteries’ Dirty Secret: Manufacturing Them Leaves Massive Carbon Footprint
Once in operation, electric cars certainly reduce your carbon footprint, but making the lithium-ion batteries could emit 74% more CO2 than for conventional cars.
https://www.industryweek.com/technology-and-iiot/article/22026518/lithium-batteries-dirty-secret-manufacturing-them-leaves-massive-carbon-footprint
Could this technology ultimately replace the technology used for cell batteries? Taiwan would be out of business.
Taiwan predominantly makes the chips that are powered by a smaller Lithium battery—at least for now.
Yes, but I was thinking that this new type battery might eventually be somehow used in the cell phones? I don’t know how that would be done, just a thought..
No, this isn’t appropriate for small devices, literally requires tanks and pumps, this is industrial scale stuff.
ok. Thanks. Darn…I really think cell batteries need to be greatly improved.
Everyday is more infuriating.
But it’s not rage.
It’s determination.
These people must be defeated.
Somehow, “defeated” does not do justice to what needs to happen.
Of course they used the date 2017 to try and lay the blame at the feet of the Trump administration when it of course happened under anti-America Obama.
Remember: China not Russia is our biggest espionage threat.
Mr Yang stole the battery tech, it’s that simple. The culture of China is significantly different than the West. In China if you are in a position to take advantage, including stealing, and you do not it is a sign of your weakness. The Chinese that settle in America have the same value system still – don’t trust them, they will quietly steal you blind.
Yang did not steal it. It was given to him. His loyalty was absolute from day one.
We have to face the ugly reality of how deep this runs. Manufacturing and IP is all being handed to China via the globalists who control capital. A US company would never have had have been allowed to control and manufacture this IP.
First, consider that the Dept of Energy did not somehow overlook that it was putting a Chinese communist on such a a crucial US research project.
Globalists like Blackrock and other minions who control markets and have the funds to lend for such a startup, simply said something to Yang’s gang like: “No capital for this unless the startup is controlled by China”.
“Yang did not steal it. “
…Hmm…
“The Dept of Energy license given to Gary Yang was unlawfully sublicensed to the Chinese.”
That kinda looks like theft to me?
You presume our government was not in on the deal and you presume they would have done something to stop had they known.
I presume exactly the opposite – as borne out by the deep state.
How did Peking University have a humanized transgenic mouse in 2007?
$500 per kilowatt hour? That’s a tad more than the $ 0.12 per kilowatt hour that I am paying for my good ol’ coal fired electricity that I am paying now. As I see it, this is just still a battery, and still requires another source to charge it up
In the contest of EV batteries they are talking about the cost of the battery measrued in KwHr, not energy productioncost.
e.g. if their goal is to reach $60/KwHr battery cost, then a battery that could store 100 KwHr of energy would cost $6000.
I was just going by the link in the article that Sundance provided. It said a 5 KW battery would cost 10-20K and using a wind/solar source to keep it charged would generate electricity at a rate of $500 kw/hour, and a battery is still just storage unit. They produce nothing.
I came across this and thought it was interesting. It’s a timeline taken from a series of posts on Gary Yang’s LinkedIn profile.
Vanadium Flow Battery – VFB – Gary Yang – DOE Long Duration Energy Storage Workshop
https://www.readkong.com/page/vanadium-flow-battery-vfb-gary-yang-doe-long-duration-2397932
Bet Hunter is/was involved…….
Remember, batteries just store electricity. It still has to be generated. The 30 year life won’t help if we can’t generate enough electricity.
Seneca Global Advising is reported as a paid lobbyist for GreatPoint Energy in 2008.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/GreatPoint_Energy
GreatPoint is the client in an email found at SD’s linked Daily Mail report about Joe’s WH meeting with Wanxiang.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11084655/VP-Joe-Biden-met-two-Chinese-energy-execs-West-Wing.html
GreatPoint constructed a demonstration of the USDOE funded coal gasification technology on the site of Dominion Energy in Massachusetts in 2008, that was operational in 2009.
William Barr was elected to the board of Dominion Energy in Dec. 2009.
What does William Barr know about Seneca Global Advisors’ lobbying activity on behalf of GreatPoint while he sat on the board of Dominion Energy?
Elon Musk would have been all over this.
Awesome reporting. When the whole story ties into Biden, this will be Pulitzer worthy…
Something to ponder… why use NPR to put out a story like this? They dont normally do a lot of investigative reporting… Seemed out of left field when I read it yesterday.
It is a sure thing that there is an EXPORT License at the State Department.
Sundance does a great job laying out the story but leaves out this obvious step. If the DOE fostered the development of the Technology, it is a sure thing they knew every single step Mr. Yang was taking as did the Executive Branch of the US Government, which was under the regime of Comrade Obama and Commissar Biden. If for no other reason than to cover their butts with legal paper work … there was an Export License put in place for: Meetings, Tech Discussions, Tech Transfer and Manufacturing Know How Transfer. The License and steps described by Sundance are straight out of the US State Department Licensing process and application content.
In a related story … Saint Elon Musk did the exact same thing during the exact same time period.
The founders and owners of Solindra did the exact same thing during the exact same time period.
Etc. Etc. Etc. …..
The DOE was shipping future energy technology and research off shore as fast as the licenses were signed and the Capital (Bail-Out Money and TARP) was hitting Hong Kong through US Banks and DOE. At the time and even to this day, Hong Kong enjoys a special status allowing East meets West Finance and Technology Exchanges.
I have applied for and had approved as well as denied Export Licenses for Meetings, Information for Release at Expos, Tech Transfers, manufacturing, et al.
The “get’s interesting part” and “strange happenstances” is the EXPORT Licenses that Mr. Yang WAS GRANTED, which allowed him to operate in the OPEN.
I suspect a threat kept from the public eye by President Trump in his Battles with China Inc. was that he had some control over the Export Licenses held by the US State Department.
That threat would hurt not only China Inc . but also directly impact the US Companies holding those licenses. The limit being that each license would be one time use FINANCIAL WMD.
Remember how so many US financial institutions and commercial businesses went totally nuts when President Trump threatened to pull the US out of the Special Status Agreement dealing with Hong Kong.
It is the one lever still held even by the US Puppet Masters (NOT Team JoeBama) as they control the DoJ, who would be the prosecutors for export violations. The lever has to be used carefully as key current members of Team JoeBama and Industry Leaders go down the toilet if this lever is used.
The history of China is a three thousand year story of pirates and chicken thieves.
Except in this case the US Government under the Obama Regime opened the door to the chicken coop plus pointed out the choice chickens and stopped the boats dead in the water for the Pirates to catch…while issuing licenses to make the thievery legal.
My Spidey senses say The Big Guy got his 10% of these transactions
Expand the meaning of “The Guy” from meaning just then VP Commissar Biden.
The “Big Guy” is actually a category of payments and kick backs to select US Government employees, depending upon the topic.
It is “Big Guy” pay-offs as in US Politicians visiting Kiev to receive their “Big Guy Payments” for their cameo appearances beside Zelensky.
All your government, your technology, and your petroleum reserve are berong to us, yankee.
This Imre Gyuk appears to be a career bureaucrat who operates under the radar for decades with control of hundreds of millions of government dollars to dole out as he sees fit. Another Anthony Fauci situation it appears. Couldn’t find much biographical info on him past Fordham University. What’s his story, political connections,etc?
So, who is Imre Gyuk and how did he become so powerful? Kind of reminds me of Fauci – the people in charge of dispensing the grant money (OUR taxpayer dollars) have become very rich and powerful, haven’t they? Favoritism, cronyism, and partnerships that line pockets and those of their friends.
Very interesting this article. I’ve always known there are technologies, inventions and medical discoveries hidden from the general populace. If you look at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, it was designed and constructed quickly; planning began in the early 1890’s, permits given 1892 and the fair in 1893? It featured 690 acres with 200 new buildings and cost 1.5 million which was paid off (no long term debt and not taxpayer funded). Two million visitors.
If you aren’t familiar with it, check out the architecture and features and conveniences and tell me why we haven’t made any great progress since then? Electric cars, bicycles and scooters were available back then, life sized reproductions of Christopher Columbus, and others, moving walkways, a Ferris Wheel, “moving pictures”.
If you look at the pictures, read about the participants (Westinghouse, Nikola Tesla are interesting) and just ask yourself what has happened to our research, development and manufacture since then?
Money and power – the tools of ultimate corruption and we the people whose wealth has been taken from have not benefited. We have been bought and sold.
Very interesting indeed, Sundance. Thank you!
The last major building from that World’s Fair still standing is the former Palace of Fine Arts.
The building is now the Museum of Science and Industry.
If I had a time machine, the Chicago World’s Fair is one of the events I would love to see in person.
Why would NPR report this story at all given they are as deep state propaganda as it gets?
Why would they say FedGov have it to China fair and square? What counter narrative are they trying to pre-seed in order to successfully discredit eminent truth tellers?
Why is NPR so hot on emphasizing dates?
Is Dr. Yang in Hunter Biden’s emails on the “laptop from hell?” Dr. Gyuk?
vanadium is rare, expensive, and cumbersome to mine. vanadium batteries have many problems, especially cost and short life span.
no one with any financial sense would invest in an expensive, unsuccessful technology
yang was probably not prosecuted because the technology is unworkable
one example was a 1GW power plant needing billions of dollars of vanadium to sustain power in a blackout for several days.
Part of this is incorrect, the batteries have an exceedingly long lifespan, which is one of features, making it somewhat beneficial to transient power sources like wind and solar
if you can show a link to a functioning unit with long life, I’d love to see it. I’ve heard of reports that all of the test units failed that longevity test. They were designed to last a long time, like 20 to 30 years, but I don’t think there is any unit that has actually succeeded yet
Vanadium isn’t really all that rare…many crude oils contain a fairly high content of it…the residuals of refined crude oil, petroleum coke and carbin black, contain high percentages of it and it is recoverable although I do not know the efficiency of the recovery process…just sayin’….. Info is easy to find, just search “vanadium recovery from crude oil” and start reading…
the reason I said it is rare, is also because of what you said, “it is recoverable although I do not know the efficiency of the recovery process”.
It is expensive because of the recovery process.
You are right that it occurs naturally in many places, it just isn’t worth it financially. That is why it is so rare in large enough quantities to do any good
My little theory… Biden-James& Hunter…Crooks playing chess with China but with our American tax money. INSIDE MONEY 10% for the big guy..remember
“Under Biden alone, the Left has tried to redefine woman, fetus, domestic terrorist, insurrection, voter suppression, illegal alien, anti-police, and now recession. What a strategy! When you lose an argument, just change the DICTIONARY!”
Next up, Diplomatic Immunity
It wouldn’t be the FIRST time American companies or investors passed on new technology! Anyone remember Kodak’s blunder with digital photography? Anyone remember Xerox not understanding what they had with Windows? And aren’t American CEOs notorious for putting off longer term R&D, because it’ll make their quarterly profits look bad?
Since Imre Gyuk held a Director level job in the US DoE, I’m not so sure that it’s wrong to say that the US government GAVE the technology to China. From Sundance’s very interesting article, especially regarding the 2018 meeting, it’s hard to ecape the conclusion that Gyuk KNEW ABOUT AND AT LEAST ACQUIESCED TO Yang’s deals with China and Chinese companies. Further, Gyuk failed to use the resources at his disposal to achieve US manufacturing of the battery technology.
I’m most curious to read the next installment.
I can’t believe this crap. In fact, I did a quick Newspapers.com search and we, the DOE that is, were funding idiiotic electricity storage faclilies like this one. https://www.newspapers.com/image/667865368/
We, the DOE that is, invested $5million to store ALL OF 250 KILOWATTS!! Not Kilowatt HOURS mind you, but Kilowatts!
And the article says that’s enough to power 50-100 homes…but they don’t say for how long. Oh, this was in 2014 by the way, the same time Yang was unable to get funding. It’s all a flippin’ scam.
wait a second! Then in 2017 UniEnergy Tech installed an 8 Megawatt hour battery in Everett, WA. But again, Gary Yang couldn’t find funding? Oh and by this time we, the DOE that is, were funding PNNL which was using its on version of Vanadium technology.
Tell me again there is not already a one-world government???
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107122836/unienergy-tech/
An article that seems like on thing but it is another. Where did all the workers go they ask? They do not feel well and will wait to feel better before looking for a job. They will not feel better ever again. Extinction level event/excess death: The news is blind. The only story that should be in the news is that the synthetic spike protein in the jab is somehow different than the so called naturally occurring spike protein. The body should purge the spike protein in 2 weeks but that is not happening. The synthetic spike protein has been taken up into the human cell mitosis and replicated meaning each cell replaced by the body is attacked by the immune system and eliminated. (Autoimmune). The excess death in the insurance business is the trumpet sounding. The work force feels lousy and dose not look for work and that does not show in the employment numbers. It is all about the jab and it is not being reported, it will be.
Top 4 producers of vanadium: China, Brazil, South Africa, Russia.
Know any groups that contain those 4 countries?
You are viewing the template for the destruction of the American Manufacturing/value added/tax base.
Of all the money that’s been conjured out of thin air, a Chinese-born, ostensible American citizen, claims he can’t find funding in the USA. Hogwash.
And American engineers and scientists made the original battery (batteries) in the USA, yet America doesn’t have the talent nor ability to scale it. Hogwash.
This is exactly how the U.S. is now a rump of what it once was. A million Trojan Horses from China infiltrated throughout the USA and millions of native born Americans that hate the country they were born in.
Now….wouldn’t those batteries be a lot of help for Chinese submarines?
Damnatio memoriae
Can’t come soon enough for the Bidet clan.
Yang didn’t look very far for investors. A business unit of GE started a battery manufacturing business in Schenectady NY to build industrial size batteries for storage, as well as smaller sizes, for hybrid locomotives and buses in 2012. This battery technology may have saved the manufacturing business.
https://www.ge.com/news/press-releases/ge-battery-plant-receives-extra-jolt
https://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-local/article/GE-proclaims-success-despite-battery-plant-6748205.php
https://www.ge.com/news/reports/leading-charge-battery-storage-sweeps-world-ge-finding-place-sun
What if China could get the U.S. to cut off the vanadium production? It seems slag from burning coal, which is a by product from coal burning plants, contains vanadium. But wait a minute, what’s in it for China. Products produced with vanadium, such as steel and batteries. The Chinese government has been undercutting our steel production for decades with a cheap low quality grade steel, and with vanadium we could compete in the global battery market.
Talk is cheap – what proof is there
A review on the metallurgical recycling of vanadium from slags: towards a sustainable vanadium production
The critical applications of vanadium in metallurgical field and the growth in commercialization of vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFB) have led to the increased demand of vanadium. It is thus important to ensure the sustainability of vanadium production. Vanadium bearing slags, the solid byproducts in iron- and steel-making plants, are the principal source of vanadium production, accounting for more than 69% of total vanadium in terms ofthe raw material types. Academic researches and engineering investigations have been addressed to develop such metallurgical processes for treating the vanadium bearing slags. This article presents a comprehensive review on the metallurgical treatments of vanadium bearing slags. The composition and phase/mineralogical characterization of vanadium bearing slags from various sources are given. Literature review shows that the vanadium bearing slags have been traditionally treated through the roasting-assisted leaching with the recent efforts of integrating the state-of-the arts technologies in extractive metallurgy and developing direct leaching methodologies. Some promising methods are worth discussing and quite encouraging, and expected to be the future focuses of this area. Discussion also highlights the separation of vanadium from silica, phosphorus and chromium as the major interfering elements/metal in the leach solutions of vanadium slags. Recommendation is made for taking up future works in order to develop a sustainable metallurgical process for vanadium bearing slag.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2238785421001915
BTW, I just used this article in a video I did about this insanity. I also went to the record book, ala Newspapers.com to look up these guys who Sundance refers to. Such a flippin’ scam. And as Sundance has said, we expected Trump, by himself, to win against these guys???
I like how you dissect each reference in Sundance’s article. And I loved your ending statements!
A very curious case indeed. Selling out America is part of the design, isn’t it?
What will happen to the world when American know how is finally dead?
WE invented everything worthy and gave it to the world. We even brought forth the modern age of oil…electricity, natural gas, gasoline, nuclear energy , computers, cell phones, and the digital age. EVERYTHING originated from the free minds of a free market. Not Europe. Not Russia. Not India. Not Africa. US.
May God smite them all and save his blessed children.
If Americans have stopped there, they would be heroes to the world for the next ten generations; but the American elite started unnecessary wars, and that too non-stop. They meddled in the affairs of countries far away from their shores and countries which never posed any threat to Americans. They became so greedy for profits they exported the jobs to China, without thinking about the future of American workers. And now they find that America is bankrupt.
Sorry, but many importante and pivotal things have been invented in Europe and elsewhwere.
Chauvinism only works when it’s true.
I think you are right.
Our government giving this technology to China was intentional and Mr. Yang was mere the conduit.
Yang was a ChiCom. He’s no victim. Another Chinese national who pretends to emigrate and pledge allegiance until he can abscond back to the CCP with our shit. Burn him.
Remember who was occupying the WH too!
The Soros puppet, Obama.
Just like Bill Clinton “gave” the Chinese our missile launch technology.