Herbert, it is always fun to respond to a post like yours. I really do not have such "great credentials" after all, I am known on SI as the "turnip farmer" and indeed, I am a farmer. I dropped out of high school as well. Ya, I forgot, I managed to earn an M.Sc. in Nuclear Physics and a D.Sc. in Solid State Physics. Oh, another bit of credentials, one of my own early patents (3,891,461) dealt with fuel cells (kind of pretty close to batteries), I also did extensive work in electrochromic cells, which are nothing else but batteries operated for display or light modulation in general. Did some work on hydrogen fuel cells with polymer electrolytes (kind of similar, but no cigar, admittedly, to the current new version of VLNC's battery), and the subject of my Doctoral thesis is on peculiar properties of manganese oxide (strange, that this material is coming back as a potentially critical electrode component for VLNC's batteries). Oh yes, I have authored about 40 patents so far in about 15 to 20 different fields.
By the way, now that I have posted my insignificant credentials, may I ask what are yours?
Zeev |
