BEST LINK SO FAR...THIS IS A REPOST...I THINK HOGEY POSTED THIS A FEW MONTHS AGO. CAN'T GET A BETTER READ THEN THIS ONE....

https://starwind5.wordpress.com/2016/01/

DON’T GET CAUGHT IN THE TRANSITION TO NEW Li-ion BATTERY TECH… OR WAITING FOR TESLA… Electrovaya is here today…

HYBRID POWER: Meet the WIND 5.0 Enablers: Li-Battery Storage & OP ICE Generation

Of course Smart Control delivering the Proper Hybrid Solution balance of generation types, namely C0-prime Movers Wind 5.0/Solar and Engine Generation (Last resort NG or Diesel) matched to 2X better Li-Battery is the Hi Tech “glue” in Hybrid Power. What is less intuitive about Hybrid Power enabling Wind 5.0 is the impact 2X better price/performance (Electrovaya.com) of Li-on has on the balance of generation. Better batteries means less fuel is required to support “mover of last resort” engine generation, which extends the useful life of the engine generation plant, AND also affects the size and proportion of Wind and Solar Generation, given the nature of the power requirement at the site.

This past year, aside from Tesla cutting battery prices by 50%, the little company that could, Canada’s own Electrovaya, made BATTERY 3.0 really come into play, CREATING A BATTERY CASSETTE with 5X more power density per cubic foot, or meter, which lasts 9000 cycles, is cost competitive, allows 95 to 98% draw down with little battery capacity loss and is really safe (hammer a nail through it and still won’t explode). Electrovaya did it with a slick little acquisition of Evonik’s Litarion in Germany, to beat Tesla to the title of first Giga Battery factory in 2015. Nice. No wait, you can order the Electrovaya-Litarion modules or complete systems solutions today in 2016.

Electrovaya’s Litarion enabled Battery Cassette is a 10-25 year bankable solution. If it’s good enough for Mercedes Smart EV, all 20,000 of them operating since 2013, re-charging daily (quick and deep), without a single failure, then that is good enough for you and I, and anyone interested in Off-Grid Self Sufficiency. Install and forget. Best of all , any sane banker will finance your off-grid project, whether you are connected to the public grid or not. The number just work.

So what, you say? Well, sometimes , and not very often, advancements in one branch of Science just seem to fit like lego blocks and we take a 2X leap forward in computing (Moore’s Law), and if we are luck we cookie cut and it repeats every every 18-24 months (time is running out on current CPU tech. In Battery 3.0’s case Electrovaya-Litarion has jumped forward 5X with their “lego like” technology integration.

Better yet, the Electrovaya-Litarion convergence of two technologies: a stable ceramic membrane joined together with; a dry safe green production process, has really delivered 2X better ROI value as Battery 3.0 and is the Energy Storage Holy Grail delivered, right now in 2016.