Vanadium Redox Batteries are the solution to what many consider the 'Achilles Heel' of renewable energy - mass energy storage. Here's some facts on the VRB for your readers:

Benefits of Vanadium Redox Batteries (VRB’s):
* > 20-year battery life
* Only battery that rapidly charges and discharges with little effect on battery life
* No limit on size
* >10,000 cycles per battery
* No chemical reaction so batteries do not degrade or get "consumed" over time
* Cheapest solution to mass energy storage
* High volumes of vanadium required (we plan to supply it in the US.)

Existing VRB Mass Storage Facilities :

* 1.5 MW UPS system in a semiconductor fabrication plant in Japan (Using 75 tons of V205 solution worth approximately $1M)

* 275 kW output balancer in use on a wind power project in the Tomari Wind Hills of Hokkaido

* 200 kW, 800 kWh (2.9 GJ) output leveler in use at the Huxley Hill Wind Farm on King Island, Tasmania

* 250 kW, 2 MWh (7.2 GJ) load leveler in use at Castle Valley, Utah (Using 112 tons of V2O5 solution, worth approximately $1.5M)

* Two 5-kW units installed at Safaricom GSM site in Katangi and Njabini, Winafrique Technologies, Kenya

* Two 5-kW units installed in St. Petersburg, FL, under the auspices of USF's Power Center for Utility Explorations

Read all about VRB's and the vanadium-lithium batteries coming out for electric cars here: http://www.twitter.com/AVCVanadium news feed.

American Vanadium Corp. (AVC on TSX) is planning to open America's only vanadium mine by 2013.

The US currently imports almost all of it's vanadium from China, Russia and South Africa. Given that China has recently restricted exports of vanadium, we feel that an American supply of battery grade vanadium is critical to US industry.

Feel free to contact me directly if any questions or comments regarding our mine or vanadium batteries.

Sincerely,

Michael Hyslop
Director of Corporate Development
American Vanadium Corp.

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