Stimulus Could Kickstart US Battery Industry 369
Al sends along a Technology Review piece that begins "Provisions in the Congressional stimulus bill could help jump-start a new, multibillion-dollar industry in the US for manufacturing advanced batteries for hybrids and electric vehicles and for storing energy from the electrical grid to enable the widespread use of renewable energy. The nearly $790 billion economic stimulus legislation contains tens of billions of dollars in loans, grants, and tax incentives for advanced battery research and manufacturing, as well as incentives for plug-in hybrids and improvements to the electrical grid, which could help create a market for these batteries. Significant advances in battery materials, including the development of new lithium-ion batteries, have been made in the US in the past few years; but advanced battery manufacturing is almost entirely overseas, particularly in Asia."
Irony (Score:5, Funny)
I find this ironic as I got laid off from a battery company. Too late for me I guess...
Advanced Batteries and Electric Vehicles... (Score:1, Funny)
But nobody will be able to afford to buy them when they're ready.
Re:Irony (Score:3, Funny)
mod + funny
Newsflash, paraphrased (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Here we go again... (Score:4, Funny)
It's such a good thing that the government never subsidized research into computer communication networks!
Now check the gauge on your sarcasm detector.
Re:Irony (Score:5, Funny)
Better Headlines (Score:5, Funny)
- Stimulus Could Give Battery Industry A Jolt
- Stimulus Gives Battery Industry a Jump Start
- Stimulus Gives the Battery Industry A Gift That Keeps Going and Going and Going...
- Battery Industry Charged Over Stimulus
Re:Better Headlines (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Better Headlines (Score:1, Funny)
Congressmen get a charge out of pork and earmarks.
NIMH?! (Score:3, Funny)
Oh my God! They were using RATS to fuel these cars?! Now I truly know The Secret of NIMH [bcdb.com]!
Re:You can't have it. Too bad it took (Score:4, Funny)
The "American made" Hondas are actually kit cars whose primary engineering and most labor intensive components are produced in Japan. People that buy Hondas in America are still traitors, no matter how you rationalize it. The Big Three, for all their faults, created the American class, and also provided the manufacturing know how and expertise to win two world wars, and secure freedom for the world. The Japanese, well, were on the other side.