Thursday, in a private dining room within a busy Eugene restaurant a meeting occurred that has the potential to forever alter the course of power generation and electrical storage. Two titans in the electrical engineering and power control fields met for the first time to implement details for a spectacular capacitive storage system that will change everything about how we think about power and distribution.
To say that I listened with rapt attention would be an understatement but additionally what an honor it was to watch these two incredible minds come together, each holding crucial pieces to the puzzle like tiny atoms in their heads and the great cosmic shift in the universe as their respective knowledge merged to form a whole new molecule, a new element, essentially a whole new life form.
It isn’t obvious yet but at 3:00PM, June 18, 2009, the earth changed and it is a miraculous thing.