The U.S. made a breakthrough battery discovery–then gave the tech to China

Gary Yang has published over 200 research articles that have been cited over 18,000 times and has over 50 US and foreign patents granted or in pending.

Interesting. The article reads to me like a corporate and political public relations campaign for the license by Forever Energy. Though, the license does seem to be getting transferred around internationally. I read that UniEnergy Technologies declared bankruptcy in October 2021.

I wish the USA had more transparent intellectual property laws and publicly available licensing for government funded research, something more similar to FOSS communities.

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2021/10/27/the-week... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniEnergy_Technologies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_softwar...

> They were building a battery — a vanadium redox flow battery — based on a design created by two dozen U.S. scientists at a government lab. The batteries were about the size of a refrigerator, held enough energy to power a house, and could be used for decades.

Well, it’s an interesting story but there’re so many new “breakthrough battery discoveries” that I don’t think this could be dramatic, I also think that U.S. don’t sell things to China if they think this thing could be even barely useful inside the tech world.

I hope this Chin guy appreciated it.

Gave, or just sold?