I ran across this story and read over it twice and wasn’t sure what the hell was going on. This wasn’t a side of the industry that I knew Sony even participated in. Since then, I’ve gone on to do a little bit of research and I’m still confused by it (mostly since the 6 other sites reporting on it all have the same exact copy-paste info). Basically though, this type of energy module is what feeds UPS units (battery backups) as well as servers so when the power dies down, they continue to run until the power is restored. This unit differs from what’s currently out there because most of the currently used devices run on lead-acid and nickel-cadmium batteries. This works well but there is no way of recharging these units and they are not as efficient and Li-Ion cells/batteries. Because of this, these new units will also be much more environmentally friendly.