Posted on 04/20/2016 2:50:04 PM PDT by Red Badger
And twice as less heavy!
Thanks Red Badger.
Maybe this has application with solar panels, which degrade and fail at a disheartening rate given the expense and length of time required for them pay out.
I am wondering if some version of this technology could be used in high radiation environments. If it could, it would be useful for satellites by protecting them against solar flares. Maybe even robots to service and repair the inside of a nuke power plant.
What goes on with this stuff. I read maybe three years ago that someone had a created a cell phone charger than could charge your phone in SECONDS!!
But it still takes an hour.
Gas batteries will also be a huge next step as it will make batteries a lot lighter. power to weight would be tremendous and they will charge a lot faster too.
Fun to ponder what unimaginable technologies and breakthroughs lie in the centuries ahead. We might be looked upon as we look at cave dwellers.
exciting stuff....but where will the charging power come from, surely not wind generators or solar????
All well and good with the promising vastly increased charge cycle lifespan.
As to the fragility solution, did I miss field testing in trucks and such?
How long does it take to charge per KWH?
Paging Elon Musk, you might actually be able to build a car that can really go places.
Charging is ok but what is the load rate and the storage life? Those are more importany
That’s what I was thinking. Have they made a charger for it yet?
I’m in the process of inventing a ‘perpetual motion gas powered battery’
The concept it that you fill the battery up with gasoline, creates runs an electricity producing output, which inturn turns the excess electricity into steam through a process of solid oxide electrolyser cells (http://www.cnet.com/news/miracle-tech-turns-water-into-fuel/), which gets funneled back into the battery through a process of electricity generation run by steam
I’ve gotta work out a few bugs, but stay tuned for the world’s first perpetual motion machine/perpetual energy production device to finally be a reality
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Storage life is 40 minutes- unfortunately there is a massive leech they can’t track down
Not much of a battery then. Won’t provide much under load
But now if you cover them with manganese oxide and this gel then maybe you can't line up so many in the same space.
How big will the battery now be? Will it fill the entire trunk if you want to go a reasonable distance before recharge?
I have a lithium ion chainsaw. Needs electricity to charge it now, and the charge doesn’t last long.
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