Posted on 11/24/2014 7:37:55 AM PST by SeekAndFind
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - An Israeli company says it has developed technology that can charge a mobile phone in a few seconds and an electric car in minutes, advances that could transform two of the world's most dynamic consumer industries.
Using nano-technology to synthesize artificial molecules, Tel Aviv-based StoreDot says it has developed a battery that can store a much higher charge more quickly, in effect acting like a super-dense sponge to soak up power and retain it.
While the prototype is currently far too bulky for a mobile phone, the company believes it will be ready by 2016 to market a slim battery that can absorb and deliver a day's power for a smartphone in just 30 seconds.
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Now, if they could just do that with a car sized battery. Or even a laptop.
Those Jews. Always coming up with something useful, making the world a better place.
What’s up with that?
Oh yeah, they are blessed.
I love miracle battery stories because they work so well to provide balance for the slow-news-day semiannual “disaster” stories such as “the coffee crop is failing”, “the chocolate crop is failing”, “the food crops will fail because all the bees are dying”, “killer sunspots will destroy the world as we know it”, and “killer computer viruses will destroy the world as we know it”.
All “miracle battery” stories follow the same trajectory: 1.) miracle lab results widely publicized in the popular press, 2.) foundation of a new company (using lots of other people’s money) to make the miracle batteries, 3.) announcements for a couple of years that “we’re working out manufacturing issues”, and then 4.) either a fade away into oblivion for small companies, or a spectacular public bankruptcy (and the dregs purchased by the Chinese) for the big companies funded with hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer debt.
Nanotechnology. That’s the future. Amazing things will happen when we’re able to build right down to the molecular level.
Sounds a lot like Rossi's "Cold Fusion" LENR bull stuff.
The road to hell is paved with charge depleted batteries.....
What? The coffee crop is failing?
Guess I better go out and stock up. See y’all later.
From the people who brought us drip-irrigation. As one Arab complained when he heard the news of that invention, "You let one Jew in and pretty soon the whole desert looks like a garden."
Still waiting for some new invention from the Islamic world that would advance something more than falcon or camel breeding.
Let’s see. What technological developments have come from Israel’s neighbors? ... ... ... ...
NONE! They’re too busy building tunnels to kill Jews, learning how to make bomb vests, and sharpening their machetes.
Open up charging kiosks in locations where there used to be pay-phones. Shopping malls, airports, city street corners, etc.
They will look like slender vending machines. Insert credit card and you get thirty seconds of charging time for say $2.00 a pop. People will be lining up to get a quick charge - especially gum-snapping teenagers.
For just one charging port, you will be getting potentially $4/minute of revenue - or $240/hr during peak times. Let's say conservatively that you gross $1,000/day per charging station. And you have a thousand stations out there. You can do the math from there.
Hmmm. To charge an electric car in a few minutes, how many hundreds of amps will be required to do that?
Muslims invented everything first. Jews must have stolen this technology from the peaceful citizens of Gaza. /s
“What technological developments have come from Israel’s neighbors?”
They have done a great job perfecting the suicide vest and the IED. They have led the world in the development of these products.
Also, what would the world be like without a good Burka?
Ha, Mr. Smarty Pants?
bttt
The world’s nuclear energy science came from jewish scientists and engineers. It’s not the first time they’ve helped out all the other religions!
The Leaf has a 24 kwh battery.
So, if I remember my numbers correctly, it would take 104 amps to charge it in an hour using 230 volts. 208 amps in 30 minutes. 416 amps in 15, which is about the longest you can call “a few minutes.”
Getting some pretty high level juice going there.
Actually, these theoretical numbers wouldn’t work at all due to efficiency losses in charging. Also likely to be a LOT of heat generated in any charging process that rapid. Which is, of course, where the waste energy is going.
“Using nano-technology to synthesize artificial molecules....”
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Why don’t you Israelis slow down in your technical developments and allow your muzzie neighbors to catch up, just to be fair.
yeah but then Theodore Hall ruined it by giving nuclear secrets to the Russians because “I decided to give atomic secrets to the Russians because it seemed to me that it was important that there should be no monopoly” . My jewish friends have the biggest hearts but I don’t get the fatal attraction to liberal policies. Nor do I understand why Asians vote democrat. two mysteries of the world.
I love miracle battery stories
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I wish I had a dollar for every one I’ve read and never came true.
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