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How lame is lithium ion? Don't get me started
Cnet ^ | August 22nd | Charles Cooper

Posted on 08/29/2008 4:19:32 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing

Now a start-up called ZPower says it's come up with a battery technology breakthrough which it claims will result in 40 percent longer laptop life than lithium-ion on a single charge. The company says it has struck a deal with "one of the major" PC makers to use its silver-zinc batteries in a notebook line slated for 2009. The CEO, Ross Dueber, declined to get more specific than that.

Commercial lithium-ion batteries have been around since 1991, courtesy of Sony and an upgrade would be very welcome.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.cnet.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: batteries; computers; energy; lithiumion

1 posted on 08/29/2008 4:19:34 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
'Scuze but I think Scotty might have something to say about that .... Photobucket
2 posted on 08/29/2008 4:26:23 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("What Our Enemies Couldn't Do To Us Our Liberal Democrat Politicians Will")
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To: SkyDancer

LOL

“Hello computer”

“Ahhh, a keyboard. How quaint”


3 posted on 08/29/2008 4:27:28 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing (I'm an illegal journalist. Just doing the job that the mainstream liberal media no longer want to do)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

A company venture funded by the US Army should have the decency to allow the public in on buying some part of it’s stock. But it appears to be private.


4 posted on 08/29/2008 4:33:01 PM PDT by bvw
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
I hear “big oil” bought up the patent on a uranium ion battery, apparently it has a half life of 4.5 billion years!
5 posted on 08/29/2008 4:55:48 PM PDT by chaos_5
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Meh. 40% gain just isn’t that much...battery technology is still very heavy and has very low energy density.

I’m waiting on the ultra-capacitors (which would also make hybrid systems on cars a reasonable addition instead of a giant compromise).

Or those nifty little fuel cells you inject butane/propane into and then run a laptop for a week or a PDA/phone for a month...


6 posted on 08/29/2008 6:05:02 PM PDT by BobbyT
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