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.
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LOL
“Hello computer”
“Ahhh, a keyboard. How quaint”
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.
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...
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