Battery Life Breakthrough Could Increase Li-Ion Capacity by 1000%

ZoomLife ^ | 11/25/08 | Sebastian Schepis

[DiogenesLaertius]

I have only one question: why was this discovered in Korea and not the United States?

[Red Steel]

Getting up there with the Star Trek power packs.

[Parley Baer]

Interesting especially if the real world application results are the same as in the laboratory.

[dr_who]

Bloody nanotechnology!

[redangus]

Because we don’t graduate engineers anymore. American students all want to be famous or wealthy or both and they want it now. Therefore they major in performing arts, sports or finance. Those pesky math and science course make their little brains hurt. This is another reason why we are slowly becoming a second class country.

[lacrew]

How come the Koreans discovered this first......must be stem cell research.

[Jotmo]

This is the only way electric cars will be economically viable.

It would be great if true, but we'll see how it works in real world applications and scaled up to electric car battery sizes.

[When do we get liberated?]

Thats not true,we graduate lots of engineers. Of course most of them are Indian or Korean....

[editor-surveyor]

Didn’t this come up about 3 or 4 years ago, and the consensus was that the battery would be too unstable, and might explode?

[redangus]

Thank you for making my point.

[jz638]

You’re getting more miles for less money, with no fossil fuel use - especially if your electrity comes from a renewable source.

yup, no fossil fuels used in warming that argon stuff up to 900 degrees celsius to make the fancy batteries, none used in producing solar cells and windmills for charging them, none used in extruding the plastic body panels, etc...

[B4Ranch]

ping

[Michigan Bowhunter]

Maybe I should hold off on buying my new Milwaukee Hammer Drill......hold out for a new battery !!!!

[grey_whiskers]

Like, *PING*, dudes.

[grey_whiskers]

Like, *PING*, dudes.

[JoJo Gunn]

yup, no fossil fuels used in warming that argon stuff up to 900 degrees celsius to make the fancy batteries, none used in producing solar cells and windmills for charging them, none used in extruding the plastic body panels, etc...

Or for transporting the material(s) to the manufacturer and then to the distributor or construction site.

I've had that very same argument with leftards who shouted no blood for oil yet won't address giving up their computers and their site servers, (nor their Playstations), powered by big oil.

[JoJo Gunn]

ping

[The Cajun]

Didn’t this come up about 3 or 4 years ago, and the consensus was that the battery would be too unstable, and might explode?

Think that was the carbon nanotube based battery where it could be charged up very quickly, but could discharge just as quickly due to an internal short making a considerable boom even with a small battery.

[Paul R.]

Good point. That “if” your electrity comes from a renewable source is a pretty big IF too. Electric cars would be a major new demand on the electric grid - even if all new cars were electric in 10 years, there is no way we’d have the added electric generation capacity in 10 years, all from renewable sources, to supply the demand of the chargers. Heck, it’ll take 10 years just to get all the environmental impact studies done, much less ok’d.

Not only that, Obama has said he will strongly push policies that would cause electric rates to go through the roof under his “leadership”. So much for saving money on the “fuel”.

I also wonder how far the batteries will be into production before some nasty new problem is found. Don’t get me wrong, I use NiMh and Li-ion batteries quite a bit, but the track record with rechargeables seems to be getting worse, the more exotic they get.