Mr. President!!! We Must Not Allow An Electrolyte Gel GAP!!!!
Posted on 07/12/2016 6:07:12 PM PDT by Swordmaker
The battery doctoral candidates from 1973 are retiring today...and still trying to make their wonderful breakthroughs work in the market.
Someday soon...
Just a quick read and review .... seems to be more promising than the “E-Cat”!
That may be an important consideration. Battery manufacturers survive on people buying replacements for batteries that wear out. If you can continually re-charge the ones you have, you will never need to replace them.
However, there is another consideration. Re-charging older batteries that are more and more resistant to taking a charge is when they are more likely to over-heat and catch fire. It strikes me that these longer life batteries would not be prone to that problem because they would not develop the resistance. Ergo, far fewer fires. Safer.
Also, I think being non-liquid, you could make them more compact and of different shapes. This means engineers could find better ways to fit them in smaller places in devices such as our phones and other devices. That means more battery in our devices for longer lasting devices.
In vehicles, more batteries could be placed in nooks and crannies. . . adding more capacity which translates to more mileage per charge.
And until then, I’ll use lead-acid batteries in builds.
;-)
This one is far more than most such stories. Going from 4000 to 5000 recharge cycles to 200,000 is a tremendous increase in the technology.
I was being a little facetious, but I’m actually excited about this and do view it as a game changer.
Ping to tech discovery. The Ever-ready bunny will never run down!
Ping to tech discovery. The Ever-ready bunny will never run down!
Microwave ovens... the story I read is that a guy working on a radar setup in 1945 happened to have a chocolate bar in his shirt pocket, and noticed it melting. Totally accidental start of tinkering to create a microwave oven. All because the guy liked chocolate snacks.
They are:
Stainless steel
Anesthesia
Dynamite
Cornflakes
Penicillin
Play Doh
Super Glue
Velcro
X Rays
Safety Glass
Mauve (Which led the way for other dye colors)
Pacemaker
Post-It Notes
Microwave
Slinky
Ice Cream Cones
Teflon
Vulcanized Rubber
Plastic
Radioactivity
Saccharin
Smart Dust
Potato Chips
Coca Cola
Popsicles
penicillin...
I think a lot of this success has to do with using gold nanowires. Gold doesn't corrode as easily as other materials over time when in an electrolyte solution with electrical activity. Corrosion would reduce power and storage capacity over time.
Mr. President!!! We Must Not Allow An Electrolyte Gel GAP!!!!
The side effect is that this will distrupt Apple’s business model, because they time their product announcements to match their battery lifetime.
It happened in a Battery Lab! Pretty far from a random discovery.
The only catch is you have to buy All New Equipment to use it
Viagra
Penicillin was discovered by accident in a laboratory sink when someone ate a cantaloupe and placed the rind in the sink with open petri dishes that had bacteria on the growth media.
Then someone a day or so later noticed large areas of the bacterial growth had died upon exposure to the mold growing on the rind.
Thank God no one cleaned up the messy sink!
The same strain of Penicillin mold from that rind is still in use if I am not mistaken.
Many lives were saved because of a messy sink.
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