Well that's not fun... This is fun:
Posted on 09/06/2006 1:01:17 PM PDT by Nachum
Scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed new technology to greatly improve battery performance and decrease the risks associated with the lithium-based batteries currently used.
Batteries are the bottle-neck for electronic devices' ability to operate effectively, the project's head, Professor Menachem Nathan told Israel21c.org. Mobile devices need more and more battery power, and consumers are seeking products that take the shortest amount of time to charge.
The demand has resulted in lithium-heavy batteries that heat to high temperatures, posing a fire hazard. "The problem we're dealing with here is the flammability of lithium batteries. There have been a few dozen cases - especially in laptops - of them bursting into flames," Nathan said. "It's not really a new problem. It has existed since lithium batteries came into being, but it's only come to the forefront when Dell made the recall - it became a bit more public."
"The development of our technology wasn't actually geared to solve the flammability issue - it was just a side effect. Our battery is simply safer due to its structure. We meet another demand of fast charge/discharge. With more and more powerful laptops, batteries are quickly discharged. And people are not going to wait a long time to recharge them, they want it done fast. So at the same time, it is recharging faster, and the way the battery is built works against flammability danger, making it safer."
The new "nano-battery technology" was developed by teams at Tel Aviv university over three years. It is made up of a number of tiny batteries positioned in such a way as to provide a large amount of electrical power without the risk of overheating. "We have thousands of miniature batteries which are interconnected," Nathan said. "The basic unit is a 50 micron diameter battery - about the thickness of a strand of hair. In comparison, the diameter of a triple A battery is about three millimeters - ours is .003 mm - about a factor of a thousand."
The nano-batteries have also proven to operate without a loss of capacity or stability after hundreds of charge/discharge cycles.
Nathan estimates that the batteries will enter the market within four years. The project is currently seeking interested companies to fund the continued research and production of the technology.
UN already preparing to order them to share it with the Palestinians, or be branded racists. Oh, well, they already started on that part.
Meanwhile, Arabs are still using camels. Islam or Judaism. You decide.
Way behind the curve, see blacklightpower.com
If the Israelis left a factory for making these with the Palestinians, they would have torn it down for the bricks and burned the rest as 'unclean'. They would throw the bricks at any infidels or polytheists they could find. Then they would go home to their tents to moan about the cold, the dark, and the hunger. And they would blame it on the Israelis. The Israelis who also left them greenhouses they trashed.
Israeli engineers are also responsible for saving Intel's bacon with the new Core 2 Duo chips.
Well that's not fun... This is fun:
It is not just batteries that Israel has created/invented/improvised and have given the world...the technological achievements are numerous in a multitude of disciplines....then there are the palestinians/arabs/muzzies...they also have provided the world...terrorism/sucide bombers/destruction/a death cult of a "religion of peace"....yet the libs/dems/UN/MSM/World in general always seems to back the muzzies against the Israelis.....I guess I just am alone in not being able to grasp the concept!!!!
The rest of the world calls it soap.
LOL. As Homer Simpson would say: It's funny because it's true.
Improved battery technology is always welcome.
However, I have been reading about an upcoming product from EEStor - a high voltage ultracapacitor - which can outperform even state-of-the art lithium batteries for less money.
http://www.rexresearch.com/weir/weir.htm
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