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Battery Breakthrough?
Technology Review (MIT) ^
| January 22, 2007
| By Tyler Hamilton
Posted on 01/22/2007 7:39:10 AM PST by aculeus
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posted on
01/22/2007 7:39:11 AM PST
by
aculeus
To: aculeus
This could be very big. Batteries are holding a lot of portable devices back.
2
posted on
01/22/2007 7:40:24 AM PST
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
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To: aculeus; AntiGuv
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posted on
01/22/2007 7:40:38 AM PST
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( WND, NewsMax, Townhall.com, Brietbart.com, and Drudge Report are not valid news sources.)
To: aculeus
4
posted on
01/22/2007 7:44:35 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(You'll shoot your eye out, kid)
To: aculeus
>A secretive Texas startup developing what some are calling a "game changing" energy-storage technology
 |
Work faster! Stevie
needs to sell ten million phones
that will not blow up . . .
|
To: aculeus
What sort of car would be in -40 Celsius (-40 Fahrenheit) temperatures? Hot weather and friction would seem to be more probable to break the ultracapacitor (coming from a non-expert).
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posted on
01/22/2007 7:46:47 AM PST
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
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To: aculeus
ultracapacitor power system to replace the electrochemical batteries in everything from cars to laptopsSniff sniff - I smell stockholder scam.
7
posted on
01/22/2007 7:48:11 AM PST
by
from occupied ga
(Your most dangerous enemy is your own government)
To: aculeus
8
posted on
01/22/2007 7:48:27 AM PST
by
A. Pole
(Gore:We are the most powerful force of nature.We are changing the relationship between Earth and Sun)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
"(Lack of) Batteries are holding a lot of portable devices back. Lack of adequate power storage technology is holding a LOT of things back---not just portable devices.
9
posted on
01/22/2007 7:49:16 AM PST
by
Wonder Warthog
(The Hog of Steel-NRA)
To: aculeus
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
11
posted on
01/22/2007 7:50:51 AM PST
by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: aculeus
If someone finds a way to release all of that energy at once, it will make quite a bang. (hint hint)
12
posted on
01/22/2007 7:53:08 AM PST
by
listenhillary
(You can lead a man to reason, but you can't make him think)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
My car. Gets that cold in Canada and the northern tier of US states.
13
posted on
01/22/2007 7:54:50 AM PST
by
DManA
To: listenhillary
"If someone finds a way to release all of that energy at once, it will make quite a bang. (hint hint)"
Kind of like a phaser on overload?
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posted on
01/22/2007 7:57:49 AM PST
by
chaosagent
(Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
To: DManA
Appreciated. It gets pretty cold where you live.
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posted on
01/22/2007 7:57:51 AM PST
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
This is a bomb not a battery.
16
posted on
01/22/2007 7:58:56 AM PST
by
Ford4000
To: Jedi Master Pikachu; RightWhale; Lakeshark
Alaska, N. Europe, Minnesota, ya sure ya betcha...
17
posted on
01/22/2007 7:59:35 AM PST
by
null and void
(Propaganda doesn't have to make sense. Hell, it often works better if it doesn't.)
To: BuffaloJack
>There ain't no such thing as a free lunch
Still, things get better.
My TI calculator
runs for weeks and weeks
on four double-A's.
Computers doing the same
won't be a "free lunch."
To: Ford4000
Why? Actual chemical batteries seem closer to explosives than this one.
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posted on
01/22/2007 8:00:49 AM PST
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
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To: aculeus
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posted on
01/22/2007 8:02:13 AM PST
by
Lee'sGhost
(Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
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