Posted on 02/06/2010 11:44:40 AM PST by ruralvoter
The battery, which has powered our lives for generations, may soon be consigned to the dustbin of history.
British scientists say they have created a plastic that can store and release electricity, revolutionising the way we use phones, drive cars - and even wear clothes.
It means the cases of mobiles and iPods could soon double up as their power source - leading to gadgets as thin as credit cards.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
uses a silicone-based industrial chemical in the patented manufacturing of Pizza Cheese. That chemicalPolymethylsiloxanehas no FDA approval for use as a food ingredient. Polymethylsiloxane is sold by Dow-Corning as Antifoam FG 10.
Cheers!
This is a non-event... as one of the comments following the story points out...
“1) As many people have stated, this is a supercapacitor. They’ve been around for decades, and they’re an American invention.
2) There’s no way this is the end of the battery - batteries can be made just as thin and have hundreds and potentially thousands of times the energy density of this supercapacitor. Powering a standard LED for 20 minutes requires a very small amount of energy - a mobile phone battery would keep the same LED lit for at least two days, and they’re a fair bit smaller than 5 inches square. How is a supercapacitor ever going to power a mobile phone/iPod? A battery is the only way forward for a low current application.
3) This is being reported as if it’s a scientific invention - it’s not, it just seems to be an engineering group making thin-film supercaps to stick in car door panels or something like that. It’s barely even news!
For the record, I work in a research group specialising in batteries and supercaps.
- Matt, Southampton, 06/2/2010 17:16”
I’m not impressed nature makes electricity(lightning) by mixing warm air and cold air, if they ever come up with a way to do that, then Ill be impressed
I want the patent on the adapter to fit these new flat plastic batteries retroactively, into every AA battery device in existence...
Waiting for the perfect transducer invention—that is where cold weather causes it to emit heat wavelets and in hot weather it releases cold instead. Tiny transducers aligning the peripheral walls of buildings would be fantastic and never needing electrical AC power to operate or sustain.
Really? You’re putting coppertops in your cell phone?
Well, that’s probably why it’s not going to market as is. Looking at the photo, I’m suspecting they’re expecting to use microchip technology to dramatically shrink the size of the “capacitor paper.”
Congratulations, you’ve won today’s 30,000 Feet Award for allowing the substance of the post you’ve quoted to fly over your head!
Zzzzz.
So you've noticed that too, hey? Indeed, these wunderbat announcements have been going on for at least 20 years now. If you bother to follow any of these initial announcements, the companies always crash and burn because "we're still working out the problems of commercial production". This happens every time! After multiple rounds of investment financing, the investments eventually dry up and the company goes out of business, presumably with the principals considerably richer in some fashion or other.
At this point, I think the whole wonderbat thing is just a very popular scam to fleece investors.
It’s minty fresh!
thanks, bfl
Yeah. I know.
British con artists looking for idiots to fund them!
I feel like I am going to explode.
Well, we do eat food made from chemicals.
Source, please.
In the Matrix, you are the coppertop!
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