Posted on 03/03/2014 9:55:59 PM PST by neverdem
Good point. Though....
...lithium is about half the density of water.
Assuming that the sugar is in a water solution (don’t know for sure), that means that the same size sugar battery would contain 5 times the energy of lithium ion.
CO2?? Aaaah! They're going to kill the planet!! /s
It might operate like a lead-acid battery. One electrode is connected to the implantee’s butt...where the lead is located; and the other to his gut, where the acid is produced. It’s elementary, Watson.
I just hope it doesn’t attract ants....
I wonder how far away we are from bio implanted computers that can run off of the implanted person’s metabolism?
To recharge your phone you just slide these pre-formed sugar sticks in the hole in the side of your phone and, presto, full charge. ;)
If only they could design one to work off body fat I’d never have to buy another battery.
Especially after the author called 'amp-hours' the 'energy storage density'. Without knowing the voltage, amp-hours is doesn't tell you anything about energy. In fact, it doesn't tell you much about anything.
Reading about magic batteries is almost as fun as reading about perpetual motion machines.
There is no known process that is 100% efficient.
Not if it's water vapor. Although temperature conditions might seem to be an issue. Condensation, freezing and all that.
Environmentalists will want it banned.
One order of magnitude...in the binary system = 2. Et voilà!
Biological process based fuel cell-runs as long as you feed it. Combine with self mobility and behavior to forage for sustenance, could become autonomous. Add intelligence and ability to duplicate or self repair and achieve “Replicators”. Piss them off...
Good point - I missed that.
It’s sad that a supposedly Science site is so science illiterate. Seems that science like everything else has gotten so PC, that they’ll sacrifice accuracy for the green agenda.
Once again sci/fi starts to become reality.
A new twist on “putting sugar in the gas tank.”
Certainly sounds like an engineering groaner. They might be plucking random factoids from different experiments in the same general family.
I’d think the kicker is, yes, voltage. It’s probably millivolts from the sugar, versus many volts from inorganic chemistry. Therefore more cells are needed, and the provision for that will eat up some of your capacity.
Bump for later.
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