Super Fast Recharable Batteries Coming Soon!

[dutchmasterflex]

Those nerds at MIT have done it again..


With capacitors!

Originally Posted by Engadget Posted Jun 9th 2006 8:00AM by Thomas Ricker Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Storage Check it grandpa, 'cause your 18th century inventions are set to change modern portable electronics in a big way. Those neomaxizoomdweebies over at MIT have discovered a process whereby capacitors -- those little stored energy devices knocking dim-witted TV tinkerers on their asses for decades -- can be slathered at the electrodes with nanotubes thereby increasing the surface density to store more energy. So just like a thick fuzzy towel soaks up more slop than a bedside sock, these new capacitors can be kept small and store the equivalent energy of today's chemical batteries. Why do you care? Well, the device could potentially be recharged hundreds of thousands of times and in only a matter of seconds saving you time and the environment, heartburn. Prototypes are expected within the next few months with actual product hitting the market in less than five years. Fuel cells, fool cells, bring on the capacitors!

http://www.sciencentral.com/articles...e_id=218392803

[RC45]

Great prospects, but reading the following 2 paragraphs summarises the economic dilemma unlimited use has always posed:

Schindall also sees the ecological benefit to these reinvented capacitors. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, more than 3 billion industrial and household batteries were sold in the United States in 1998. When these batteries are disposed, toxic chemicals like cadmium can seep into the ground.

3 billion - thats a big business with lots of money tiied up in battery production, sales and REPEAT sales...

"It's better for the environment, because it allows the user to not worry about replacing his battery," he says. "It can be discharged and charged hundreds of thousands of times, essentially lasting longer than the life of the equipment with which it is associated."

So with this in mind then, between 1998 and today I would have only had to purchase 36 AA & AAA batteries - in TOTAL.

Thats enough batteries to cover all the remotes, clocks and little doodads in the house.

Noit only that - but I would never have to buy any again - forever

Doesn't sound like good business sense - - great technology though

[saadie]

cool ....... i hope they come in the market soon ..... 8)

[dutchmasterflex]

haha.. google battery ads..


Sadly RC has shined the truth light once again.. man you're right.. just like those damn oil companies.

But what if these batteries were thousands of dollars each?

And either way, you know the Military will want this technology.. and when manufactures start producing these batteries for them they will keep making them for regular consumers.

[RC45]

^^ but thats the thing - they never get worn out, so if they start mass production (after the military, who probably funded the research - have got their fill) everybody would only need to buy a very few batteries.

At $5 for a 12 pack AA and AAA's sre cheap - but they are only cheap cause I have to kleep buying em..

So yeah - maybe these batteries will be $100 each - for AA size hehe

[stracing]

did manufacturers ever say damn those solar powered calculators?

maybe its not us the consumers will buy the battery alone, maybe its the makers of electronic gadgets that wants them and that could be their marketing ploy