Comments on: Researches developed battery with 10x longer charge

By: fluffy

fluffy — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:07:37 +0000

unfortunately things in the lithium world move at snails pace.. we use cutting edge lithium polymers in our r/c models, and 2 years ago big names were promising batteries that would charge 5 times as quick, with 3 times as much capacity.

Here we are now, with almost the same batteries as back then, the only advance being higher discharge rates and lower temperatures.

These claims are usually hugely overrated and only published to get people (suckers) to buy company stock to fund research.

Development of new technology these days isn’t as cheap as it used to be!

By: Vingevam

Vingevam — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:16:57 +0000

quadruple for cars? you can already have cars that run longer on their batteries than they would with a full tank of gas, what more do you need? 10 times that and you can drive your car for 10 days without recharging.. There’s been viable electric cars out for 15 years but big oil / GM keeps them back. Just google “Gen I EV1″ and the recall of it in 2000, plus the Gen 2 version recall. Then you’ll understand why there’s no viable electric cars out for the public.

Hybrids/EVs work just as fine as gasoline cars, but to keep the oil-based economy going you need to have something drinking all that oil. Someone has clearly been watching too much Mad Max…

By: mr deadman

mr deadman — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:42:33 +0000

sweet, more bang for ya buk now eh

as the post says the possibilities for the use of this tech is endless, now if they could only quadruple this tech then im sure car manufacturers would be interested but atm theyd sure just say pissoff tbh

By: kebrus

kebrus — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:48:15 +0000

this is definitely something good, my current phone lasts 4/5 days but if i play some game for 15 minutes it lasts just 1 or 2

By: ~

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:11:01 +0000

Usually, the info they show is a lab test result.
Lab test < Real day to day test

So, for 20hrs of battery life, I bet we can only get
half of it.

if its a new technology, release is late, prices
are expensive…

By: g48

g48 — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:46:16 +0000

cant wait for this tech for my 24V DC NiCd S.C.R.T. (Self Contained Rescue Tool)

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By: smooth

smooth — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:43:20 +0000

great news

By: QuadrupelQ

QuadrupelQ — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:24:33 +0000

#12, I fully agree with you. Scientist have the tendency to exaggerate the real implications of their research, which basically means we can expect this thing to hit the stores around 2010 with a real capacity improvement of 5 tops.

By: Inevitable

Inevitable — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:35:49 +0000

This will be commercially available in 202_, if _________, and if ________, and only if__________.

By: 623

623 — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:25:47 +0000

Any “improvement” in batterys will not be seen to the general public for years as they will be “battle tested” by other demanding things just look how long other types were used else where before we seen them put into AA/AAA/C/D/etc forms

By: UncertainGod

UncertainGod — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:18:12 +0000

Very old news, the Stanford team made an announcement about this in July.

By: plasma

plasma — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:57:16 +0000

What was it last year, nano scaffolding gives 20 times performance?, year before that methanol fuel cells for latops, year before that super efficient solar panels.

Same crap different year.

By: fr

fr — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:55:23 +0000

@8, but they dont ban, less comments = less income for this site

so stop kissing their tiny balls.

By: wq

wq — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:53:07 +0000

does this mean i can play haIo 3 longer?

By: V

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:52:45 +0000

Wonderful!

This absolutely is a huge step!

Thanks for the news

PS: I like the warning message that you put on the comments.