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Nano Power for Nano Devices Patented
lperdue writes "Scientists at the Univ. Oklahoma at Tulsa have come up with a microscopic battery just a thousandth of a millimetre across ... and rated at a millionth of a milliamp.
It's still a lab experiment, but then so was the semiconductor at one time."
Lemme guess... we'll need a battery of these things to do anything useful.
He who laughs last is stuck in a time dilation bubble.
That's a micrometer and a nanoamp.
Really, that's what prefixes are for, you can do better than that. Thanks.
How about we create a new kind of candy with this stuff. It would be like Poprocks but it electrocutes you with the millions of micro-batteries it has. I wonder how toxic these batteries are.
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Oh, it's patented. Nevermind.
...that we're all cowboys and indians, and still live in teepees and ride horses and use covered wagons for our cargo.
It's nice to see some recognition for the home town. As you can see, I still don't want recognition for being from there:
posting as AC, haha!
It's still a lab experiment, but then so was the semiconductor at one time.
Just like that blue cheese in my refrigerator was once milk.
Below is an attached a pic of the battery.
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"Derp de derp."
I hope these things are stackable
I eat my grapes at room temperature, cuz the cold ones hurt my teeth
Also, the title is misleading. "Nano Power for Nano Devices Patented" sounds like the idea of having any power for nano devices has been patented. It's not that. The researchers have simply come up with a method to produce a structure that could be used for the purpose. There are undoubtedly numerous other ways of achieving this same goal. They're just one of the first reporting one to the mainstream press.
You've obviously never talked to anyone outside of the state. I worked for Creative Labs tech support in Stillwater for a year and heard it all. The first post was very accurate.
Liking Oklahoma City and Tulsa at the same time is impossible, especially if you live in Oklahoma.
Ironically, the two previous posts accurately reflect the respective attitudes of Tulsans and Oklahoma City natives.
I lived in Oklahoma for the last ten years, and now live in Japan. Change is good.
"Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day; set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life
Is it an AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA battery then?
"You lied to me! There is a Swansea!"
Obviously you only speak to fucking morons, if they think people ride horses to work and live in teepees.
...) and they have one of my top 5 national restaurants (Atlantic Sea Grill).
Tulsa is a piss poor laid out city. 99% of shopping is off 71st and Memorial (congestion is worse than at Sam Moon in Dallas).
My father is from New Jersey and my mother is from Mississippi. Surprisingly enough they didn't think that people lived in teepees in the 1960's so anyone that still actually believes anything like that is rather slow. Granted spending summers in NJ/NYC there were people who would give you a hard time about riding a horse to school, however these are just people trying to mess with you, they didn't actually believe it.
There are several things I like about Tulsa. They have a better art scene, it's a prettier town (more hills, trees,
Creative Labs is a joke. I have worked with several people that had that as their first job out of college and they say it was a horrible place to work. If you think people hate Tulsa, Stillwater is a shithole like no other.
Another example of how the patent system is used to prevent progress for the purpose of getting $.
Any nano engineer will now have to pay these guy to have their nano-bot work.
This invention was created at the University of Tulsa, a private institution. There is a University of Oklahoma at Tulsa, but that's a different entity, part of the state university system.
The situation is much the same in my current hometown, where we have a University of Denver (private) and a University of Colorado-Denver (public).
I can just picture a micrometer now; you know, a tiny measuring device (i.e., a meter) a millionth the size of a normal one. Why, it would be so tiny that you would need to measure it in micrometres (i.e., tiny units of length, each a millions the size of a metre)!
Assuming a sheet 1 battery deep, coating the base of my Powerbook would allow for:
depth: 245mm x 1000 batteries/mm = 245 000 batteries
width: 305mm x 1000 batteries/mm = 305 000 batteries
Giving a grand total of 8.6x10^10 batteries That's a current of: 8.6x10^7 Amps, which is quite scary!
Er...
245,000 batteries deep by 305,000 batteries wide gives 74,725,000,000 batteries. If each battery runs at a millionth of a milliamp (ie, one nanoamp), that comes out to 0.74725 amps.
But hey, that's around three-quarters of an amp *per battery layer*. Now stack those babies.