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Recharge Batteries in 30 Secs
An anonymous reader writes "NEC has developed organic radical batteries
which are recharged in 30 seconds. Good news, they won't (probably) cost more than the current NIMH batteries." Why is it that I'm not holding my breath to have this technology in a laptop?
So, 7.5 seconds in 18 months?
. . . they're only available in "A" and "B" cells.
Stefan
Now I know why I use glasses ... thought it said "orgasmic radical batteries". Whew! Was wondering about the charge my laptop was about to get!
Somehow I get a picture in my mind of Japanese engineers studying how Berkeley hippies have the energy for university classes AND for protesting every cause under the sun. :)
"We're sorry, but the website you're trying to reach has been disconnected."
Is it powered by coffee too?
The bad news is that they start to pulsate gamma radiation, require the sacrifice of an unborn child conceived during a full moon and each recharged battery causes an angel to lose his or her wings.
Please, think of the angels!
Hate me!
So fast discharge is allowed as well...
At first, I thought of quick-charging camera flashes. Maybe even video with flashes? But then I started thinking about railguns and emp devices...
Hopefully longer than the attention span of morons who can't read entire articles.
Because carrying around a human being in a por with life sustaining fluids being pumped in through tubules and feeding a fake virtual world to imprint on his consciousness until he realizes that he's not living in the real world after taking the right pill is just not as portable as today's batteries. ;P
Un-news
Ow! Hot! Hothothothot!
Why is it that I'm not holding my breath to have this technology in a laptop?
Hmm... Lets look at the numbers here... I'll use the numbers for my trusty 17" powerbook.
The power supply for charging the battery puts out about 60 Watts of power. The article mentions that instead of taking an hour to charge, these batteries only take half a minute. That's 120 times the power, which means the total power used by a charger for my laptop using these batteries would be...
7200 Watts! Holy hairdryers batman! With power consumptions like this, your athelon wouldn't be the only thing that's ON FIRE in your laptop!
And remember where we like to keep our laptops!
Cheers,
Justin
Nope, I distinctly remember them saying there is NO smoking in the bathroom.
Yeah, that wouldn't look suspicious at all either... Carying a big bulky bag with wires coming out of it, into the bathroom.
Sig it.
Is that National Institute of Mental Health (I'm serious; I don't know what it means. (I know it's NOT that!))?
Occasionally these organic radical batteries will burn down your SUV and they're constantly complaining every time you eat pork chops or wear fur.
A good compliment to my current laptop battery which, at 3 years of age, discharges in under 30 seconds.
With all the improvements in technology, the only thing majorly lagging has been battery performance -- something critical as we're going mobile everything. The only reason I've never bought a laptop is because the damn things die so fast that there's basically no point when you can just wait until you get back to your desktop. All this fuel-cell/fission battery nonsense has struck me as vaporware at best, I hope this is for real.
My question is if a battery can be refilled that fast, how much juice is needed for the job? More than what a 12-volt adapter would put out? If it's small enough, you could conceivably put your own "Stratotanker" in your suitcase and refill your batteries on the road with no need for a power outlet.
Oh yeah, and all these silly electric cars could now become practical. You could recharge your vehical faster than a conventional gas pump. Way to go, NEC! Bring on the radical batteries.
Unless it needs liquid helium cooling! :p
Nothing to see here; Move along.
It takes me about 10 days of listening to rolling surf sipping rum drinks with little umbrellas to recharge my organic batteries.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Direct solar power. Battery is for the cops.
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make install -not war
It's very entertaining to tape some copper wires in someones (someone you don't like, and who, preferably, doesn't have a gun, baseball bat or any sharp or heavy objects) bag before they leave on their flight.
It's a great practical joke, even the judge agreed on that before sending me off to jail.
I use a system almost like the one you guys describe, except instead of a giant capacitor I have a spare set of batteries, and instead of using it to charge the drained batteries, I just take it out of the charger and put the drained set in its place. Voila, I have a new fully charged set of batteries in about ten seconds.
Man, I'm way ahead of the technology curve.
You can also measure the resistance of your body by sticking paperclips into the wall receptable and measuring the time it takes for you to catch on fire.