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Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Unveiled

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the amping-it-up dept.

mobilemag writes "Sion Power is showing off its new Lithium-Sulfur battery design this week at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC). SION believes that its new Lithium-Sulfur (Li-S) batteries are the answer to the power hungry devices on the market today."

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  1. Bloody Yanks... by Prowl · · Score: 5, Funny

    its sulphur

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    1. Re:Bloody Yanks... by BigBadBri · · Score: 5, Funny
      It ain't sulfur, boy - that there is good ol' Biblical brimstone!

      The Lord has sent these here batteries to power the iBooks of the Sodomites, and will smite them mightily!

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    2. Re:Bloody Yanks... by dotwaffle · · Score: 4, Funny

      IUPAC don't speak for England. They're international. So they're commie chemists! Sulphur! Honour! Colour! Crisps!

  2. Excellent for the Chinese Market by BigBadBri · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the article:

    Li-S could be easily packed into the tinniest devices

    That means it'll be great for powering my tinny DVD, my tinny digital camera, in fact anything tinny and of far-Eastern manufacture.

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    1. Re:Excellent for the Chinese Market by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

      "That means it'll be great for powering my tinny DVD, my tinny digital camera, in fact anything tinny and of far-Eastern manufacture."

      Oh good, I can finally have a heart!

      -TM

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  3. cool by hdd · · Score: 5, Funny

    " Li-S is still 3-5 years away." Wow just in time for 4.6Ghz longhorn laptops!

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    1. Re:cool by Mr2cents · · Score: 3, Funny

      That would make a great platform to play "Duke Nukem Forever" on! Drool...

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  4. Hmmmm... by Alexis+Brooke · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, these batteries might smell bad, but atleast they won't be depressed about it.

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  5. Mmmm... by k4_pacific · · Score: 5, Funny

    Q. what would the battery industry give me if I developed a lightweight, portable, inexhaustible power supply?

    A. A horse's head in my bed.

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  6. Meanwhile... by k4_pacific · · Score: 3, Funny

    Across the street at the Windows Reverse-Engineering Hardware Conference, a group of hackers got one of the Lithium-Sulpher batteries to work in a laptop running Linux.

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  7. This means.. by daishin · · Score: 5, Funny

    That Longhorn will be able to run on a laptop more than 30 minutes!

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  8. This has great potential by daishin · · Score: 3, Funny

    For portable personal-pleasure devices...

    Umm...I mean something running GNU/Linux ofcourse!

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  9. Re:Fix a different problem... by hayden · · Score: 4, Funny
    Personally, I'd like a little Pu-238 to power my laptop with. I figure that about 600 grams would power my laptop nonstop for ~40 years.
    I can see the marketing slogan now.

    "The battery that kills you long before it runs out"

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  10. Really? by rixstep · · Score: 3, Funny

    SION believes that its new Lithium-Sulfur (Li-S) batteries are the answer to the power hungry devices on the market today.

    Really?

    They're an answer to Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Microsoft?

  11. The real reason they used Sulphur... by GrpA · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is so that when you're working late in a confined machine room, 3 hours past midnight, the smell of burning sulphur will remind you that you're in Tech Hell...

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  12. Re:Fix a different problem... by mchappee · · Score: 4, Funny

    > Batteries are not used just in electronics.

    That's the funniest thing I've heard today. What else are they used in? Salads?

    Matthew

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