Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Unveiled

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."

Comments

Could laptops once again be portable?

[steve426f]

With gaming laptops weighing in at nearly 10lbs. and a battery life between 50 minutes and two hours, it seems they are less than portable.

Perhaps the Lithium-Sulfur batteries can provide a reasonable amount of time without adding weight--bringing portability back to laptops. Afterall, all of the wireless technologies are useless when you're tied to an AC outlet.

Re:Fix a different problem...

[Trogre]

I still think there's a lot of potential in recyclable computing. Where the bit bucket is wired not to ground, but to a secondary storage like a capacitor.

Every time a 1 becomes a 0, the battery is charged.
Every time a 0 becomes a 1, the battery is drained a bit.

Only when the battery is empty would external power above the recycling overhead be required. I guess the question is whether this can be done while keeping the amount of energy needed for the recycling circuits below the amount of energy saved. /. did an article on this some time last year but I can't find it.