Microgenerators Coming Soon to Electronics Near You

fygment writes "A new microgenerator developed at Georgia Tech can now produce enough power to run a small electronic device, like a cell phone, and may soon be able to power a laptop. The microgenerator is about 10 millimeters wide, or about the size of a dime. When coupled with a similarly sized gas-fueled microturbine (or jet) engine, the system, called a microengine, has the potential to deliver more energy and last 10 times longer than a conventional battery. This is still just a quarter of the problem. A turbine is still being developed to turn the generator and that will require fuel and storage of some kind."

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Metric system 101

[Delirium Tremens]

10 millimeters are roughly equivallent to 1 centimer, or 1% of a meter.

It's also 39% of an inch ... but everybody knows that.

1cm

[MarkoNo5]

The microgenerator is about 10 millimeters wide, or about the size of a dime.

1cm will do just fine :p

Powers of ten

[isomeme]

about 10 millimeters wide

It's also about 10,000,000 nanometers wide, or 0.00001 kilometers wide. But none of these three options has quite the polish of saying it's 1 centimeter wide.