Li-Ion With 300% More Power, Minutes to Recharge

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Li-Ion With 300% More Power, Minutes to Recharge

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 23, 2005 @01:30AM from the i'll-believe-it-when-i-see-it dept.

Battery Nut writes "Altair Nanotechnologies claims to have found a way to reduce Li-Ion recharge time to minutes, as well as increase battery power by 300%, according to this press release. Seems they have received some good feedback by certain experts about thier work: "Two eminent experts in battery technology, Dr. K. M. Abraham and Dr. Vassilis G. Keramidas, have expressed strong support for Altair's work. " So is it a new revolution in battery technology, or hopeful hype? Stay tuned, their quarterly conference call is Thursday Feb 24th at 11AM." Anyone else think snake oil?

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Slashdoted already.... by andreweb · 2005-02-23 01:47 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Waiting for mirrors....
Re:Laptops and Electric Cars by odyrithm · 2005-02-23 01:58 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Just think.... my iBook and Powerbook laptops last much longer on a fresh battery than a comparably equipped Intel Mobile Pentium based laptop or even more energy conservative chips...

Yes because Intel based laptop manufacturers would never think to use this tech in there laptops. Mac users are so much more intelligent than PC users and this proves it once and for all!

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Re:Snakeoil? by Emperor+Igor · 2005-02-23 02:00 · Score: 1, Offtopic

But, cap'n, she can't take no more!
Re:Seems about due by biglig2 · 2005-02-23 02:09 · Score: 0, Offtopic

A real editor? You're new here, aren't you?

(Sorry folks, I can never resist this one!)

Back on-topic, it is of course reasonable to be sceptical until more info is available, perhaps even more so when it's something this important. Batteries are the main hold-outs still resisting Moore's law, and as such any advances are very important.

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Re:Anyone Else Think Slashdot Editors Fail Grammer by ledow · 2005-02-23 02:13 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Grammer? Surely you mean grammar? And also, only put question marks on sentences that are questions. If you're gonna be picky about other people, take the time to get it right yourself.
Re:Genetic Experiments? by Gridpoet · 2005-02-23 02:26 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Dude...hello??
Its a LIGER! Everyone knows that!

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Re:Electric Cars? by pklong · 2005-02-23 02:40 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Mmmmm 11KV in a Petrol station. Mmmmm big arc's. Mmmmm big fireworks.

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