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Toshiba's One-Minute-Recharge Li-ion Batteries
TheGuano writes "No idea if this is related to Altair's six-minute-charge Li-ions,, but Toshiba has just announced a similar Li-ion that recharges to 80% capacity in one minute, while losing only 1% total capacity after 1000 cycles. It's set to debut in 2006 for use in hybrid cars (my current Toshiba Satellite doesn't get very far on battery power, but it's a beautiful shade of blue), but 'should' make its way to other, hopefully smaller devices eventually."
I'm still waiting out for wireless power :-D
women sigh round the world heavily, while dreaming of AA size waterproof versions.
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Ok...I just charged these things for exactly one minute. Everything is working fine so fariweofaidfoiafoaif
These batteries also drain 80% in one minute!
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There are good and bad things that come from battery technology finally making some headway:
The Good: Efficient transportation, long lasting mobile electronic devices, and of course light sabers.
The Bad: People get totally freaked out when the engine on a hybrid car shuts down as the electric kicks in. That silence is just plain wrong, the engine should stay running. Oh, that and a lot of my clients are oil companies.
Trying to use sarcasm in text-based forums does not work.
If a Lion battery with enough Kwh to run a car can be recharged in one minute, do the lights in the entire block dim? Or after looking at the photograph, is this for a hybrid slot car?
So we should all buy stock in manufacturers of three-phase power sockets!
easy way around, decent speakers and a recording of your engine idling. So you have virtual engine idling. Could add Dual Shock ability to make the car rumble as if the engine is idling. But only if you buy the rights 1st :P
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That's fine, but how about my nutty idea? Imagine a service where music could be transmitted wirelessly, and you could have a receiving device even smaller than an iPod to listen to the music with. I wonder if anyone would or could ever invent something like this?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Hey - go easy. It's his first day at the patent office.
It's even worse - the batteries are for a CAR. Plug a few of those babies into your local power drop at the same time, you'll blow a street transformer.
thats roughly 445 horse-power-hours = 336 kilowatt hours or 1.21 gigajoules. if you push in this much energy in say ten minutes that requires a 2 megawatt power source.
And if you could push that much energy in one second, it'd be 1.21 gigawatts!!
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Toshiba announces a thin stick-on device using nanocrystals that you can use on your cell phone....
More details about this amazing technology can be found here.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Not stolen - Toshiba *licensed* from space aliens.
now if you can only get an electric car to go 88 mph
Wasn't that supposed to be the big selling point for Li-ion battery's several years ago when they first appeared on the horizon. "No recharge memory like Ni-Cad!". :-(
Well it's clear they don't have "recharge memory". It's more like "recharge Alzheimer's", i.e. they completely forget how to recharge