Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Plastic Batteries Coming Soon?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the polymer-power dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Engineers at Brown University have built a prototype of a hybrid plastic battery that uses a conductive polymer. The system, which marries the power of a capacitor with the storage capacity of a battery, can store and deliver power efficiently. For example, during performance testing, 'it delivered more than 100 times the power of a standard alkaline battery.' Still, it's unlikely that such a device can appear on the market before several years."

1 of 200 comments (clear)

  1. Average time-to-market? by linkedlinked · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How long, on average, does it take for a new technology (especially battery related) to reach the market, after an announcement like this?

    I ask, because I've been reading slashdot for over 4 years, and it seems like there's a healthy number of "revolutionary power supply" breakthroughs, or "batteries that will change your life (for cheap!)," and today, my new laptop still dies after an hour and a half.

    I don't mean to be a cynic, but it really feels like these ideas never make it out of the lab.