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Engine On a Chip May Beat the Battery

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the is-that-a-quarter-in-your-pocket? dept.

Krishna Dagli writes, "MIT researchers are putting a tiny gas-turbine engine inside a silicon chip about the size of a quarter. The resulting device could run 10 times longer than a battery of the same weight, powering laptops, cell phones, radios, and other electronic devices." From the article: "All the parts work. We're now trying to get them all to work on the same day on the same lab bench." The goal is to do that by the end of the year.

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  1. Wow! by Kirin+Fenrir · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's the energy source of the future! It's...

    ...gas?

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  2. All parts work, just need to put it together by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 4, Insightful
    ha, ha ha. How many times the rookies in my dept have come to me excitedly and said, "Great news Boss, Got all the functions implemented and unit testing checked out ok. All I need to do is to put it together. Finished 90% of the code in just 10% of the time. Want to take a month off to chill out in Aruba!"

    Then they spend 200% of the allotted time to make sure what they wrote in the first 10% interact with one another correctly.

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  3. Why??? by thepacketmaster · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Other than the obvious geek factor, why would we want to increase our dependancy on a fossil fuel.

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