Simple Chemical Trick To Boost Battery Efficiency

space_mongoose writes "Hitachi thinks that a simple chemical additive could significantly improve battery life. Alkaline batteries have a positive electrode of manganese oxide and a negative electrode of finely powdered zinc, but zinc oxide forms around these grains of zinc. Hitachi's solution is to replace the zinc with a fine powder of zinc-aluminum alloy, displacing the zinc within the zinc oxide layer making it a much better conductor."

Comments

At least this is not

[zappepcs]

another battery from Sony

Re:At least this is not

[evwah]

as a sony employee, I think someone should mod you -1 humornotappreciated

jk:P

Re:At least this is not

[Anonymous Coward]

As a typical member of /. I think someone should mod you -1 employernotappreciated

May I be the first to say

[CrazyJim1]

I'm glad we live in a world with zinc.

Re:Peak current, yes - Extra life, not so much-THI

[zippthorne]

Would that be their current current requirements?

Re:Peak current, yes - Extra life, not so much-THI

[fyngyrz]

Would that be their current current requirements?

Currently, yes. They're all amped up, you'll be unable to resist them when they come out. Shocking charges, I know, but few have the capacity to induce or impede such a flow of power, watt?

Re:Peak current, yes - Extra life, not so much-THI

[smellsofbikes]

Wire you so revolting? You could've composed a joule-like response, but you'd rather choke us with terrible puns. Go hohm.