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"Spin Battery" Effect Discovered
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the University of Miami and at the Universities of Tokyo and Tohoku, in Japan, have discovered a spin battery effect: the ability to store energy into the magnetic spin of a material and to later extract that energy as electricity, without a chemical reaction. The researchers have built an actual device to demonstrate the effect that has a diameter about that of a human hair. This is a potentially game-changing discovery that could affect battery and other technologies. Quoting: Although the actual device... cannot even light up an LED..., the energy that might be stored in this way could potentially run a car for miles. The possibilities are endless, Barnes said.'"
This sounds cool, but what they are not telling you is that it will stop working if you bring it south of the equator. :)
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...the energy that might be stored in this way could potentially run a car for miles. The possibilities are endless, Barnes said.
Awesome, I have yet to travel miles by car.
I am the lawn!
Oh, yeah. We know how the spin works. But it works only in the PR side of things.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Do not open or crush battery. Severe risk of releasing a life-sucking vortex.
Do not dispose in fire. Doing so could loose a storm of flaming vortices.
Do not use this battery on carnival rides, while figure skating, or place in spinning clothes washer. Risk of severe gyroscopic reactions, which may lead to property damage, personal injury or death.
Personally I want a SG1 joke
'how does it work?'
-techno bable-
'so magnets'
Although the actual device... cannot even light up an LED...
So you're telling me this thing is less powerful than a potato?
A liberal coating of snake oil.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Now Eddy's in currents too? I think I saw his couch float by back when he was in the space-time continuum.
like taking the batteries out of things, then losing them in the toilet, the cat, the microwave...
I suddenly have an urge to put batteries in a cat...
No sig now
I for one welcome the new SI unit human hair diameter overlord.
But when he threatened my life with a switchblade knife?!
I wonder if wind turbines might be able to use this method to store "over charges produced from gusts which can then be feed into the grid when the wind drops off. In other words, simply use it as a capacitor for off-peak wind capacity.
Say, you're right! We should come up with a word for this..."battery" sounds just awesome! Just like in the summary!
Scientists think that with a few modifications the new technology could work with kilometres too, though it would still be recommended that the host country is a monarchy or at least a strongly-presidental republic.
Other technical difficulties like the extremely strong gyroscopic effect should be overcome as well.
And I imagine the recharge time would be quick.
(I also am imagining a charger that looks like a miniature warp engine from the USS enterprise... pulsing along. COOL)
That would make a very nasty 'oops' whilst fiddling with your car... 'oops I just fried every electronic device for 5 miles!'