MIT Building Batteries Using Viruses

thefickler writes "Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are now using viruses to build cathodes for Lithium-Ion batteries. Three years ago these same researchers found they could build an anode using viruses. Creating both the anode and cathode using viruses will make batteries easy to build. This nanoscale battery technology will allow batteries to be lightweight and to 'take the shape of their container' rather than creating containers for the batteries, which could open up new possibilities for car and electronics manufacturers."

Comments

Hope all goes well

[FlyByPC]

Now there's a whatcouldpossiblygowrong article if I ever saw one...

Re:Hope all goes well

[kkrajewski]

(Doctor pulls out voltmeter.) Hold these, please. Yep, you're infected.

Re:Hope all goes well

[geekoid]

cold fusion? this isn't fusion at all. None of the byproducts you need to show that it is fusion exist.

Re:Hope all goes well

[krkhan]

So, in future, instead of random statistics like "Melissa caushed American business $9.87 billion", we may finally have something authentic (and precise) like "Conficker was at least 14 Mega Joules, it was devastating".

Re:Hope all goes well

[palegray.net]

I assure you, fusion does exist, and it's in everyday use in thousands of homes across America.

So can hookers now be considered

[antifoidulus]

mines? You definitely want to strap on a helmet before going in.....

What kind of virus

[iminplaya]

will power your vibrator? Herpes? You just scratch it to recharge?

Re:What kind of virus

[iminplaya]

Flamebait -- Heheh, I get it.

Re:What kind of virus

[Vectronic]

Couldn't find a sex device, but Eco Drive could work. Not quite the same, but better than nothing kinda thing.

Not sure why there aren't more (any?) MP3 players that use it, think there used to be some jogging radios that used kinetic energy to power, or help power them though. Phones, would probably last much longer as well. Kinetic from walking/etc, temperature from holding it, solar from having it on the desk/dash/etc...

If infected, that will redefine....

[hwyhobo]

...bipolar

And a new super-hero is born!

[erroneus]

After an accidental viral infection at MIT labs, the new hero can now do things that only batteries could do before! His given name, Melvin C. Cooper emerges now as "D u r a M e l !"

Re:And a new super-hero is born!

[Anonymous Coward]

He has a capacity for courage!
His potential is unlimited!

I only wish I could be there to view his inductance into the Justice Hall(effect)!

Re:It's harmless.

[mattack2]

It's also bad enough when people apparently don't use the "Preview" button first.

It won't work on a Mac

[fitash]

No virus, no battery

Re:It's a creative use for conficker

[drinkypoo]

Well, presumably they wouldn't build the battery with the HIV or influenza virus in it. Unless, of course, Energizer is feeling especially cruel.

Would that be "It keeps going... and going... and going..." or "New Energizer! Oy!"

2 second charges were better

[heroine]

Last month's battery which could recharge in 2 seconds was way better than this.

Aw, man! This sucks!

[icannotthinkofaname]

You mean the next time my computer catches a virus, it could infect me as well? And this virus will work even if I run Linux?

Everything I know is a lie!!!! >_

Someone stop this thing before it infects 12 million PCs!