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.

What kind of virus

[iminplaya]

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

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:It's harmless.

[mattack2]

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

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!"