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World's First Battery Fueled By Air
Hugh Pickens writes "The Telegraph reports on the revolutionary 'STAIR' (St Andrews Air) battery could now pave the way for a new generation of electric cars, laptops and mobile phones. The cells are charged in a traditional way but as power is used an open mesh section of battery draws in oxygen from the surrounding air that reacts with a porous carbon component inside the battery, which creates more energy and helps to continually 'charge' the cell as it is being discharged. The battery has a greater storage capacity than other similar-sized cells and can emit power up to 10 times longer. 'The key is to use oxygen in the air as a re-agent, rather than carry the necessary chemicals around inside the battery,' says Professor Peter Bruce of the Chemistry Department at the University of St Andrews. 'Our target is to get a five to ten fold increase in storage capacity, which is beyond the horizon of current lithium batteries.'"
Now, instead of (and after) producing and emitting abnormally large quantities of CO2 into our atmosphere, we add insult to injury by starting to deplete our oxygen rapidly, yes rapidly - after all we know everybody likes cars, no matter what they drive on, a 500 million or so cars that run on oxygen should do it.
Animals can't drive cars, and neither can plants. But is is our oxygen, right?
Congratulations, my fellow cancer cells! We seem to be spreading :-)
It's powered by the investors' money. They cram $1000 in bills into every battery and light it on fire. That's what's using up all the oxygen...