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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.'"
Or is just hot air?
If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.
Now we just need to create a battery that recharges using CO2. That would be the invention of the century.
Would there be any danger of using this in a confined space?
Only if you had beans for dinner.
Yes, it would be extremely dangerous to use this near any source of ignition.
At least, that is unless you had some kind of highly complex extraction device to remove the oxygen build up.
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for billions of years, for billions of generations, strange archaic anaerobacteria and primitive algae slaved their entire lives, heck, their entire species, to make your atmosphere one fifth oxygen
all so you could one day watch the family guy on hulu.com at a starbucks in pasadena
doesn't seem just
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Who knows, but it certainly gives new meaning to vaporware.
We're all hypocrites. We all have hidden parts, it's the contrast between them that make us more a hypocrite than others
Offtopic? This thing consumes oxygen when it charges.
Mods must be having a bad day, or just not reading TFA. Oh yeah, this is SlashDot. Par for the course.
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Seems like every new thing is going to be commercially available in 5 years. Why can't we have the future now? Do I have to move to Japan?
No, you had to move to Japan 5 years ago :P
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If you cannot leave your current planet, it's a confined space.
I'm pretty sure I'm stuck within this universe.
THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN, MAN!
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Sorry to Chocolate Rain on your parade, but urnotdoinitrite.
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So you're saying that a better battery technology involving dilithium comes out, just coincidentally, the same month as a new Star Trek movie?
Damn it I hate viral marketing.
Since when is reagent hyphenated?
Conservation of angular momentum makes the world go round.