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Printable Batteries Should Arrive Next Year

Posted by timothy on from the return-to-the-goodness-of-aa dept.

FullBandwidth writes "Paper-thin batteries that can be printed onto greeting cards or other flexible substrates have been demonstrated at Fraunhofer Research Institution for Electronic Nano Systems in Germany. The batteries have a relatively short life span, as the anode and cathode materials dissipate over time. However, they contain no hazardous materials."

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  1. Free Energy, woo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now we can have an unlimited supply of electrical energy. Just keep photocopying the batteries!

    1. Re:Free Energy, woo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

    2. Re:Free Energy, woo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I just want to know if these batteries will be available as a PDF so I can print my own.

    3. Re:Free Energy, woo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Could we put it in an endless loop so it keeps printing over the battery that it just drained to print the battery it uses to print?

    4. Re:Free Energy, woo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      That's genius! Then we would use the heat from the photocopier to power other stuff...

    5. Re:Free Energy, woo! by MichaelSmith · · Score: 3, Funny

      If I get stuck in the country with my electric car and no power I could ask somebody to fax me a new battery pack.

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    6. Re:Free Energy, woo! by oGMo · · Score: 3, Funny

      That's a great idea... I can have my e-book reader power itself!

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    7. Re:Free Energy, woo! by dna_(c)(tm)(r) · · Score: 4, Funny

      WHOOOOSH

      Excellent idea, while copying the batteries, we could tell complicated jokes and harvest the wind energy when someone misses it!

    8. Re:Free Energy, woo! by kurt555gs · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yes, and HP will sell you battery ink in cartridges for $2200.00 per gallon, just like regular ink jet ink.

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    9. Re:Free Energy, woo! by zmollusc · · Score: 2, Funny

      No, they will be available as a PDF to _prevent_ you from printing your own.

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    10. Re:Free Energy, woo! by danwesnor · · Score: 3, Funny

      I invented a bullshit-to-electricity generator and plugged it into our PBX, allowing us to run completely off the grid. Unfortunately, it didn't last long, as the device went into a highly recursive feedback mode and imploded when everybody tried to take credit for my work.

    11. Re:Free Energy, woo! by Hurricane78 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Fine. I'll go outside...

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    12. Re:Free Energy, woo! by geekboy642 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Laser printers, meboy! Sure the toner costs $100 for a replacement cartridge, but you can print 5,000 pages with one of 'em. And as a plus, it's got a laser in it! Quiet, fast, cheap...all made possible with the humble laser. Inkjet printers rightfully should be dumped into a hole in the ground.

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  2. Fantastic! by tsa · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now we can have cards with OLED displays that can show a message delived by you in person, via a video! Quite cool, I think.

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  3. Re:Duration by davester666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, you can record "I hate you, you fucking bitch" on a greeting card, and it plays the first time she opens it, then the battery runs out and the audio is lost, so she can't get a restraining order based on it...

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  4. Re:Aging and leakage by Sir_Lewk · · Score: 3, Funny

    The biggest problem with aging materials is their propensity to leak. Take your mother, for example. When I first met her, she was in her 60's and had an ass like a drum. But after a decade of giving her the old backdoor to and fro, she now leaks like a sieve. I'd recommend taking her to get fitted for a colostomy bag, but that's your family's business, not mine.

    BadAnalogyGuy, you are officially my hero.

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  5. Re:Aging and leakage by PopeRatzo · · Score: 2, Funny

    My copy of the CRC Handbook does not list zinc and manganese as organic compounds. Do I need to upgrade my library?

    Your CRC handbook isn't thinking outside the box.

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  6. Re:Aging and leakage by Timosch · · Score: 3, Funny

    When I first met her, she was in her 60's and had an ass like a drum.

    Daddy, is that you?

  7. Re:Imagine a stack of 'em by kimvette · · Score: 5, Funny

    I did something REALLY stupid when I was about 10 years old. I knew enough about parallel vs. series battery piles to be dangerous. Did you ever lick a 9V battery to see if it was good? If you got a really painful sting, it was good, and if it didn't hurt, it was probably too dead to run the game? Well, have you ever tried connecting 20 of those in series, making a pigtail and licking the conductors to see if it worked? I did. I learned a very quick lesson about that. I saw a flash of light and was dazed for a little while. I'm embarrassed to admit that here, but hey, I was only about 10 years old. Yep, I've always been a bit of a geek like that. That year I learned a lot of lessons: why a lot of batteries wired in series can be as dangerous as mains (my first mishap with electricity was when I was about five years old where the batteries in my pinball machine went dead so I made a cord to plug it into the mains - I fried both the outlet and the pinball machine internals), I learned why one should check the flyback circuit cables to make sure there is NO dry rot when working on internals a live (CRT) TV (or end up with a numb arm if there is a crack in the line and the screwdriver goes near it), why a magneto on a motorbike engine should not be played with while it's running. Those lessons were painful! :-D

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