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Sony Creating Sulfur-Based Batteries With 40% More Capacity Than Li-Ion (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: Since the original iPhone was released in 2007, we have seen some incredible advances in smartphone processing power along with a wealth of feature improvements like faster Wi-Fi and cellular speeds and larger, higher resolution displays. However, battery technology, for the most part, hasn't kept up. There are a few major battery suppliers but Sony is currently an underdog, commanding just 8 percent of the market for compact lithium-ion batteries. Its three largest competitors — Samsung (SDI), Panasonic and LG Chem — each command around 20 percent of the market. In an effort to change that, Sony is developing a new type of battery chemistry that can boost runtimes by 40 percent compared to lithium-ion batteries of the same volume. Sony's batteries use a sulfur compound instead of lithium compounds for the positive electrodes, reportedly allowing for much great energy density. Sulfur batteries can also supposedly be made 30 percent smaller than traditional lithium-ion cells while maintaining the same run times. The company is now working to ensure that the new battery chemistry is safe enough for commercial use.
I'm creating a battery that uses air and common garden dirt to produce 200% more power in a cell that is 46.7% smaller than a conventional Li-ion equivalent.
I'm an idea man.
V O L C A N O E S !!!
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I worked at a company where a hallway smelled like an open sewer for several weeks. What made it mysterious was that no sewer line went through that part of the building, leaving the building architect and plumber puzzled. The smell came from leaking batteries inside a UPS in a network closet. Since no one bothered to plugin in the monitoring cable, the one guy who did I.T. for the company didn't know that the UPS stopped working a long time ago. Now that was one hell of a stinker.
So you never use an actual working vagina, that actually stays warm 24/7 and self lubricates?
And my laptop charge lasts weeks, thanks to my never turning it on.
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It is quite common for people to complain, that their computer has "become slow" — they don't realize, that the machine is just as fast as when they bought it, but the software (including open-source) has become more demanding.
tl;dr:
Moore's law: Hardware speed doubles every 18 months.
Gates's law: Software speed halves every 18 months.
Actually it`s hard to type on a small phone with my large penis.. I mean fingers!