Butane Fuel Cell, a Viable Solution to Replace Lithium-Ion Batteries
A company called Lilliputian Systems has developed a fuel cell to replace Lithium-Ion Batteries in electronics industry. It will be very interesting to see how science will be able to evolve from this point on as the new fuel cell system that runs on butane cartridges is able to replace heavy laptop and mobile batteries.
New Supercapacitor Can Give 1MW/kg/sec of Electricity
If we pursue the road towards the full electric car, we must find ourselves the energy storage that can bear at least the power of gasoline. As far as today, batteries, supercapacitors and hydrogen have been the ways to follow for powering an electric car. Of the three, the supercapacitors have a great advantage: they can charge and discharge very quickly, giving instant torque to the electric car's motor.
Charge Your Electric Car Battery in 5 Minutes
We all like our phone Li-Io batteries as we can charge them over and over again, with little performance loss in time. And the weight is also little. But it takes one hour or more for a phone, and when we use Lithium Ion in car batteries, it takes maybe 9 hours for a full charge.
New "Spin Battery" Storing Energy into Nano-Magnets
US Researchers from the University of Miami and Japanese researchers from the Universities of Tokyo and Tohoku invented a new type of battery that could revolutionize the way we think of a battery in all the aspects, from their charging speed to their capacity and discharging power.
USB Solar-Powered Battery Pack Unveiled at CeBIT
The Company called FSP came to CeBIT 2009 with USB green battery charger which uses solar panels.
Using Zinc-Air Batteries to Charge Your Mobile Phone
Based on Zinc-Air battery technology, a Japanese company called KFE, developed a power source for a portable phone charger.
Liquid Battery from Molten Salts Invented at MIT
As always, MIT is coming with lots of interesting ideas that often represent really viable ways of improving our energy sources. This time, MIT has come up with a special type of battery never seen before.
New Nano-Materials Mix Boosts Li-Ion Battery Capacity
Carbon nanotubes have been in the focus of many scientists and universities studying battery technologies recently. Now, a group of Rice University researchers found out the novel properties of carbon nanotubes surrounded by metal-oxide arrays for use in lithium ion batteries.
Toshiba DMFC-Based Battery Charger Close to Market Release
Toshiba has announced for a while that they will introduce on the market a direct methanol fuel cell-based battery charger(DMFC) at the end of march 2009. The company also announced it will releases for market DMFC packs for cellphones and laptops starting with April.
I Charge My Batteries With Water. How About You?
You go somewhere for the holidays. You have your mp3 player to forget about the "dead times" during not-so-interesting-travels. But what? Suddenly your mp3 player stops working! Noooo!
