self-charging battery Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:18:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Self-Charging Battery Transforms Vibrations Directly Into Chemical Energy https://www.greenoptimistic.com/self-charging-battery-transforms-vibrations-directly-into-chemical-energy-20120823/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/self-charging-battery-transforms-vibrations-directly-into-chemical-energy-20120823/#comments Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:24:26 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=25839 A research team and the Georgia Institute of Technology has invented a lithium ion battery that charges itself by using the environment vibrations. Unlike other similar devices, this one is highly efficient, because it converts mechanical energy to chemical energy directly, without using electricity as a middleman. A piezoelectric membrane is at the Lithium Cobalt […]

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