virus battery Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:42:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Tobacco Virus Could Enhance Lithium Ion Batteries' Capacity Tenfold https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tobacco-mosaic-virus-battery-20101207/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tobacco-mosaic-virus-battery-20101207/#respond Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:42:20 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=12235 Viruses, even if they have a bad reputation as the most versatile and destructive forces for anything alive, have their good parts, too. Now, for instance, an interdisciplinary team of scientists from the University of Maryland have a clue on how to use a virus called TMV (Tobacco Mosaic Virus) to enhance lithium ion batteries' capacity tenfold. And they're not joking.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tobacco-mosaic-virus-battery-20101207/feed/ 0 12235 MIT Seeks Federal Funds for Developing Possibly Hazardous Virus Battery https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mit-hazardous-virus-battery-20090403/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mit-hazardous-virus-battery-20090403/#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:12:07 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=3256 Viruses seemed like a frightened enemy that kept standing in our way for the past... million years. Although they have their qualification and role in the ecosystem, we seem to hate viruses and only associate them will our colds, hepatitis, and other illnesses. Not for a moment we could think of them as of a power source.

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