A tenfold improvement in battery life?

[mrbomb 10+ year member]

any one hear about this yet?

http://www.news.com/A-tenfold-improvement-in-battery-life/2100-1041_3-6226196.html?tag=cd.lede

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[Tiger Bass 5,000+ posts]

That's amazing. Hope to see it put to use soon.

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

any one hear about this yet?
http://www.news.com/A-tenfold-improvement-in-battery-life/2100-1041_3-6226196.html?tag=cd.lede

discuss

I've heard a little about it but not much. A days life out of 1 battery charge for your laptop would be great though.

 

[tRidiot 10+ year member]

Think of the improvement in cell phone functionality.... battery life is holding us back to a large extent. Would be nice to have all that power on tap. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[Tiger Bass 5,000+ posts]

The biggest thing holding us back in technology concerning batteries is the weight of them.

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

The biggest thing holding us back in technology concerning batteries is the weight of them.

Well, yes, but the weight is because of the fact that we can't get the energy density required to power a laptop for 24 hours so we have to make the battery larger and thus heavier.

 

[Tiger Bass 5,000+ posts]

I guess it just depends whether this new improvement makes the batteries heavier, lighter, or stays about the same.

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

I guess it just depends whether this new improvement makes the batteries heavier, lighter, or stays about the same.

True, but again it all comes down to energy density. If they can pack much more energy into the new batteries in a smaller space who cares if the unit size of it weighs more when you can get more energy out of a smaller size battery.

 

[Tiger Bass 5,000+ posts]

True, but again it all comes down to energy density. If they can pack much more energy into the new batteries in a smaller space who cares if the unit size of it weighs more when you can get more energy out of a smaller size battery.

It just all depends though. If you start talking about something like putting these new batteries into cars, the overall weight matters a lot.

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

It just all depends though. If you start talking about something like putting these new batteries into cars, the overall weight matters a lot.

True since no matter what they will want to pack a large amount of these into a car to give it a long range, I was thinking more portable electronics type things.

 

[Tiger Bass 5,000+ posts]

True since no matter what they will want to pack a large amount of these into a car to give it a long range, I was thinking more portable electronics type things.

Ahh, yes, indeed for portable electronics. This very well could be the answer as a power source for the new OLED screens.

 

[mrbomb 10+ year member]

that would be very interesting for electric cars, i havent thought about that one

 

[Tiger Bass 5,000+ posts]

Having taken a materials science class and learning all this shit, I have a feeling that this means the batteries will be lighter. Perhaps not enough to make a difference for cars though.

Also, I'm sure my Materials Science teacher shit himself with glee when he found this out. A very strange little China-man he was.

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

I took a materials class, interesting stuff for sure, even considered changing my majors for a bit, but EE is more interesting to me.

 

[Max_Power 10+ year member]

sure hope it comes around. A laptop running for a day would be awesome.... the cell phone thing would be great too..... cant tell you how many times I forget to charge it.