All the stories tagged with: batteries
IBM develops air-breathing batteries, aims for 500 miles on a single charge
04/23/2012, An air-breathing battery that can power cars for more than 500 miles on a single charge. Quite unreal isn’t it? But that’s exactly what IBM is trying to achieve. In 2009, IBM embarked on a quest dubbed as the “Battery [...]
Scientists come up with a flexible battery that can be woven into clothes
02/06/2012, While there are t-shirts that incorporate the use of batteries to light up the design, they can hardly be described as convenient. After all, having a battery pack strapped to the inside of your shirt can’t be all that comfortable, [...]
earthCell: batteries that are good for the environment
11/11/2011, Batteries are useful products that keep our lives running, but one of the main problems that we encounter while using them is their disposal. Most people simply toss batteries in to the trash, which then ends up filling up our [...]
New li-ion battery reportedly charges as fast as it takes to refuel your car
10/07/2011, One of the reasons people aren’t as willing to adopt electric vehicles (EV), is probably due to its power output isn’t up to par with most fuel-powered cars, unless of course you go for a Tesla S EV, which is [...]
Scientists discover new material to make li-ion batteries charge faster
09/09/2011, If you’ve ever felt that your devices take too long to charge, but yet seem to drain battery quicker than you can use it, a team of scientists from the Department of Energy lab’s Chemical Sciences Division have recently discovered [...]
Wastewater can power our batteries in the future
08/23/2011, Ever wondered what happens to all that dirty toilet water that gets flushed? For starters it has been treated and then used in nuclear plants, as well as in cities that rely on the toilet-to-tap technology, and even breweries that [...]
Quick charge battery juices up to full capacity in just 5 minutes
03/24/2011, A battery is a battery is a battery, but how different is this one that was concocted by Illinois professor Paul Braun? Well, Braun and his group has managed to develop a 3D nanostructure for battery cathodes which paves the [...]
Bendable batteries in the pipeline?
02/28/2011, Boffins from South Korea have managed to find a way to use graphene nanosheets in order to create a power source that can bend – now how about that? Could this mean Gumby-style batteries are on their way? Perhaps, and [...]
Huge batteries offer New York grid added stability
01/11/2011, Lithium ion batteries look set to be no longer the domain of notebooks and other portable electronics in the near future – in fact, a bunch of truck-size battery banks are currently delivering quick bursts of juice to the electricity [...]
Small Vibration-driven Generator Could Replace Button Batteries
12/01/2010, A Japanese university researcher has come up with a small vibration-powered generator that measures in at 2 x 3 x 12mm only and is capable of churning out 1.56mW of power with a vibration of 357Hz. According to him, the [...]
Batteries powered by potatoes
06/21/2010, We are not going to look at our french fries the same way ever again, not after reading about Yissum Research Development Company Ltd. coming up with a “solid organic electric battery based upon treated potatoes.” Basically, this is a [...]
Hungry Batteries concept slim down as they get drained
05/21/2010, Designer Mac Funamizu has come up with a rather strange concept – the Hungry Batteries that will come in a traditional form factor, although they will physically end up slimmer and slimmer the less charge they hold. Basically, this is [...]
Hitachi Looks To Come Up With 10-year Lithium-ion Batteries
04/05/2010, Hitachi has apparently come up with a technology that is able to double the usable lifetime of a lithium-ion battery, which will certainly be welcome by all consumers all around. The method that Hitachi uses will extend the life of [...]
