Researchers at the University of Waterloo have been able to increase Lithium battery power by more than three times through the use of a new composite material. This material contains sulphur which has been attempted a number of times before by other scientists without success.
"The challenge had been to find a way to keep the electrically active sulphur in intimate contact with a conductor such as carbon. The researchers took mesoporous carbon, a material riddled with extremely fine channels that are about 1/20,000th of the width of a human hair. When it was put in contact with melted sulphur, the hot liquid was drawn by capillary forces into the channels, where it solidified into nanofibres."
News source: CBC
"The challenge had been to find a way to keep the electrically active sulphur in intimate contact with a conductor such as carbon. The researchers took mesoporous carbon, a material riddled with extremely fine channels that are about 1/20,000th of the width of a human hair. When it was put in contact with melted sulphur, the hot liquid was drawn by capillary forces into the channels, where it solidified into nanofibres."
News source: CBC
Humans have lived way over 2009 years so....
i think that were always under the threat being destroyed..however i think that technology is keeping up with that and keeping us safe(even though some of it is bad for us)
I'm still waiting for my flying cars and house robots. Damn you Tomorrow's World!
I remember seeing Bluetooth demonstrated on Tomorrow's World, saying how it was the next big thing. About the only thing I remember from it.
Nanotech will certainly be changing a lot of things in our lifetimes...
I'm sure mud and algae research is good too, since it probably has something to do with humans destroying habitat or climate change ...
does it have something to do with producing hydrogen?
You hear of all these "new" "better" "longer lasting" battery technologies.
Where?? I don't see any!
Heck, I can't even find Li-Ion AA/AAA rechargeable batteries! Then Energizer want $15 (au) for a pack of 2 NON rechargeables
You don't usually see this stuff thrown into today's products and actually increasing battery life. Rather they're used for eliminating bottlenecks and advancing what was previously a waste of time trying to advance.
I understand but you have to think that it has to be tested 100000000 times before it is bought my a company (investment) and actually released to the public.
See Sony.
Also, what is the motivation for battery companies to go and adopt better batteries? Surely there is more profit in selling people ****ty batteries that drain quickly so that they need to continually buy them.
Also, what is the motivation for battery companies to go and adopt better batteries? Surely there is more profit in selling people ****ty batteries that drain quickly so that they need to continually buy them.
if you are making ****y batteries and the guy across the street starts making slightly less ****y batteries, and he does it for the same price as you, you'd lose out ...
I don't have a clue as to the solution, but it certinally is not more powerful batteries....
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