The battery looks like a brick. With images of Lithium Ion batteries bursting into flames, I wonder how secure this technology will be.
Samsung Demos 30-Day Battery – trustedreviews.com: Samsung’s hydrogen fuel-cell battery specs are: a 12,000Wh lifespan, 650Wh/L energy density (about five times better than lithium ion).
Though the idea of having to top-up the fuel on a laptop may sound bizarre, many of us would be more than happy to do so in exchange for a whole month of laptop use from one “charge.”
Would you be willing to spend your hard earned money for a product such as this one?
Is that 30 days before it bursts into flames.
“Would you be willing to spend your hard earned money for a product such as this one?”
Hell yes!
-Fratm
Would you be willing to spend your hard earned money for a product such as this one?
How many dollars and how soon? Maybe in a year or two when the price comes down. But, I have been waiting impatiently for these. Imagine not needing to charge the battery. Just fill it with something like lighter fuel.
I don’t know what could be flammable about a little hydrogen …
I’d also like to know the source of the hydrogen. It’s probably fossil fuels.
No.3 where do you think most electricity comes from cotton candy?Fossil fuels are necessary efficent and a bridge technology that will carry us thru to the next stage of energy use.Even then we will need them for plastics because there is no other product that does what plastics do for us.The first one was developed to replace the ivory that billard balls were made of.Yes I would buy a fuel cell like this.BTW we are not going to run out of oil for hundreds of years.The tar sands of Canada are being mined right now and producing oil at less than $40.00 dollars a barrel.If Bush wanted to lower the price of fuel all he would have to do is announce a subsidy progam for mining our tarsands.He won’t the oil companies own him.
So a device that contains a liquid fuel source is also portable? Not spilling when jostled? Will TSA let it through? how heavy? Ever carry a gallon of water before? I an here the call now”What do you mean my laptop is covered? I was filling my battery and the fuel sloshed on the keyboard and shorted out?” I think I will wait until it is field tested by a more adventurous soul.
Why can’t we Americans invent and sell these things?? What’s the matter with us??
Oh never mind… who cares… gotta get in my Silverado and go get some takeout from the deli… then go over to my friend’s house and help him waste some more virtual terrorists and maybe some aliens, too.
(LOOKOUT!! Here comes yet another alien…).
Billabong
“where do you think most electricity comes from cotton candy?
So the story about the stork in the cabbage patch is probably BS too?
Good points that you shared. There are vast number of petroleum based products that could and should be manufactured by other materials. As to Bush being the boogie man, much as I loathe that cretin, I believe the oil industry has owned America going back a long, long time.
Just to illustrate a fuel cell refill, there’s this example:
Japanese mobile giant KDDI displays a prototype of a Hitachi mobile powered by a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC).
It has a felt pen style methanol cartridge that converts methane to power.
And also this:
@KVolk
Are you kidding, the TSA will probably make you drink it first, to prove its not hazardous.
A brick is right. IMO, it is not nearly as practical as it might seem on first inspection. Yes we want 30 day batteries but don’t want to have to lug around and extra 10 lbs and a 2×4 to get it. At that size and bulk, you’ll probably be somewhere where you can simply plug-in. No question it would be great if you are out in the bush but for most notebook users (can’t really call them laptops anymore, especially with this thing attached) I’d bet that its sales will be pedestrian.
hell, yes I’d buy that. Hopefully it won’t burst into flames. I really want to see this in hybrid cars.
30 days??
And what IF I dont take that many Pictures???
12,000Wh….IS that the TRUE watts??
That is enough to power a HOUSE…most HOMES do 1,500-5000 per hour…
Whats the refill cost, and WHAT is the refill?? Water??
Electrolytic??
CAN we put that in a UPS, for under $200??? THAT I would BUY…
That and a UPS, with EM/RF/power conditioning…WOW…
[Ed. – Link removed since it’s a duplicate from comment #4]
Link and more pics…
LOOK hard…
I LIKe that it takes up the BACK and is exposed…LOTS of air ports..
Keeps those USB and other connectors ON THE SIDES, so they dont get bumped and destroy the boards…
BUT what about the connectors?? HOW durable is this IF it gets dropped or bumped??
As long as Sony doesn’t make a bomb out of it we’ll all be OK.
The elephant in the room is that fuel cells operate at a very high (~400+ degrees) temperature. No wonder it has a lot of vent holes. I wouldn’t want to put it on my lap.
smartalix – It doubles as vasectomizer.
#4
Beer powered notebook?
bbbwwwaaattt?!?!?!!
get a spare laptop – so if it blows up, yer not totally boned
Kinda defeats the purpose of having a laptop doesn’t it?
I mean the fricken thing is as big as a ups.
I understand VIA has a sub 15 watt computer on a board called pico ITX. A normal laptop battery would probably last a month on one of those.
20,
Ya, Last a month…
OR 30 days???
Ya, 30 days…
or a month (give or take a few days)
How about lugging around 30 one day batteries then? Laptop on a gurney anyone?
JimR wrote:
Although a charge lasting 30 days sounds great, the size of the battery would likely make it impractical for many people. Instead, why not have just two batteries of the type mentioned by JimR (each battery lasts one day)?
To me, battery life becomes a non-issue when:
I think that many of the issues with battery life in portable devices are because they don’t meet one or more of the above items to make it a non-issue.