Nanotube filaments on the battery’s electrodes
As our portable devices get more high-tech, the batteries that power them can seem to lag behind. But Joel Schindall and his team at M.I.T. plan to make long charge times and expensive replacements a thing of the past–by improving on technology from the past.
They turned to the capacitor, which was invented nearly 300 years ago. Schindall explains, “We made the connection that perhaps we could take an old product, a capacitor, and use a new technology, nanotechnology, to make that old product in a new way.”
“It’s better for the environment, because it allows the user to not worry about replacing his battery,” he says. “It can be discharged and charged hundreds of thousands of times, essentially lasting longer than the life of the equipment with which it is associated.”
Found by Gary Marks
Great Stuff!! Those guys at M.I.T. are awesome!!
I hope they figure out how to make these things bullet proof and have a high internal resistance. If used in a car, imagine the energy of equivalent gasoline but stored as dynamite!
And if it doesn’t pan out, the “tin-foil hat” crowd can claim the battery companies paid to suppress a technology which would have threatened their profits – just like the oil companies quashed the car that runs on water!!!
“They’ve had these working at Area 51 since 1957…”
so many conspiracies, so little time…
Great! Another idea developed by MIT that will probably go downhill because of greed and patent conflict.
I am reminded of that time in high school all those years ago when we discovered that if we pluged the project capacitors into the wall current, they would pop in a fantastic burst of confetti.
so it recharges quick – hopefully they can improve the charge length as well – I want to see a laptop that would get 24 hr battery life