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The Battery That Will Finally Unlock Massless Energy Storage
https://www.popularmechanics.com ^ | MAR 22, 2021 | BY CAROLINE DELBERT

Posted on 03/31/2021 9:27:40 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 03/31/2021 9:27:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: muleskinner; Fiddlstix; TexasTransplant; Squeako; dennisw; norwaypinesavage; 1Old Pro; weps4ret; ...

Battery Ping!...................


2 posted on 03/31/2021 9:28:35 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: Red Badger

April fools.


3 posted on 03/31/2021 9:28:53 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Red Badger

Massless, does that make them Protestant Batteries?


4 posted on 03/31/2021 9:30:31 AM PDT by Fai Mao (Hillary Clinton =The Pig In A Pantsuit (The PIAPS))
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To: Fai Mao

Is this like the pill you put in your gas tank that gets you 200mpg?


5 posted on 03/31/2021 9:33:14 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (`)
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To: Red Badger

This is actually an impressive and interesting development.


6 posted on 03/31/2021 9:34:02 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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To: Red Badger

This “battery” is old news. Stargate Command already brought these “Zero Point Modules (ZPMs)” back from Atlantis.


7 posted on 03/31/2021 9:34:17 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Red Badger

Gosh, forgot that it was time for the monthly we solved the battery issue announcement! Believe this is the 114th monthly announcement that revolutionary battery technology breakthroughs have been made! Batteries are now free, very tiny, massless, and have unlimited storage.


8 posted on 03/31/2021 9:35:20 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: Lazamataz

Yes, it is...................


9 posted on 03/31/2021 9:36:13 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: Fai Mao

I’d say this was a pretty unorthodox technique, but it’s all Greek to me.


10 posted on 03/31/2021 9:38:24 AM PDT by dangus
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Made me remember ads in the back of PM for gas line magnets, which were “guaranteed” to improve gas mileage by 40% or more. What a crock.


11 posted on 03/31/2021 9:41:23 AM PDT by Hazwaste (Socialists are like slinkies. Only good for pushing down stairs.)
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To: Red Badger

I read these stories for decades now. Any day now... kind of stories.


12 posted on 03/31/2021 9:41:24 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: Red Badger

This will be in markets right after COLD FUSION comes on line and cancer vaccine is discovered.


13 posted on 03/31/2021 9:43:40 AM PDT by entropy12 (President Trump deserves 5 Nobel Peace prizes for pushing warp speed creation of covid-vaccines. )
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To: Fai Mao
Exactly!
Weight is a unit of force equal to the acceleration of a one kilogram to one meter per second2; i.e. One Newton. Mass is where Catholics gather to worship.
Protest all you want, but it's not that confusing.

Fig newtons are delicious, but that's a whole 'nother discussion

14 posted on 03/31/2021 9:46:05 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Red Badger

From the comments I can tell people aren’t reading the article.
The basic concept is: instead of making the frame of a car stronger and heavier in order to carry a heavy battery, make the battery the structural frame of the car. This gets rid of the extra heavy frame and gets rid of the separate weight of the battery.

This will really make electric aircraft more efficient.


15 posted on 03/31/2021 9:47:24 AM PDT by toast
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Chinese steal in 3...2...1...


16 posted on 03/31/2021 9:50:28 AM PDT by steve8714 (Evidently the Oxford comma is racist, sexist, or homophobic. You decide which.)
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To: toast
Ford tried this with the Pinto in 1970


17 posted on 03/31/2021 9:50:36 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: toast
From the comments I can tell people aren’t reading the article.

Par for the course.................

18 posted on 03/31/2021 9:51:49 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: Hazwaste
I always wondered about those gizmos. Apparently, so did PM so they did some tests. The results were that, at best, these devices did nothing, while many actually reduced both horsepower and fuel efficiency.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a310/1802932/

19 posted on 03/31/2021 9:53:04 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: Red Badger

...could result in a battery that produces 75 Wh/kg


Unless they’ve got the units wrong, this doesn’t seem overly impressive to me.

75 Wh, at 100% efficiency will run a 0.1 hp motor for an hour.

A 100 kg battery using this technology would be able to run a 10 hp motor for an hour.

How is this supposed to be good?


20 posted on 03/31/2021 9:54:49 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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