Posted on 03/31/2021 10:04:13 AM PDT by Red Badger
PERTH, Australia, March 31, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Strategic Elements Ltd (ASX:SOR) is pleased to announce that it has demonstrated the important potential for the self-charging Battery Ink cells to be 'scaled' down in size. Through scaling more batteries can be assembled in the same space leading to increased density and power output. The size of the Battery Ink cells were reduced from 1cm2 in previous work to 25mm2 achieving a four-times reduction in area. The team fabricated a prototype battery pack with twenty scaled-down connected Battery Ink cells which successfully produced a 14 volt output solely by harvesting moisture from the air.
The scaled-down twenty-cell Battery Ink pack producing 14V has the same surface area of the previous five cell prototype battery pack that produced 4V. The reduced size battery pack prototype was tested under open circuit for a 2 hour period. The highly advanced functional material contains hundreds of thousands of nanoscale sheets of a specialised graphene oxide material and it is a significant advancement to demonstrate scaling to this level so early in the development process.
Self-charging Battery Ink Technology
The Battery Ink technology differs significantly from current battery technologies that generally use a small number of alkaline or lithium battery cells to power electronics. The Battery Ink is being designed to be printed into a battery pack of a larger number of connected battery cells.
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From the day I first heard about the concept of “Graphene capacitors” I was thinking that would eventually replace batteries as we know them.
This looks to be a hybrid of that. And using moisture to generate electricity is awesome, especially in Kentucky, where I live. It’s probably less useful in Arizona. :)
Electrical perpetual motion device???
The technology is being designed to be a hybrid electric generator - battery cell fabricated with a printable ink. Development to date has been focused on voltage and the ability to harvest energy from humidity in the air.
“The potential ability for the high humidity levels of the human skin to be harvested by Battery ink cells and need for a less bulky and flexible power source make the electronic skin patch sector a natural fit for the Battery ink technology.”
Human batteries: The ink cells are just connectors that converts moisture into energy from the source (human sweat) aka Matrix Human Battery.
“Development to date has been focused on voltage and the ability to harvest energy from humidity in the air.”
Won’t we die if they remove all the humidity in the air?
Don’t tell me they can replace it because it wouldn’t be natural humidity and they couldn’t mirror the natural cycles of humidity.
Hey, if I cover my body with those, could they use enough energy to be a good weight loss plan? :)
“Won’t we die if they remove all the humidity in the air?”
Who said anything about removing all the humidity in the air?
Printed electronics in general will prove to be as big a step-change in technology as the integrated circuit.
This is PR, bought and paid for by guess who?
This sounds promising for northern, rainy and balmy climate areas where solar power is less efficient than dry desert climates. For these areas, solar + self recharging tech optimizes power generation.
Yeah. I’m not sure about this chemically. Self-recharging meaning it rebuilds a partial charge if not actually discharging?
“Who said anything about removing all the humidity in the air?”
Sort of tongue in cheek on my part. But won’t reducing it 50% or 25% or even 10$% have environmental impacts?
I think that the humidity will manage find its way back into the atmosphere eventually, somehow.
When I saw this headline I immediately thought of Chet99, free energy, and pitbulls.
Had to look to make sure this wasn’t the Bee. Very cool if true. Now all we need is a compact fusion reactor for EVs. Then maybe I’d sell the Bimmer and consider a Tesla. But probably not.
Does the condensed water just allow previously stored energy/electricity to flow like having a circuit which is completed when two contacts have some water between them?
What happens if condensation isn't enough and you just spritz some water on it?
Does it recharge when it dries? Or how else would it regenerate?
There are no perpetual motion machines. If this is able to produce energy, then it is getting it from somewhere.
“won’t reducing it 50% or 25% or even 10$% have environmental impacts?”
I don’t see any scenario where that happens. It will have a negligible impact because there is so much air in comparison to the amount processed and the humidity level changed.
Oh yes the Matrix. Great movie except for the concept of using humans as an energy source. Most people are too lazy to produce enough energy. Putting energy into nutrients and feeding it to humans is terribly inefficient. You would get more energy feeding nutrients to termites. Or yeasts. How about just skip the step and burn the nutrients in a furnace? It is no wonder Neo outsmarted the Matrix. Bad operating system. Bad software.
re: “Now all we need is a compact fusion reactor for EVs.”
A 150 kW output Hydrino-technology SunCell (tm) was demo’d this last February; that’s more than sufficient to power a car ... using atomic Hydrogen roughly a 200x improvement over simple ‘combustion’ with Oxygen is achieved. At that rate a gallon of gas could get you across America in your Corvair!
Demo replay 2-4-2021
“DC SunCell Demonstration”
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