New “Micro-Batteries” Show Great Potential, Now The Most Powerful Batteries On The Planet

Clean Technica ^ | April 17, 2013 | "Nathan"

[Still Thinking]

As a technical person, I am skeptical of a battery only a few millimeters in size which can jump start a car. And if a tiny battery can put out 600+ amps, I don’t want it in my pocket. What is it, antimatter?

And where on your phone do you hook the 4AWG wires? Or does this technology render 26AWG conductors capable of carrying enough current to start your car?

I used to work in an industry where there was a lot of large gauge extremely flexible cable, perfect for homemade jumper cables. So people would steal enough to make themselves a set, and the boss (not owner, just department boss) did the same. So he calls the engineer one night cause his car won't start and yes, he's even tried using the super-duper stolen jumpers with no effect. So the engineer goes out there and the guy had just trailed the "magic" cables out along the ground. And they didn't help! Amazing! Apparently he thought the cables MADE the energy to start the car or something.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Instead of bigger batteries, a metric crap-ton of smaller batteries that take no time to recharge, but with a large quantity of them, a long time to discharge. Interesting thought!"

Given the matrix geometry, it might also mean that the individual small cells could be spaced suffiently far apart that a failure of a single cell couldn't set off a "chain reaction" among the other cells.

[muawiyah]

No doubt the cost curve on these devices will bottom out pretty near modern gunpowder in terms of power per cubic cc ~ which will mean we can eliminate 'fire arms' and go to smaller, more concealable, more powerful weapons as cheap as Saturday Night specials.

Beef up the point of your finger with maybe a layered iron matrix interspersed with graphene and hook that up to these microbatteries spaced out in the long bones of your hand.

Just wave your hand at your enemies (to give the microprocessor in your thumb an idea of where you want to aim) then POINT and shoot!

Some of the details will need to be worked out, but there's an awful lot of long bones to stash these things (or their even more powerful successors) in!

[muawiyah]

Thought I'd see how this thread is going ~ just to make sure it's still here.

Occurred to me just last evening that this type of battery is just the ticket to weapons systems that carry target destroying energy in the form of electrons rather than chemicals, or kinetic energy in a heavy lead projectile.

You'd need little in the way of a 'firing station' to launch these batteries at any target ~ a small DRONE, maybe a bumble bee sized drone, could deliver a battery bomb on target. Those 3D printers could churn out all sorts of mounting brackets for deceptive launchpads and you'd never even know you were inside the perimeter of a pretty deadly 'mine field'.

I think the nature of war just changed a whole big bunch ~ and this will probably be the last article we see about this class of battery, or its competitor designed by that young woman who just won the national science fair.

Your basic AR15 could be turned into a really outstanding launch pad for delivery of bunkerbusters!