http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/battery/ en-us Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:38:17 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414275/posts This figure shows the energy density and the power density of nano vacuum tubes in comparison to other energy storage devices. Credit: H?bler and Osuagwu. (PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists theorize that quantum phenomena could provide a major boost to batteries, with the potential to increase energy density up to 10 times that of lithium ion batteries. According to a new proposal, billions of nanoscale capacitors could take advantage of quantum effects to overcome electric arcing, an electrical breakdown phenomenon which limits the amount of charge that conventional capacitors can store. In their study, Alfred Hubler and Onyeama Osuagwu, both of the... PhysOrg http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2414275/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:38:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404852/posts Just how electric vehicles will change the world is an evolving debate, but one new analysis says that EVs and connected industries could be a $300 billion business by 2020 and create over a million jobs globally along the way. In the U.S., somewhere between 125,000 and 300,00 jobs could be created, with the higher number only being reached if the U.S. adopts more "concerted and aggressive efforts" to promote EVs. These predictions come from global management consulting firm PRTM and are based on widespread adoption of the recently-released Electrification Roadmap that ambitiously foresees BEVs and PHEVs making up a... autoblog.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404852/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:00:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401267/posts GARY, Ind. -- Authorities said an angry parent attacked a fourth-grade teacher with a stapler at a Gary school while students watched. Police arrested the woman shortly after the attack Thursday afternoon at Beveridge Elementary School. Gary Community School Corp. spokeswoman Sarita Stevens said the woman entered the school from an unlocked door. Stevens said the woman, who is expected to face assault charges, was upset over the teacher's disciplinary tactics with her child. Stevens said the teacher was treated for head wounds at a local hospital. A message requesting more information on the charges filed was left Saturday with... wkly.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401267/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 00:55:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2399643/posts WOLCOTT — A U.S. Postal Service letter carrier, assisted by two friends, delivered a strong message to a man accused of getting drunk at a house party and kissing a 10-year-old girl. Andy S. Markure, 28, of 10 Francis Drive, was at a party on County Road when he allegedly went into the bedroom of the 10-year-old, started whispering to her and then kissed her on the cheek, according to court documents obtained Wednesday. The party, on Sept. 5, was to celebrate the return of a friend from military service. During the party, Markure drank about 12 beers, he told... Waterbury Republican-American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2399643/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 21:28:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393503/posts ELECTRIC UTILITIES HAVE BECOME INCREASINGLY INTERESTED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE BENEFITS of energy storage systems. This has been influenced by advances in storage technologies as well as an increased need to buffer the adverse impacts of the rapidly increasing penetration of renewable energy resources. Advances in smart grid technologies are also helping utilities to aggregate and control distributed storage units as a very responsive and flexible fleet. A look at the historical deployment of energy storage in utilities indicates a migratory pattern from large central storage units to broadly distributed smaller systems. For decades, electric utilities have been storing... Transmission & Distribution World http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393503/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:22:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387256/posts EIN Presswire / The YESS Storage Battery is Your Energy Storage Solution! ERRA Incorporated, San Antonio, TX, USA has acquired all rights and patents to a breakthrough battery technology to be marketed as the YESS Battery from ERRA, Inc. "Our acquisition of this battery technology for all fields of use enables us to deploy the battery in hundreds of existing applications that will prove to be truly game changing. In addition to those existing markets, this battery will create new markets that did not previously exist. It will have significant impact for the entire clean / renewable energy industry." Jim... EINpresswire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387256/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:18:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2383763/posts Paradigm smasher This guy is going to ruin everything for the global warming/carbon tax crowd. Non-polluting cars that are high performance and fun? Tell me it ain't so Big Al (Gore). How are we supposed to wallow in "inconvenient truths" if trouble-makers like this mess things up by smoking the car companies with superior home brew engineering? Remember, the personal computer was the creation of a bunch of unfunded individuals, not the military-industrial complex. www.brasschecktv.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2383763/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:41:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2374440/posts The Swiss company ReVolt, from Staefa, plans to release the new batteries next year, initially as small batteries for use in hearing aids, and later for cell phones. Eventually much larger batteries are planned for electric vehicles. The new battery was developed in Trondheim in Norway by the SINTEF Group, the largest independent research institution in Scandinavia, and ReVolt was formed to market the device. Zinc-air batteries need oxygen from the air to generate the current. They are safer than lithium-ion batteries because they do not contain volatile materials, and therefore do not catch fire. Non-rechargeable zinc-air batteries have been... physorg http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2374440/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:30:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364003/posts Link only due to copyright............. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/10/biodiesel-hybrid-bu/ www.wired.com/autopia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364003/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:10:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363309/posts A new kind of portable electrochemical battery that can produce thousands of hours of power - and soon replace the expensive regular or rechargeable batteries in hearing aids and sensors and eventually in cellphones, laptop computers and even electric cars - has been developed at Haifa's Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. The unique battery is based on silicon as a fuel that reverts to its original sand. The battery can also be left on the shelf for years and inserted into a device to provide immediate power. It was developed over the last two-and-a-half years by Prof. Yair Ein-Eli of the... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363309/posts#comment Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:51:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360780/posts (snip> Now comes word that nuclear batteries may actually become an honest-to-God reality, no foolin'. Researchers at the University of Missouri say they've achieved the unthinkable, and that a pint-sized power cell based on radioactive decay can last a ridiculously long time: a million times as long as a conventional battery, enough to keep putting out a charge for hundreds of years. Nuclear batteries already exist, but historically they have been quite large (and used only on things like spacecraft). The new design involves the use of a liquid semiconductor, which is less susceptible to damage from nuclear radiation than... Yahoo Tech http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360780/posts#comment Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:37:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2341737/posts Algae, paper and salt-water are the key components of thin and flexible new batteries, report Swedish researchers. Cellulose obtained from the bright green Cladophora algae proved to be key to the project, as it boasts a unique nanostructure with a high surface area. Although the batteries have lower voltage and power density than conventional batteries, their low cost and flexibility hold great promise for applications where metal-based batteries are impractical. The research is the product of a collaboration between two teams at Uppsala University in Sweden: Maria Strømme's group, who identified the potential of the algal cellulose, and Leif Nyholm's group, who... Chemistry World http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2341737/posts#comment Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:27:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2327106/posts ALERT ALERTThe LG battery that was in my wife's Verizon cellphone shorted out and became EXTREMELY HOT TO THE TOUCH and causing other items in the purse to get HOT. The battery is an LG Lithium Ion 3.7v 1000mAh, part number of LGIP-520B We contacted Verizon and I put a report into the Consumer Product Safety Commision website. I couldn't find anything online about this problem with this battery. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2327106/posts#comment Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:16:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2318430/posts In a modest building on the west side of Salt Lake City, a team of specialists in advanced materials and electrochemistry has produced what could be the single most important breakthrough for clean, alternative energy since Socrates first noted solar heating 2,400 years ago. The battery breakthrough comes from a Salt Lake company called Ceramatec, the R&D arm of CoorsTek, a world leader in advanced materials and electrochemical devices. Inside Ceramatec's wonder battery is a chunk of solid sodium metal mated to a sulphur compound by an extraordinary, paper-thin ceramic membrane. The membrane conducts ions -- electrically charged particles --... Daily Herald (Utah) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2318430/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:37:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316403/posts Conservation: The Chevy Volt is said to be able to get 230 miles per gallon. That's if it's continually plugged into a fragile and overburdened power grid. Where will you be when the lights go out? Since most U.S. electricity generation is not carbon-free, the Congressional Research Service agrees. The "widespread adoption of plug-in hybrid vehicles through 2030 may have only a small effect on, and might actually increase, carbon emissions," it observes. "If you are using coal-fired power plants and half the country's electricity comes from coal powered plants, are you just trading one greenhouse gas emitter for another?"... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316403/posts#comment Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:51:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2305153/posts We've been closely following EEStor's potentially game-changing ultracapacitor--a technology that could allow for electric cars that charge almost instantaneously and drive hundreds of miles on a single charge. And if a purportedly "leaked" phone conversation from EEStor CEO Richard Weir currently making the rounds is legit, the long-in-development ultracapacitor has hit a breakthrough, and could be unveiled within months. ... EEStor's ultracapacitor works more or less exactly like the capacitors found in electronics today, briefly holding and releasing small charges, only on a much larger scale; it would be able rapidly take on enough juice to power a car for... Popular Science http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2305153/posts#comment Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:47:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2299558/posts Kindest and warmest regards to wasmaba, for his financial support! First / raw / initial draft. Certain to be some errors, mistakes, ommissions, typos and various other flaws. http://video.yahoo.com/watch/5577862/14646725 Audio .mp3 provided courtesy of smackYYZ and "Audacity" software. W: is Dick Weir I: is Interviewer, unknown, at time of transcribing W: Well, ahh, the basic building block that we use here and that both Carl and I have extensive knowledge of is Composition Modified Barium Titanate powder. 0:10 Well known the best powders of the highest permittivity of any materials in the world. Although they have some very significant problems.... THEEESTORY.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2299558/posts#comment Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:05:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288463/posts Alternative Energy: A government report says reliance on electric cars will do little to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and may merely shift our dependence on foreign sources from one set of dictators to another..."If you are using coal-fired power plants, and half the country's electricity comes from coal-powered plants, are you just trading one greenhouse gas emitter for another?" asks Mark Gaffigan, co-author of the GAO report. The report itself notes: "Reductions in CO2 emissions depend on generating electricity used to charge the vehicles from lower-emission sources of energy." IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288463/posts#comment Thu, 9 Jul 2009 00:07:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259049/posts Science 22 May 2009: Vol. 324. no. 5930, pp. 1051 - 1055 DOI: 10.1126/science.1171541 Fabricating Genetically Engineered High-Power Lithium-Ion Batteries Using Multiple Virus Genes Yun Jung Lee,1,* Hyunjung Yi,1,* Woo-Jae Kim,2 Kisuk Kang,3,4 Dong Soo Yun,1 Michael S. Strano,2 Gerbrand Ceder,1 Angela M. Belcher1,5,$ ABSTRACT Development of materials that deliver more energy at high rates is important for high-power applications, including portable electronic devices and hybrid electric vehicles [obligatory green reference]. For lithium-ion (Li+) batteries, reducing material dimensions can boost Li+ ion and electron transfer in nanostructured electrodes. By manipulating two genes, we equipped viruses with peptide groups having affinity... Science Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259049/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 14:53:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2257435/posts I just made a stupid mistake. I connected the positve to the negative and vise versa in my boat... The alternator smoked...after reversing the cables, totally dead. Question; Did I only damage the alternator or did I fry the electrical system? I feel like an idiot doing this to my boat on Memorial weekend http://www.freerepublic.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2257435/posts#comment Sun, 24 May 2009 19:42:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250384/posts WASHINGTON, May 13, 2009 – The Army’s Advanced Automotive Battery Initiative is searching for the “holy grail” of power technology: an inexpensive, lightweight and reliable battery. “Collaboration is very important, in my opinion,” Sonja Gargies, energy storage team leader for the Army’s Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, told listeners during an “Armed with Science: Research and Applications for the Modern Military” webcast May 6 on Pentagon Web Radio. “I don’t see how one agency alone can accomplish the goal of a more energy efficient world.” Academia and industry, along with the Defense and Energy departments, need to... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250384/posts#comment Wed, 13 May 2009 23:40:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249574/posts has unveiled plans to build a $100 million battery manufacturing plant in eastern New York state for a newly formed battery business. The announcement was made at GE’s (NSYE: GE) Global Research Center near Albany. GE is partnering with the state of New York in building the $100 million in the plant that will be located in a yet-undetermined site in the Albany region. It will create 350 jobs—being labeled "green-collar" jobs—and thousands more in the supply chain, GE said. ge http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249574/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 22:03:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229288/posts FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — Police are checking surveillance video as they try to identify people who beat a man at the Federal Way Transit Center. The 32-year-old Kent man was waiting for a bus Tuesday night when he asked another man to quiet down. The Kent man was knocked down and beaten. He was treated for a broken jaw and other facial bones at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Seattle Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229288/posts#comment Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:02:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225688/posts A group of young men severely beat a Kent man late Tuesday at the Federal Way Transit Center after he told one of them to lower his voice, police said Wednesday. The Kent man, 32, was waiting for a bus about 11 p.m. when he asked a loud youth to quiet down, police said. In response, several males in their teens or early 20s walked up to the man and one hit him in the face. The two began to fight and others in the group joined in. After the Kent man was knocked to the ground, the attackers ran... News Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225688/posts#comment Thu, 9 Apr 2009 16:49:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2228060/posts Viral Batteries: A Case for Evolution? by Brian Thomas, M.S.* Researchers at MIT have invented a “greener” battery with the help of viruses. Three years ago, they engineered a virus that coats itself with material that serves as an anode, a structure within a battery that attracts positive ions. They have now engineered a virus (bacteriophage) that serves as a cathode, which indirectly links to the anode to help make the battery functional. The result is a battery with little impact on the environment. National Public Radio (NPR) ran a report on its Morning Edition that compared the development of... ICR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2228060/posts#comment Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:14:12 GMT