Sensible Erection | Death of the battery

Monday, 8 February 2010

quote [ The battery, which has powered our lives for generations, may soon be consigned to the dustbin of history.

British scientists say they have created a plastic that can store and release electricity, revolutionizing the way we use phones, drive cars - and even wear clothes. ]

Cool.

http://www.holytaco.com/25-crazy-pizzas

[sci&tech] [by JOECAM@10:31pmGMT] [+10 Interesting]

Comments

ahPook said @ 10:36pm GMT on 8th Feb
... you love this stuffed crust?

cb361 said @ 10:41pm GMT on 8th Feb
No goatse pizza?

happyman said @ 11:01pm GMT on 8th Feb
mmm goatcheese pizza.

Krutz said @ 11:07pm GMT on 8th Feb [Score:1 WTF]

symmetrian said @ 11:20pm GMT on 8th Feb
Why are some of these just "crazy pizza" photoshops?

blackpsypher said @ 11:45pm GMT on 8th Feb
Q: What do the gynecologist and the Pizza deliveryman have in common?
A: They both get to smell the goods but neither one of them can eat it.

Chop-Logik said @ 11:50pm GMT on 8th Feb [Score:2]
Blah blah blah something about being wrist deep in cheese blah

Naruki said @ 12:02am GMT on 9th Feb
Sorry, best compromise mod I could find for +1 Disgusting.

damnit said @ 12:05am GMT on 9th Feb
If this involves peeing into it, no thanks.

Spaceloaf said @ 12:11am GMT on 9th Feb
I don't want to eat pizza with you.

sacrelicious said @ 12:14am GMT on 9th Feb
isn't that just a battery?

benjamander said @ 12:19am GMT on 9th Feb
A battery is a series of cells that each undergo a chemical reaction to create a difference in voltage.

This is a capacitor.

damnit said @ 3:19am GMT on 9th Feb
They just need to attach a glowing Y-shaped wire to create the Flux Capacitor.

teknokracy said @ 7:57am GMT on 9th Feb
It will be when they get smart and sandwich 20 of them together.

backSLIDER said @ 8:33am GMT on 9th Feb
So a lead acid batter like your car goes dead in roughly 8 months.
NiCd batteries in long-term storage are typically stored fully discharged. But last for a decent amount of time with a full charge and don't lose a lot or EMF (voltage) until they are almost dead.
Caps don't hold a charge very well for very long.

damnit said @ 12:18am GMT on 9th Feb [Score:3 Funny]
Angry Ginger Kid back again with scary hip-hop background music through youtube doubler

Krutz said @ 12:28am GMT on 9th Feb
I wonder if this could be somehow combined with the Nokia tech (supposedly in development) that's geared to power their devices via ambient radio waves.

yevishere said @ 1:41am GMT on 9th Feb
People have been working on super capacitors forever. They all have some sort of a problem. Let me know when it is available in a store.

maryyugo said @ 1:50am GMT on 9th Feb
I hope the developers aren't holding their breath until it's ready for market.

hippoh said @ 1:52am GMT on 9th Feb
While I think it's great that long-known, basic, technologies receive recent innovation, I don't appreciate sensationalist hyperbole headlines based on an extreme case of what may happen, in the future. Gimme substance bros, broskis.

genesplicer said @ 2:31am GMT on 9th Feb
Taco toooown!

endopol said @ 3:04am GMT on 9th Feb
Death of the battery? A dead battery can light an led for 20 minutes.

gunthar said @ 4:23am GMT on 9th Feb [Score:1 Funny]
BATTERY NOT CAPACITOR FUCK I HATE THESE ANTI SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES

Naruki said @ 5:42am GMT on 9th Feb
UN NOT ANTI FUCK I HATE THESE ILLITERATE RANTS

Dissonant said @ 1:58am GMT on 11th Feb
FUCK I HATE FUCK FUCK

EtOH said @ 5:38am GMT on 9th Feb
Did it say it could power an LED for 20 minutes? Can't you power LED's on pretty much dead batteries?

ckfahrenheit said @ 5:44am GMT on 9th Feb
hell I can light LEDs by putting them next to my head and getting angry

EPT said @ 6:26am GMT on 9th Feb
Um... it is still a battery, isn't it?

EPT said @ 8:55am GMT on 9th Feb
Ah, I see that's been answered up there ^^^

maryyugo said @ 6:49am GMT on 9th Feb
The inventor has been arrested. He was charged with assault on a battery.

swiggy said @ 7:00am GMT on 9th Feb

PontifexPrimus said @ 9:06am GMT on 9th Feb [Score:1 Insightful]
They contradict themselves:
"It's not a battery, it's a capacitor" - "it consists of carbon fiber layers separated by fiberglass covered in a conductive resin": if it is a capacitor it needs a dielectric, an insulator between the two sheets, otherwise it won't hold a charge.
"The material charges and discharges electricity quicker than a conventional battery": no shit, ever shorted out a large capacitor? It goes *flash* and turns whatever you put across the contacts into metallic vapor. Since it's not a chemical process slowed down by the molecules undergoing a reaction as in a battery it is practically instantaneous; I would not really want to line my car with those things as they describe. Imagine getting a ding in your door and discharging a car battery's worth of energy in a fraction of a second at the point where the two layers touch...

Garibaldi said @ 3:23pm GMT on 9th Feb
I want to tell people about this but I'd have to link to a Daily Mail article. What would Jesus do?

Mr_Rose said @ 6:59pm GMT on 9th Feb
He might link them to the
Imperial College page describing the research, instead of the newspaper article which missed part of the point.