New Laptop Battery Technologies @ The TechZone

Lincoln Russell 7 Jun, 2006 at 1:03pm ET Article published in Tech

The TechZone looks at Micro Fuel and Photovoltaic Solar Cells

Micro fuel cells can use such fuels as alcohol or methanol and offers ten times the power of conventional batteries using only 1/20th the weight. Perfectly suited for laptops or notebook computers. It actually burns fuel which can be quickly replenished by merely refilling its reservoir or replacing a fresh fuel cartridge. As everyone knows, recharging a conventional cell battery takes hours, this new battery will only take seconds to recharge or rather refuel.

Source: The TechZone

Comments

7 Jun 2006 ~ 1:23pm RWB I'd spend good money on a battery that lasts 10 times longer... that'd be 30 hours of battery life on my laptop!
7 Jun 2006 ~ 1:53pm drasnor zomg teh ozona layer! teh trees! fuel is teh earth mother's blood spilt for yuo!

On another note, I can just see those old Pentium 4 laptops with aftermarket fuel cells spontaneously combusting.

-drasnor
7 Jun 2006 ~ 2:51pm Sledgehammer70 or at 100% power we could get 5 hours of life instead on 1 1/2
7 Jun 2006 ~ 11:38pm airbornflght well, if it runs on etanol, there is a little do-hicky that will make all that you will ever want, all you gotta do is feed it sugar and corn, and put some yeast in it. That is almost like perpetual energy.

But you know what, on another topic, I was thinking today about how energy/matter/anything is never created or destroyed, only changed in form, that would mean that we already have perpetual energy, just on a very large scale. HAH HAH, I HAVE CONQUERED PERPETUAL ENERGY< GIVE ME MY NOBEL BIATCH

Apparently this is an idiotic statement that further proves my ignorance, so it has been removed.
8 Jun 2006 ~ 2:54pm Animal

airbornflght wrote:

NOTE TO THE IDIOTS: This is not the actually process to making moonshine, if you seriously think that all you have to do is dump a can of corn in a pot, throw a cup of sugar on top, and sprinkle yeast on top, then you really need to re-evalulate your education, and possible consider hopping out of the gene pool.

what the hell are you talking about. Every post of yours make me think you are more of an idiot. Take note to your own advice.
8 Jun 2006 ~ 6:36pm airbornflght

-animal- wrote:

what the hell are you talking about. Every post of yours make me think you are more of an idiot. Take note to your own advice.

Um, I was talking about the scientific process of fermenting corn grain into ethyl alcohol.

Wow, okay, im gonna take that as a flame. but I'm going to take my time and think of how I want to deal with this. I am far from an idiot. but no, I will not respond to your troll antics, I will count to 10.

I dont appreciate being called an idiot.:sad2:
8 Jun 2006 ~ 8:05pm Linc animal, relax man. He's young.

airborn, animal has significant cred as a web developer and I don't believe he's in high school. Posting a report card does nothing but highlight your youth, and you're strutting your technical competence to someone who has been asked by several members (including Brian, kanezfan, and citrixmeta, I believe) to do work for them - it doesn't look good. animal's comment was clearly out of line and far harsher than necessary, but that wasn't an appropriate response either.

All that aside, it does look like you finished the year on a strong note, so cheers for that.

No more unkind words in this thread please (or elsewhere, for that matter). Contact me via PM if you want to say more. The topic here is laptop batteries.
9 Jun 2006 ~ 1:02pm Animal i apologise for going over the top, i was especially irritated at the time and your post sent me over the edge! Again, sorry.
9 Jun 2006 ~ 1:46pm airbornflght It cool.

I went "a little over the top" about a week ago on a uninformed intel fan.