admin @ April 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
With a 6 Million dollar grant from the Department of Energy, Berkley Labs, with the help of a couple other Institutions, is working on extending the life of Lithium-Ion batteries.
What they are doing for the first time is to study the batteries at a microscopic level. The demand for lithium batteries lasting 10-15 years is [...]
admin @ April 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Today I’m going to complain a bit. Now I’m sure there are some brains out there working on this, however I’m in the mood to complain. I know how enamored we have become to our portable music I myself remember my Sony Walkman cassette player. Then I upgraded to the portable CD-player now I am [...]
admin @ April 21, 2008 # 2 Comments
Some intelligent people at the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre have come up with an interesting way to monitor people that have had head trauma. It is a portable EEG (Electroencephalography) system that looks somewhat like a stereo headset with miniature solar cells on it. They have managed to make a hybrid power supply by using the [...]
admin @ April 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I know I have been talking quite a bit about nanotubes in the last couple months. The truth of the matter is that we seem to be on the verge of a technological battery revolution. There are many companies researching carbon nanotubes in conjunction with batteries as these wonders have an amazing potential for what [...]
admin @ April 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Since Sony has been declared the winner in the High Definition format war, there are many companies scrambling to add this awesome new toy to our computers and laptops. Anyone that had the first generation of Blu-ray drives on their laptops knows that if you were going to play a Blu-ray disc you had better [...]
admin @ April 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The brains over at MIT have been trying to come up with a replacement technology to the good old battery. For the most part batteries really haven’t changed much since Alessandro Volta came up with the basic battery back in 1800. Granted there are many new chemistries, new materials, shapes and sizes. Now what MIT [...]
admin @ April 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Heliotron Energy over in Greece has been working on increasing the rather sad efficiency of Solar cells. The current efficiency rating is usually hovering around 12-14%. This however isn’t even going to come close to making a dent in our power supply needs.
Heliotron has been working hard and has actually hit a few milestones in [...]
