Update On Battery Advancement... Not Much New To Report

from the bottlenecks... dept

Thu, Jan 5th 2006 12:38am — Mike Masnick

Power is increasingly an issue for all these mobile devices you're expected to own these days, and every once in a while we see yet another story about advancements in battery technology. The latest story? There's basically nothing new to report at all. Everyone's looking, but the advancements remain incremental. Meanwhile, other types of advancements that promised to help haven't done very much either. Fuel cells have yet to prove anything, and for various reasons may never get as far as fuel cell believers predict. In the meantime, it seems like looking at other issues, such as decreased power consumption and faster charges may be more fruitful short-term pursuits. However, if this proliferation of gadgetry continues, there needs to be some kind of real breakthrough.

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Tyshaun, 5 Jan 2006 @ 9:41am

The Heat is on!
I wish more research is carried out in lower power consumption devices, if for nothing else, the heat generated from the wasted energy is really annoying. My laptop actually causes my lap to burn and my cell phone can actually act as a hands warmer after a long use. I know that a lot of that heat is wasted power given off in the form of heat. Maybe we can do a better job developing devices with less impedence and more efficient power utilization, before we have to start distributing asbestos gloves with laptops (or water cooling kits).
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nunya bidness, 5 Jan 2006 @ 9:52am

No Subject Given
dude, there is a car that runs on water, man, and the goverment doesn't want us to know about it.
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  Mmmm
  I like cake.
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- nihilist00, 4 Jun 2008 @ 9:45am
  
  Re: No Subject Given
  yes there is also a secret governement aeroplane that runs off Weed man.. but they dont want civilians making them cause you get so fuckin high. it also has anti gravity. they made it out of dead aliens.. 51 man .. dude thats why they dont want you to know about area 51 .. because the aliens are realy secret government aircraft. with space weed .. gets you fucked up dude
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jdw242, 5 Jan 2006 @ 10:40am

lower power devices
if nothing else, the replacing of hard drives with flash drives will make the battery life go up.

See the link: http://tinyurl.com/cbeo6
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Ben McNelly, 5 Jan 2006 @ 10:44am

nothing to see here... move along
Ok, so you would admit your writing an artical to say that there is an artical supposed to be about news, but theres realy no new news, so its kind of pointless.... ah, like writing an artical with no real news, unless no news is news???

not trolling, just trying to understand. If we must talk about batteries, even though nothing has realy changed, I agree... Its about time someone invinted a better battery. I will put it on my to-do list. Happy?
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- Rikko, 5 Jan 2006 @ 11:13am
  
  Re: nothing to see here... move along
  The "artical" was a state of the industry type of article. You know how sometimes no news is good news? In this case not having any news speaks volumes about how we've reached the limits of our battery technology and until a quantum leap breakthrough will find us a new route.
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