20 yrs you say?

[Meatwad]

" Using tiny titanium dioxide nanotubes rather than graphite also speeds how quickly electrons and ions flow in and out of the battery, by ditching an energy-slowing additive needed in today’s batteries."

Breakthrough batteries last 20 years, charge 70 percent in two minutes | Macworld

Wonder if these may trickle into other industries...

 

[EeePee]

I hope so. Already licensing, too. Good. Hope it happens.

 

[Duuuuuuuude]

I loves me some nanotubes.

 

[EeePee]

microgoat made me a chassis he named the nanotube. For TLT axles, and it suspended a Stampede transmission from the top, and the lower links mounted to the lower suspension pivots built into the transmission. He was living in the future.

 

[Duuuuuuuude]

I think I've seen that one. The old stick chassis' were cool.

 

[binaryterror]

Between this and graphene things are getting finally moving on storage and charging technologies.

 

[Meatwad]

Dem nanotubes doe.

Stick chassis' were the beginning!

 

[JohnRobHolmes]

Now all we need is 30 amp chargers so our 1ah packs can be charged in two minutes.

 

[wings_of_fire]

 

[Meatwad]

Now all we need is 30 amp chargers so our 1ah packs can be charged in two minutes.

Oh yeah. Hopefully in the future the battery advancements will push innovation.

 

[BigSki]

Now all we need is 30 amp chargers so our 1ah packs can be charged in two minutes.

You mean that you don't already have a working prototype??

 

[wings_of_fire]

I found this. Seems pretty practical until fuel is available.

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[JohnRobHolmes]

Well, I do have one charger that will push 32 amps into a 3s pack. And it is a prototype that I'm testing for another company. Good guess BigSki :lol:

 

[EeePee]

I'll just hook up my 45 amp power supply to the positive and negative and count to 120.

 

[Hunter711]

BloomBox competition?
Could This Be the Fuel Cell to Beat All Fuel Cells? : Greentech Media

 

[wings_of_fire]

BloomBox competition?
Could This Be the Fuel Cell to Beat All Fuel Cells? : Greentech Media

I read someone is suing bloombox. Stakes are quite high in that area. Tony Stark will level them all:ror:

 

[Hunter711]

I read someone is suing bloombox. Stakes are quite high in that area.

Bloom Energy Begins Fuel Cell Production in Delaware : Greentech Media

 

[Dostradamas]

Bloom Energy Begins Fuel Cell Production in Delaware : Greentech Media

That article is over a year old.

The Oregon company is bankrupt.
ClearEdge Power: 'No reasonable option' except pursuing bankruptcy, closing Connecticut operations | OregonLive.com
Bunk fundraising BS
People are pocketing enormous amounts of money chasing unproven technology for fools.


As long as millions of dollars are thrown at it anything is a "viable" concept.
Oregon seems to love to throw money away.
"Just tell us your idea, and we'll vote for it..."

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Yahoo is Bloom Energy’s latest customer | SiliconBeat

The levelized cost of Bloom’s fuel cells, per the consultants hired by
the Delaware Public Service Commission to evaluate the Delaware Bloom
feed-in tariff, is $215.00 per megawatt hour. Want more information?
The fuel cells are only 47% efficient based on almost two years of
operational data in Delaware. Because of this, they emit far more CO2
and VOC than competing combustion technologies – at 4 times the price!
$215/MW equals 21.5 cents/kw including the cost of the natural gas.
Maybe Yahoo has a source of FREE landfill methane gas to lower the cost? Conventional gas/turbines can generate electricity for as little as 5 cents/kw wholsale.

 

[Dostradamas]

" Using tiny titanium dioxide nanotubes rather than graphite also speeds how quickly electrons and ions flow in and out of the battery, by ditching an energy-slowing additive needed in today’s batteries."

Breakthrough batteries last 20 years, charge 70 percent in two minutes | Macworld

Wonder if these may trickle into other industries...

Article is over a year old and this is one of the comments I loved from yesterday.

"Write about it when it's on store shelves, then you'll get me excited."

 

[JohnRobHolmes]

I just realized that titanium dioxide batteries have been on the market already, some fellows in the ebike world who are connected with the inventor have been using them for three years. They have about the same energy density as nimh, so you will have about 1/4 the runtime of a normal lipo weight for weight. The voltage profile is 1.5v to 1.8v per cell depending on anode and cathode mix.

In short, they were tested and discarded as too heavy for the runtime and cost as compared to lipo and liFe chemistries. If this was put into your phone you would have to recharge 3 to 4 times as often, so it better be able to recharge fast!