| (OT - well for the moment) New efficient batteries [message #251024] |
Fri, 30 May 2014 12:41  |
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Dear Friends,
Normally, I don't promote "wild" ideas to a public forum but after checking to see this wasn't some April Fools joke or sophisticated internet hoax, I thought this would be of sufficient interest for its *potential* as applied to our house batteries at least. I found sufficient coverage of this in mainstream and scientific literature to suggest it's for real.
In a nutshell, some bright folks out of Kyushu University have worked out how to use organic carbon to make a battery. A battery that, while massing the same as a current battery, hold many times the power and charge far faster. Unlike current batteries, it uses no rare earth elements and would have an easy "cradle to grave" cycle - its essentially made of a cotton derivative.
I am not getting too excited about it powering our coaches down the road right away, but its potential to let us measure our dry camping capacity in days rather than hours is, I think, exciting. Think about charging your house battery in less than an hour and then going for 2 days on the charge . . .
http://www.powerjapanplus.com/about/news.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/the-organic-carbon-battery-from-japan-that-could-spawn-the-next-tesla/362112/
There are many other links out there...
Hope this might of some interest to my GMC friends out there.
John
John Novicki
near Gettysburg, Pa
Looking for Glenbrook Yellow Plaid Material
'75 Glenbrook 26' "Bumble"
'86 300SL
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