A few weeks ago I was all pumped about nano-ultracapacitors for improving battery performance, but this development might come to fruition faster because it’s an improvement on existing technologies: using a matrix of nano-sized silicon wires in Lithium-Ion batteries to extend the life of the battery by a factor of 10.
As the press release says, silicon batteries were thought impractical because they could hold enough charge in a larger form. Now, by reducing the silicon to nano-wires, the amount of lithium that can be stored in a battery can be exponentially increased, and the nano-wires do not degrade over time. So a laptop battery could last for 20 hours instead of the usual 2-4.
Because the technologies are better understood, the researchers think the time-to-market will not be as long as other nanopower technologies.
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, just so we [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
