Re: Battery breakthrough


"Svenne" <tvaerskaegg@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:fgj415hosb3f4cdqkd2d821cpeisn5am75@xxxxxxxxxx
On Mon, 18 May 2009 23:20:08 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax
<dirk.bruere@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

With 3x conventional Li battery capacity this would make the electric
car viable for most people. Combine it with another nanotech method of
fabricating electrodes and charge rate is almost 100x

Combined with supercapacitors to make possible high energy
acceleration bursts and recycle braking energy, this does bring all
electric cars much closer.

But it still leaves the problem of charging the batteries. How fast
can such a battery accept a charge? And even if a battery will accept
a very high charge current, delivering hundreds of amps at the
charging point is impractical.



I've lost count of the number of 'amazing breakthroughs' that I've read about over the last 60 years, they usually contain a statement something like "it is reckoned that within another 5 to 10 years", which in my book usually means, never to be heard of ever again.
A couple of favourite ones over the last 50 years.. Unlimited supplies of clean electricity, too cheap to meter.. A revolutionary new cure for cancer, wonder drug which targets and destroys individual cancer cells, leaving healthy tissue totally unaffected.






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