You can go ahead and add the market for nano-enabled batteries among those within the battery industry currently being forecast to see substantial growth in the coming years. Last week, a report by the independent electronic research and advisory firm Lux Research stated the expected growth of the current $19 million thin-battery market would put [...]
The short answer: No. The chances of having a lithium-ion battery explode on you are less than your chances of having a coconut fall on your head or falling prey to a shark-attack. However, as we’ve seen in several instances around the world, every once in a great while there is the case of a [...]
Apparently Dell has decided to take a page out of Apple’s book with it’s soon to be released Adamo. Aside from the sleek design featured by the Adamo, the battery, which claims around a 5 hour life-span, has been made to be non-removable by the user. So basically if your battery cracks out for some [...]
Samsung just announced a new addition to it’s family, as the NC310 is set for global release sometime in the months ahead (So far releases have been slated for Germany in April and the U.K. in May, nothing official yet for the U.S.). The new mini-notebook comes in 4 fairly interesting colors on the outside [...]
“Little attention has been given to massive electricity storage that is a key to making the use of renewable energy possible on a broad scale. In America today, there is an almost total absence of public awareness of the need.” -American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICE) The ability to harness and disperse energy taken from [...]
Citing a number of environmental factors, the European Union is currently considering a directive that would essentially aim to push Apple into incorporating removable batteries on products such as iPhones and iPods that go into Europe. While they state that their purpose isn’t to tell Apple how they should design their product, the EU states that removable [...]
While some natural resources of energy are more efficient and practical than others, it’s good to know that there are many different ways of pulling electricity from all that mother nature has to offer. Falling in the “less efficient but fun to use” category would be the use of a regular old lemon to power [...]
“It’always nice to get out of Washington for a little bit, recharge your batteries.” And with that play on words, President Barack Obama began his address to an audience gathered at the Edison Electric Vehicle Technical Center in Ponoma, Ca. The purpose? To tout his $2.4 billion in federal money for advanced battery research and [...]
The big issue with making the use of solar power more common has always been centered around what to do once day turns to night. How do we harness and store that energy in order to keep the lights on once the sun goes down? While that question remains to be answered in a way [...]
Fully charging your cell phone battery in the time it takes you to have a cup of coffee? That’s what Gerbrand Ceder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) states could come as a result of the recent breakthrough in lithium ion technology orchestrated by his team of scientists. As we mentioned in a previous post, [...]
