“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 [...]
North America will soon have on market the first full line of portable DC battery chargers from Honda Motors, thanks in large part to Honda’s appointment of Alten Battery Chargers Inc. as its OEM partner on this proposal. Unlike an AC generator paired with a slow plug-in charger, ALTEN Battery Chargers are a fast and [...]
In what many are calling a response to Samsung’s Blue Earth, LG recently unveiled their own version of a solar-powered cellular phone at the 2009 Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, Spain. While LG showed off the solar phone and battery case at the MWC, they weren’t able to release a name on the product, as [...]
At first glance, urine-powered rechargeable batteries such as the NoPoPo are typically looked upon as a joke or some sort of gimmick. If you’ve seen any one of the hundreds of articles surrounding this technology, you’re probably aware of the 6th grade bathroom humor approach many have taken in covering this new type of battery. [...]
Inventor Knut Karlsen has released a prototype for a new kind of rechargeable battery, one that recharges itself with a little help from the sun. Karlsen is calling it the SunCat, and with the consciousness of the planet turning green, the demand for earth friendly products such as this is growing fast. With Suncat, electric [...]
Designer Metin Giousouf has designed a low-tech solution for a quick, convenient way to recharge your electric car battery that is done in a couple of minutes. With the current technology, it can take up to a couple of hours to get your car charged. However with this new concept, a drive through recharge station, [...]
“The battery race will be decided in the next decade” Wolf-Henning Scheider, Robert Bosch- President of Gasoline Systems “European and Asian suppliers will fight a head-to-head battle in lithium-ion technology” Karl-Thomas Neumann, CEO- Continental Heavy words are being used as the competition to effectively manufacture lithium ion batteries, especially for automobiles, continues to heat up. [...]
The need for new, renewable energy sources has us looking high and low, and in places that many would never even begin to think of. One of the latest energy-harnessing technologies being talked about is the discovery made by a group of MIT undergraduates of a way to recover energy that is lost from vehicle [...]
A 20 yr. old Chinese man is dead after the battery inside his cellular phone, which he was unfortunately carrying inside of his chest pocket, exploded unexpectedly Sunday evening. Because of the location of the phone upon explosion, the young man’s vital arteries were severed, resulting in massive blood loss and leaving the young man [...]
I recently purchased a Seidio Innocell 1500mAh OEM sized extended battery for my Sprint HTC Touch Diamond hoping to find that it would make a difference with the life of my phone, basically because the battery that comes with the phone only gives me about 9 hours of usage and I was needing more. I [...]
