'Batteries are holding back the portable revolution,' says the CEO of a firm that's developing an answer: a pocket-size fuel cell.
Comment: PS I bought the www.3gjuice.com and the Mophie. 3gjuice has more energy for the bucks, Mophie is more stylish. Love them both.
Comment: Can't wait til those guys are done! If you have an iPhone, there is hope now. Check http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/07/18/several-backup-batteries-can-extend-your-daily-iphone-3g-use?bub .
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Comment: Can you carry butane on an airplane? It doesn't help much to have your recharger in checked luggage. Why not replace the battery with a PEM fuel cell that runs at a lower temperature and uses a tiny cylinder of methanol or hydrogen, both of which are FAA approved.
Comment: How about just reading a freaking book until the plane lands?
Comment: Who cares about polluting the earth? We can't kill this planet, we can only kill ourselves. But until we do, I want smaller and cheaper batteries that last longer. Solar is for sissies. I want a combination of acid and mercury, and maybe plutonium.
Thank you,
The Real Al Gore
Comment: Try shopping in North Korea for the kind of batteries you want.
Comment: True, but you know what's all over North Korea? Pepperoni and Cat Pizza.
Comment: It all sounds like an energy breakthrough. But is it "green"? Not when you think they have not made them re-usable, but get tossed out by the millions or billions over the years. Unless they come with a redeemable recycling fee paid. They need to figure out how to keep this huge new source of chemicals from polluting our earth, air and water.
Comment: It doesn't really matter how you dispose of things like this. Everything we use every day is natural. It came from somewhere on this planet so unless they are building batteries from materials we have taken from outer space... dispose of these things anywhere you want. As long as they remain on earth, they have been returned from whence they came. Now enough of this hippy crap, I am going to go out and drag race my Humvee.
Comment: Also available are small (1 1/2 inch by 3 inch) SOLAR CHARGERS. Some of the solar chargers also have a built in rechargeable battery. Cost is around $19.95 including cables.
Comment: The fact that you had a Radio Shack catalog so handy is a little disturbing. Please see me suggestions below on how to fix your life.
Comment: Also available are small (1 1/2 inch by 3 inch) SOLAR CHARGERS. Some of the solar chargers also have a built in rechargeable battery. Cost is around $19.95 including cables.
Comment: Also available are fifty dollar bills. Go get one, go to a singles bar and talk to a girl for a change. Buy her a drink and try not to scare her too badly. Don't talk about your mom this time. Don't tell her that you live with your mom. Don't show her your wallet pictures of your mom. Make sure the girl gets really drunk. Don't leave her for a few minutes to call your mom. Do your best to seal the deal but if it doesn't work out when you go to your room in your mom's attic this time after you break out the tube sock, try to think about the girl in the bar and not Princess Leia.
Hope this helps.
Comment: Obviously, displaying fifty dollar bills and trying to lure a girl in a bar is probably the high-point of your day as you would likely slump behind the wheels of your Silverado by the time you make it to the parking lot.
Comment: You sick twisted little computer geek, no no no. I did not give you instructions on luring a child from a playground and into a bar. What is wrong with you? I know that meeting women in bars is a new experience for you, but give it a try. It might change your life for the better.
Comment: a real survivalist idea would be a hand cranked phone charger that fits in a trouser pocket :-)
This, I maintain is BS.
If you are off the grid, where would you get those dainty fuel cells?
As for villages without electricity? Charging their i-phones, I assure you, is not their biggest of worries today, nor ever will be.
Yeah, survivalists, who survive to prove a point, may go gaga over it.
Comment: If you call yourself a survivalist and you have with you a battery operated anything, then you are wrong about being a survivalist. You are a panty waist. You are one of those guys that spent five grand on one of the first laptops that weighed twenty pounds and you didn't come out of your basement for about three months after you got it home. You know more about Star Trek than William Shatner ever did. You have never kissed a girl. You own at least six pocket protectors and have funny names for all of them. You know Bill Gates home address and have dreamed of vacationing near there. You consider Popular Science magazine a jack rag. You thought that Jim Carrey dressed pretty cool in Dumb and Dumber. You own the latest Ipod but have no music on it... just Star Wars highlights. i forget..... what were we talking about?
Comment: And you probably stopped your rant at this point cos your ritalin ran out right? :-)
Look forward to hearing more of your froth once you get your pills back.
Comment: No, but thanks for caring. Not all of us can sit around reading Nambla magazines.... some of us have to go to work. You can go back to your mag now, pervert.
Comment: Ho Hum who cares about pocket sized batteries for those idiotic portable devices stupid people can't run around without. What's needed are small batteries for cars, not phones. I never have owned nor ever will own any of those despicable idiot boxes. I have a brain and can amuse myself quite well without any devices to distract me from reality.
Comment: I bet you are amusing yourself right now as you type with your free hand.
Comment: I would be very reticent to carry something at 1400 degrees in my pocket, regardless of it???s encapsulation in a vacuum, or ???Dewar??? flask, particularly one that will eventually be built in China by the lowest bidder.
There seems to be 2 problems with this article. First, light bulbs have not been ???vacuum??? sealed for decades, thus reducing the explosiveness of this common object. Second, it is stated that this fuel cell is 6 times as efficient as power delivered on the grid. That would imply that, if, the fuel cell was 100% efficient, that transmitted power can be no more than 16% efficient. This is not the case. With a good HRSG, efficiencies of 65% on generation can be achieved. Factor in an average 7.2% line loss, and this equals about 60% efficiency on the grid. I don???t think this fuel cell can extract 360% the energy stored in the butane.
Comment: This last post was 100% geek.
Comment: It's not stupid if you're off the grid or can't get to an outlet. This technology will have enormous benefits for the military, explorers, third world nations, etc... where solar isn't practical. As prices come down and adaptions for different types of fuel besides butane can be made to work reliably, imagine a small village without electricity or survivalist using captured methane and a hand or foot pump to compress it into a canister as a fuel sourcesource.
Comment: Let me just say that solar power is for the kind of guys that go to Vermont and have an absolutely fabulous time.
Comment: Yeah! and for the rest of the real men with HEMI tattoed on their hineys, gasoline is the way forward. Bravo!!
Comment: Why are you focusing on men's bare rears? Seriously, go read my advice on meeting women... it will change you life.
And leave your pocket protector at home.
Comment: Its stupid. How is it better than the wall outlet or the USB cable of your PC, other than the so-called green angle, which by the way will also narrow considerably in an impact analysis.
For most non-lemming devices (read non-iphones) its just easier to carry a spare battery around.
Comment: A spare battery? Okay, great. But let's say that spare battery falls out of your little man bag that you so proudly carry around with you as you swishily sashay around town. Then that spare battery bounces off the curb and being that you probably live in San Francisco it slides down one of those steep hills and into the storm water system. Before you know it, as you and your significant other dude go to circuit city to replace your lost battery (after a good cry, of course) your battery begins decomposing as it's nickel metal hydride gooey center breaks down and mixes with the runoff water in the storm drain... creating nuclear waste. The nuclear waste works its way out to San Francisco Bay and creates three new species of fish with three eyes. Way to go, Mr. Man Bag.
Comment: Wow! some imagination there.
I am truly impressed by the geeky sci-fi movie script that you just wrote.
And all this within a rant? Way to go man!! :-)
Comment: Watch and learn devesh.... watch and learn.
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