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Seriously.
Normal batteries work by converting oxides (such as lithium cobalt oxide); this new battery still needs to be charged, but as the oxygen content drops, it sucks air in from outside the unit, replentishing the supply of one of the consumed chemicals (oxygen), which gives it theoretically about 10 times the total output capacity of a current-era sealed lithium-ion battery of the same size, and it's lighter at the outset to boot.
This may actually make battery-powered cars a reality, since a large portion of the weight-penalty of batteries falls away and the range-to-dead increases dramatically.
More here: http://www.physorg.com/news161862319.html
And here (for the less technical): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sciencean...ed-by-air.html
Cheers
=-= The CyberPoet
Normal batteries work by converting oxides (such as lithium cobalt oxide); this new battery still needs to be charged, but as the oxygen content drops, it sucks air in from outside the unit, replentishing the supply of one of the consumed chemicals (oxygen), which gives it theoretically about 10 times the total output capacity of a current-era sealed lithium-ion battery of the same size, and it's lighter at the outset to boot.
This may actually make battery-powered cars a reality, since a large portion of the weight-penalty of batteries falls away and the range-to-dead increases dramatically.
More here: http://www.physorg.com/news161862319.html
And here (for the less technical): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sciencean...ed-by-air.html
Cheers
=-= The CyberPoet
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