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News New battery tech promises 20-second charge

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  1. CardJoe

    CardJoe Freelance Journalist

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    CardJoe, 13 Mar 2009
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  2. Jenny_Y8S

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    20 times quicker than currently? And a 20 second charge? So that's the same capacity as we can currently charge in just under 7 minutes.

    What out there has a li-ion battery that can take a full charge in 7 minutes?
     
    Jenny_Y8S, 13 Mar 2009
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  3. shigllgetcha

    shigllgetcha Minimodder

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    shigllgetcha, 13 Mar 2009
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  4. Rapp

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    sounds good to me
     
    Rapp, 13 Mar 2009
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  5. Bauul

    Bauul Sir Bongaminge

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    20 times quicker for the current, botched job generation. They reckon with actual research and time, they can get it to 200 times quicker.
     
    Bauul, 13 Mar 2009
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  6. badders

    badders Neuken in de Keuken

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    Debunked?
    I'm not sure - I haven't read into all of it.

    The idea is promising, if it actually works the way most of the media describe.
     
    badders, 13 Mar 2009
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  7. War-Rasta

    War-Rasta What's a Dremel?

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    Sounds great!!
     
    War-Rasta, 13 Mar 2009
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  8. [USRF]Obiwan

    [USRF]Obiwan What's a Dremel?

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    Sounds great indeed. Especially for my RC cars :)
     
    [USRF]Obiwan, 13 Mar 2009
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  9. mikeuk2004

    mikeuk2004 What you Looking at Fool!

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    Heard about this on TV days ago, thanks for the reminder. They are hoping to develop this for electric cars :) would be very useful for that.
     
    mikeuk2004, 13 Mar 2009
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  10. Mr T

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    Wouldn't this be great for electric cars too?
     
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  11. The_Beast

    The_Beast I like wood ಠ_ಠ

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    better than sliced bread if it came to the market
     
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  12. frojoe

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    It takes just as much power to charge however, just less time. Imagine the juice you would need to feed this thing, and the size of cabling, to rapidly charge a very large array of these, say in an electric car? To be honest though, any development on batteries seems good to me, as there hasn't been a lot of progress lately as far as I can tell.

    Also, I was worried about these exploding as the current li-ion batteries tend to, but I heard n an interview that this was developed from a polymer specifically used because its safer than the standard ones.
     
    frojoe, 14 Mar 2009
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  13. Marc5002

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    :D it will be nice to go like omg : the Battery is almost out : WAIT GEt in my CAR with ur AC-ADAPTER : 20 Second later : Zap full charged =)
     
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  14. yanglu

    yanglu Hmm...

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    Great for small batteries but for electric cars... to charge in 20 seconds would need a mains current of way over 100Amps
     
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    1st of all, the stated 20 second charge is most likely for something small such as a laptop or Ipod, etc. So electric cars would still take an hour or more to fully charge, until the tech progresses farther.
     
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  16. frojoe

    frojoe What's a Dremel?

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    What happened to second of all???



    But yes cars would take longer, and as they are able to charge faster and faster, more and more power is needed.
     
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  17. rhuitron

    rhuitron Bump? What Bump?

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    20 seconds to Charge.
    And how long until catching fire? Considering the amount of current pumpimh through, I am not that far off!
     
    rhuitron, 15 Mar 2009
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  18. alpaca

    alpaca llama eats dremel

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    with a modest array of these, you could make a 'lock melter'. a few hundred ampere trough a lock for a few seconds, and any of those little pieces inside bends or melts to anything else, and that is a door locked for eternity. think of the jokes; think of the abuses?
     
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  19. Dreaming

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    Can has tazer?
     
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  20. Skutbag

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    'or discharge at a rate twenty times greater'

    Hooray for cheapo exploding gadgets!
     
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