Stanford Researchers Reinvent Lithium-Ion Batteries
Now this will be revolutionary
20hrs of battery power for a laptop is awesome!!!
But when??? It would be nice not to have to carry around an extra battery, that's for sure.
TheNurseWhoLovedMe said:
Finally battery life will improve with the rest of technology! Maybe GM will purchase the rights to this and close it down? 🤣
GM knows the public wants green cars. They won't shut this down, though I'm sure they'd kill to have exclusive rights to it, if they could.
Now, Exxon and the other big oil companies, that's a different story. I'm surprised they haven't already dispatched stealth assault teams to kidnap all the researchers who invented this. 😳
SystemShock said:TheNurseWhoLovedMe said:
Finally battery life will improve with the rest of technology! Maybe GM will purchase the rights to this and close it down? 🤣
GM knows the public wants green cars. They won't shut this down, though I'm sure they'd kill to have exclusive rights to it, if they could.
Now, Exxon and the other big oil companies, that's a different story. I'm surprised they haven't already dispatched stealth assault teams to kidnap all the researchers who invented this. 😳
Yep should of went directly to the source on that one...
SystemShock said:TheNurseWhoLovedMe said:
Finally battery life will improve with the rest of technology! Maybe GM will purchase the rights to this and close it down? 🤣
GM knows the public wants green cars. They won't shut this down, though I'm sure they'd kill to have exclusive rights to it, if they could.
Now, Exxon and the other big oil companies, that's a different story. I'm surprised they haven't already dispatched stealth assault teams to kidnap all the researchers who invented this. 😳
Actually, GM wants consumers to buy the cars they MAKE. The various green technologies they've invested include hyrdrogen, biofuels, and hybrids. They aren't ...
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Webb said:
Actually, GM wants consumers to buy the cars they MAKE. The various green technologies they've invested include hyrdrogen, biofuels, and hybrids. They aren't really doing electric vehicles nowadays.
I think you're forgetting about plug-in hybrids, which, yes, GM is investing eavily in. Things like their Volt car, and their E-Flex architecture.
GM's target for these vehicles is that they can go 40 miles in pure electric mode, which is longer than most ppl's daily commutes. Unless its a long trip, they are in effect electric vehicles.
You can recharge them either via the small onboard diesel or gas motor (which is very effecient, since they don't drive the wheels and can spin at a consisten...
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azdurangoman said:
if anything this will give oil companies longer life- only so much oil down there.. less gas sucked out = longer buisness prospects.. im shure even electric cars will need to use PETROLIUM products for plastics & lube.. not to mention everything else we use unless ur a caveman 😁 i think its time to invent a gasoline powered cell phn- imagine that! gallons per minute
Plus it's funny imagining a guy trying to pull-start a cell phone...
Of course, since a large amount of electricity is generated from coal and oil burning power plants, they're not really all that green anyway.
crood said:
Of course, since a large amount of electricity is generated from coal and oil burning power plants, they're not really all that green anyway.
Sure it is. It's much more efficient to burn coal or oil for energy in a powerplant than it is to burn gasoline in a car's engine. Right at step one, there's less energy expended in the refining process to get that fuel ready to burn. There are things you can do to minimize waste heat (and scrub pollutants from the exhaust) that just aren't practical in any vehicular powerplant. This amounts to a reduction in real fuel consumption and real pollution generated, which is pretty green in my books.
It also takes that pollution (what little you can't scrub ...
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Webb said:...
Sure it is. It's much more efficient to burn coal or oil for energy in a powerplant than it is to burn gasoline in a car's engine. Right at step one, there's less energy expended in the refining process to get that fuel ready to burn. There are things you can do to minimize waste heat (and scrub pollutants from the exhaust) that just aren't practical in any vehicular powerplant. This amounts to a reduction in real fuel consumption and real pollution generated, which is pretty green in my books.
It also takes that pollution (what little you can't scrub out of the exhaust or eliminate through fine-tuning of the powerplant) and moves it to a point source, rather than spreading it all out around the city. Guess
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FoneLink said:
As I stated in the other thread, neither the major oil companies nor the independents will frown upon this. In fact, most of them are for the development alternative fuels and are spending tens of millions of dollars on R&D to further this along. It's a good marketing strategy, right? You nor I will ever see a decline in exploration & production of fossil fuels in our lifetime. Automobiles are a small percentage of hydrocarbon based fuel burners.
The oil companies are belatedly and grudgingly hedging their bets, that's all. They'd much prefer to keep selling nothing but oil.
And honestly, it doesn't take that much of a drop in demand to upset the supply-demand curve enough to cause o...
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