{"id":388,"date":"2006-04-26T20:49:35","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T01:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=388"},"modified":"2019-12-30T21:54:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T02:54:36","slug":"power-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/power-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Power up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Damn Interesting has a piece up about nanobatteries<\/a> (with a clever ending, ha ha ha) that concludes they are “still too expensive or impractical to be put to everyday use.”<\/p>\n

Here’s another interesting development in battery design (Wall Street Journal<\/em> article so subscription required):<\/p>\n

Dr. [Angela] Belcher, a materials scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, heads a team that has successfully created a battery assembled by a benign biological virus that binds to gold and cobalt oxide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The new material “has three times the electricity-generating capacity of traditional battery materials of the same size” and will enable batteries smaller than hearing aid batteries.<\/p>\n

But that’s not all. Get a load of this:<\/p>\n

Besides high power, the technology promises batteries that are flexible and transparent. That raises the possibility that a small portable video screen — such as the one on a cellphone — could be coated with the viral-battery material instead of being attached to a separate battery. Other applications might involve medical use such as battery power for tiny devices threaded through arteries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A tiny, clear battery. Just don’t drop it.<\/p>\n

Or mix it up with your contacts.<\/p>\n

Here’s the MIT press release<\/a> on the new battery material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Damn Interesting has a piece up about nanobatteries (with a clever ending, ha ha ha) that concludes they are “still too expensive or impractical to be put to everyday use.” Here’s another interesting development in battery design (Wall Street Journal … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1003,1004,1002,1005],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-angela-belcher","tag-flexible-batteries","tag-nanobatteries","tag-transparent-batteries"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5416,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/5416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}