Batteries that last years

cruiser78 · #1 (**permalink**) 05-29-2009, 12:02 AM

Here's an article from back in 2007 about batteries that are supposed to last up to 30 years that don't get hot and are much thinner than current Li-ion batteries. At the end they say these batteries should hitting shelves in 2 to 3 years so I guess that means anytime we should start seeing these batteries around. That'd be sweet to never have to charge our phones.

http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/...taic-10.1.html

**BRIVERS73** · #2 (**permalink**) 05-29-2009, 12:14 AM

At the rate we're going the device the battery is powering will be obsolete in one year, lol

**TheRealHotshot** · #3 (**permalink**) 05-29-2009, 12:25 AM

30 years? Hell I'll just take 30 hours of charge with heavy voice and date usage a day. Just give me 8 to 10 hrs of decent data and voice usage with only one bar of the batt meter gone that will impress me

**codybear** · #4 (**permalink**) 05-29-2009, 12:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Not_A_Stain

30 years? Hell I'll just take 30 hours of charge with heavy voice and date usage a day. Just give me 8 to 10 hrs of decent data and voice usage with only one bar of the batt meter gone that will impress me

likewise.

I wish I saved the article, but apparantly some students and instructor at a U.S. university are trying to create a charger for batteries that charges by vibrations and it's suppose to be a small charger too so it can go in handheld electronic devices and other things aswell.
You know how bad a*s that would be.
One of these days I'll search my bookmarks for it, but I doubt I saved it since it came accross my rss reader on firefox a while back.

badutahboy · #5 (**permalink**) 05-29-2009, 12:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Not_A_Stain

30 years? Hell I'll just take 30 hours of charge with heavy voice and date usage a day. Just give me 8 to 10 hrs of decent data and voice usage with only one bar of the batt meter gone that will impress me

Agreed... If I could get from 8am to 10pm and still have close to half my battery left, I'd love it... Even on light use days my phone is dying at 7pm, and if I have a 45 minute conversation with a client before noon.. forget about it.. I might as well throw the phone away by 3.

Give me a battery that will actually work for a full day with juice to spare, and I'll be happy.

sumo911 · #6 (**permalink**) 05-30-2009, 12:55 AM

Free (public) wireless charging is also a possibility. But, as usual, greed will probably get the upper hand, and such ideas will remain just that...ideas!

rafyrod · #7 (**permalink**) 05-30-2009, 01:08 AM

that's crap...
maybe they should do that to cities, get building and houses to run on batteries like that, so we could resolve our pollution problem and have a clean america..... right?

**codybear** · #8 (**permalink**) 05-30-2009, 01:47 AM

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Originally Posted by rafyrod

that's crap...
maybe they should do that to cities, get building and houses to run on batteries like that, so we could resolve our pollution problem and have a clean america..... right?

yeah, but good luck with that.
money comes before the welfare of the human race.
its funny how we created the biggest evil in this world...money.
there's no need for it really.

rafyrod · #9 (**permalink**) 05-30-2009, 01:57 AM

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Originally Posted by codybear

yeah, but good luck with that.
money comes before the welfare of the human race.
its funny how we created the biggest evil in this world...money.
there's no need for it really.

in my opinion, i don't like money, money get you enemies, but like you said we created the biggest evil in this world, and guess what we all need it and go crazy about it...

shortbus182 · #10 (**permalink**) 05-30-2009, 02:33 AM

more info on this ...http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/10/02/30year-betavoltaic-b.html.. I think Batman already has this installed on his utility belt.