Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] so, am I missing something?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Jonathan King wrote:

> Moreover, every new miraculous discovery is over-hyped. Here's a more 
> skeptical view:
>
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/02/1231202
>
> This is not to say that these aren't interesting or won't become 
> important, but I'm guessing this isn't going to be a technology that 
> will sweep the field anytime soon.


Thanks.  This is what I was thinking was probably the reality:

   http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006069o-2000331777b,00.htm

   Even the latest devices, which are very clever in the way they saturate
   a porous structure with the gas and thus usefully capture quite a large
   number of the energetic electrons, have an energy density of the order
   of twenty five watts per kilo. Lithium ion batteries, the sort you have
   in your laptop, manage 1.8 kilowatts per kilo. That's 72 times more
   bang per gram. Do you fancy carrying a battery 72 times heavier than
   the one you have at the moment, especially if it's hotter than a sixty
   watt light bulb?

Just not enough power.  But then if I could have a 100 lb. battery that 
would run for a decade without a recharge, I could find ways to use it. 
It might be good to keep in the car and use to run things, especially when 
camping or otherwise far from a plug.  That said, how much would that 
thing cost me?!

Mike

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