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Stanford Creates Pomegranate-inspired Battery

posted by LaminatorX on Saturday March 01 2014, @02:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the three-seeds-from-Hades dept.

TheUnknownCoder writes:

"Researchers at Stanford University have taken inspiration from the pomegranate to design a supercharged anode battery. Working in collaboration with the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the team used the pomegranate's unique seed design to make a battery that can store 10 times more charge than a standard rechargeable lithium-ion battery."

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by wjwlsn on Saturday March 01 2014, @03:13PM

    by wjwlsn (171) on Saturday March 01 2014, @03:13PM (#9193) Homepage Journal

    Radio control hobbyists could really use this. One of the more popular battery configurations for small-to-medium sized planes and multi-rotors is the 3S 2200 mAh LiPo (3S = 3 cells in series for nominal voltage of 11.1 V), and they weigh about 250 g (0.5 lb) each. In my experience, flight times with one of these can range from 5 minutes (very aggressive multi-rotor) to 45 minutes (motor glider with careful throttle control). Give me about 10 times the energy density and I could fly my usual quad (carrying a GoPro) for an hour or more. Then installing a video transmitter would be worth the effort.

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