Battery offers 30 second phone charging

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A battery that can charge in under 30 seconds has been shown off at a technology conference in Tel Aviv.

Israeli start-up StoreDot displayed the device - made of biological structures - at Microsoft's Think Next Conference.

A Samsung S4 smartphone went from a dead battery to full power in 26 seconds in the demonstration.

The battery is currently only a prototype and the firm predicts it will take three years to become a commercially viable product.

In the demonstration, a battery pack the size of a cigarette packet was attached to a smartphone.

"We think we can integrate a battery into a smartphone within a year and have a commercially ready device in three years," founder Dr Dorn Myersdorf told the BBC.

The bio-organic battery utilises tiny self-assembling nano-crystals that were first identified in research being done into Alzheimer's disease at Tel Aviv University 10 years ago.

The nano-dots are described by StoreDot as "stable, robust spheres" that are 2.1 nanometers in diameter and made up of peptide molecules.

The technology has a range of uses, founder Dr Myersdorf said.

"Batteries are just one of the industries we can disrupt with this new material. It is new physics, new chemistry, a new approach to devices," he said.

The team has also used the nano-crystals in memory chips which could write three times faster than traditional flash memory and as a non-toxic alternative to cadmium in screens.

Dr Myersdorf said that the batteries are likely to be 30 to 40% more expensive to manufacture compared to traditional ones and the final product will be twice as expensive than those on the market today.

But making them should be a relatively easy process.

"It is about letting nature take its course. We just need a facility that can do chemical processing," he said.
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I saw the video - pretty impressive. :eek:
 
The_Librarian said:
Imagine an electric car with such a battery...
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That would promptly destroy our national grid. We'd need a way to average out the charging over-night to maximise the efficiency on the generation side of things. For goodness sake, look at the grid now at 6PM when people get home and start to shower/bath and geysers turn on. Now if people plug in their cars AND take a shower, then we're in trouble.

SA very desperately needs to enforce a smart grid system. All geysers and electric cars should not be doing their thing at peak load.
 
agentrfr said:
SA very desperately needs to enforce a smart grid system. All geysers and electric cars should not be doing their thing at peak load.
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Enforce? As far as I'm concerned they only need to make t available to me and I'll gladly run my tumble dryer, dishwasher, pool pump during off peak times. Assuming of course the rate is lower.
 
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bwana said:
Enforce? As far as I'm concerned they only need to make t available to me and I'll gladly run my table dryer, dishwasher, pool pump during off peak times. Assuming of course the rate is lower.
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They definitely need to charge us different rates at different times of the day, I agree.

You can already buy a switch thingy that reads a signal from the grid that turns its self on and off for your geyser/pool already. I think they are almost free with how subsidised they are. Go ask an electrician as he'd need to install it in your Distribution Board.

The people that are willing to reduce load on the grid are usually the same people that have been using CFLs and LEDs for years and understand that Eskom's issue is not net supply, it is peak supply. I'm assuming people like you and me would set our cars to charge during low peak times, where Eskom's generators are still running producing excess power. It is not the sensible people that are the problem. It's getting everyone to do the same is the issue. It'll be easier to force people to get grid signal operated switches rather than simply trust the public to be responsible at all times.

EDIT: table dryer? That is some serious industrial grade machinery you are running there :p
 
agentrfr said:
They definitely need to charge us different rates at different times of the day, I agree.

You can already buy a switch thingy that reads a signal from the grid that turns its self on and off for your geyser/pool already. I think they are almost free with how subsidised they are. Go ask an electrician as he'd need to install it in your Distribution Board.

The people that are willing to reduce load on the grid are usually the same people that have been using CFLs and LEDs for years and understand that Eskom's issue is not net supply, it is peak supply. I'm assuming people like you and me would set our cars to charge during low peak times, where Eskom's generators are still running producing excess power. It is not the sensible people that are the problem. It's getting everyone to do the same is the issue. It'll be easier to force people to get grid signal operated switches rather than simply trust the public to be responsible at all times.

EDIT: table dryer? That is some serious industrial grade machinery you are running there :p
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See - I don't want the municipality controlling when I can use my appliances - I'd rather they offered me an incentive to do so at off peak times.

And yes - we wash a lot of tables around these parts… :D
 
w00t you got to be kidding me! Still looks like an old April's fool joke with an app running in the background but if this is legit I won't carry a bulky battery like that with me! It can come in handy for solar vehicle's


Once everyone has been converted/switched over to smart-meters! Rates like that could could possible peak and off-peak
 
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