Battery Question

"Agrajag" (Agrajag) 08/02/2013 at 21:14 • Filed to: it came from the fp

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as battery technology develops over the next few years, Mission will be able to turn up the output on customer bikes.

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I asked on the front page, but have there been any advancements in battery tech in say the last 10 years? I've never seen them as feasible, and almost a stumbling block for human advancement. Once we can master a small but long duration power source there won't be much besides politics holding back the human race. Someone needs to get one of those Terminator hearts stat.

edit: how do you post to two different blogs at the same time? Trying to post on Observation deck as well.

edit part deux: thanks Nobody

TheOnelectronic > Agrajag 08/02/2013 at 21:19

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Cell Phones in 1990:

Cell Phones today:

So... yeah. I think battery technology has improved :p

(Hilariously, that second one is made by a company called, I shit you not, "Oppo")

http://www.cellphonebeat.com/sneak-peek-opp…

Agrajag > TheOnelectronic 08/02/2013 at 21:27

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I wonder how much of that was the battery? Probably different composition as well like nicad or nimh.

TheOnelectronic > Agrajag 08/02/2013 at 21:36

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That's still improvement. Think of the huge NiCD batteries vs. modern Lithium-based units.

And it was mostly the battery. We knew how to make small electronics back then.

There are also several promising avenues in biological energy storage, supercapacitors, etc...

Agrajag > TheOnelectronic 08/02/2013 at 21:49

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They might be smaller, but still no huge advancement in duration of charge. Lithium Ion is the best we got, and I think that has been around since the 80's or so just prohibitively expensive until recently. Supercapacitors are awesome though.

desertdog5051 > TheOnelectronic 08/02/2013 at 22:15

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Hey, give me back my phone!