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Unplugging our Gadgets? The Future of Portable Power

It is no secret that the energy delivered by batteries has failed to keep pace with the growing demands of power-hungry consumer products. We all deal with the inconvenience of batteries and plugging in to recharge!
Meanwhile, the multi-billion market for batteries will continue to grow exponentially in the years ahead as more people around the [...]

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A Futurist’s Guide to the Cars of 2020

Imagine stepping into a local car dealership in 2020.
Does that new car look familiar by today’s standards? Or has it evolved in shape and style?
What powers that car of the near future in 2020?

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Small Methanol Fuel Cells Powering Soldiers Equipment

In times of war electricity is very important as it helps you transmit data and information from and to the combat units. But a very heavy battery which has as well a large volume isn’t the best solution if you need to stay alert all the time and move a lot. But what if all [...]

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Still Insufficient Power for the Plug-In Prius

TOKYO - Toyota Motor Corp. unveiled a “plug-in” hybrid car based on its popular Prius model on Wednesday, saying it would test the fuel-saving vehicle on public roads - a first for the industry.
But the world’s biggest automaker said the car, called the Toyota Plug-in HV, was not fit for commercialisation since it uses low-energy [...]

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Michael Ognyanov’s Infinite Current Battery

A patent application US 3,766,094 (shown in detail in an accompanying document) gives the details of an interesting device. While it is only an application and not a full patent, the information implies strongly that Michael built and tested many of these devices.
While the power output is low, the design is of considerable interest. It [...]

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John Bedini’s Cigar Box-sized Tesla Switch - How To Build It

John Bedini was invited to speak at the Tesla Centennial Symposium in Colorado Springs, CO, on August, 11, 1984, The symposium honored the 100th anniversary of the arrival of Nikola Tesla in the USA, and was sponsored by the Tesla Committee, by the Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE), Pikes Peak Section, and by [...]

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Using Zinc-Air Batteries to Charge Your Mobile Phone

Zinc-Air batteries gain more interest lately, being one of the most recent technologies brought on the market.
As examples we have seen until now the California-based company called Power Air, which has presented last year its Zinc-based Fuel Cell ZAFC Powerpack (details on this can be found in a previous post). Another interesting example has been [...]

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Lightning GT: Britain’s Competitor to Tesla’s Roadster

Just a few months ago I was presenting the Tesla Roadster as a pioneer in electric vehicles. And it surely is. It does 60mph in just 3.7 seconds, is extremely light and not so comfortable.This time, the British have projected a brand-new electric car that would ultimately compete with Tesla’s famous Roadster.
The car is called [...]

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Taiwanese Chlorophyll Battery - Works With Any Liquid!

The future of green energy lies in the batteries we invent these days. The electricity they provide must derive from renewable resources, and their constituents must be environmentally friendly.
Starting from these prerogatives, professor Chungpin Hovering Liao from Graduate School of Electro-Optic and Material Science of National Formosa University in central Taiwan discovered a battery that [...]

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