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Electric Stunt => Gettin all AMP'ed up! => Topic started by: Dave Adamisin on July 26, 2011, 08:40:42 AM

Title: Possible battery improvements on horizon
Post by: Dave Adamisin on July 26, 2011, 08:40:42 AM

Smaller lighter batteries perhaps...

http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/23530-mit-boffins-improve-lithium-air-batteries

Title: Re: Possible battery improvements on horizon
Post by: Tim Wescott on July 26, 2011, 11:35:11 AM

Silver-air batteries are famous for having high capacity and low discharge rates -- you may have the same problem with these.  You'd at least have to make sure to arrange ventilation for more than just cooling.

Someone who has recently taken high-school chemistry could Wiki the number of electrons in a Coulomb, the number of atoms in a mole, and the concentration of oxygen in the air, and come up with the volume of air that you'd need to supply to the battery to make it work -- it'd be comparable to the air intake on an engine, I would imagine.