Unlimited Battery Life Invented Snaark?

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Unlimited Battery Life Invented Snaark?

Postby ROB » Sat Apr 23, 2016 1:13 am

No background in this so will wait to see your interpretation.

Paper linked to from this article too.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/new ... a-lifetime
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Re: Unlimited Battery Life Invented Snaark?

Postby snaark » Sat Apr 23, 2016 5:25 pm

If it really works it'd be super dooper, but I'm generally pretty sceptical about such articles (see below). ASAIK (I'm a materials scientist, albeit with some knowledge of electrochemistry) electrode degradation, along with rising cost, is the main hurdle to producing better batteries. The question to ask, however, is whether it can be scaled up to usable batteries that can be mass produced and don't cost a fortune. Most things "nano" tend to be tricky and expensive to manufacture.

I nearly ended by career through one such article. The institute where I previously worked once published a press statement about my work. My research was pretty mundane and innocuous, but they wrote it in such a way that it sounded important to the layman. Some half-witted journalist picked up on it and made it into a public safety story and misquoting me in their article. It wasn't, in fact what I was working on had nothing to do with their story. They just wanted a headline that read "emerging technology is dangerous". Nevertheless some industry bigshots took offence to the story and railed on my boss, who fortunately saw things from my POV. Anyway, I vowed never again to speak to a journalist about fucking anything.
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Re: Unlimited Battery Life Invented Snaark?

Postby nowonmai » Mon Apr 25, 2016 9:23 pm

Batteries that last a lifetime is very different from batteries that can be charged for a lifetime.

When it comes, and it will, that energy can be extracted on a level that is to all intents and purposes infinite, then we can expect the end of humanity shortly after.
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Re: Unlimited Battery Life Invented Snaark?

Postby denise » Wed Apr 27, 2016 4:50 am

As the reason for this life is mystery and therefore mortality- perhaps that discovery - or at least its possible consequence will not come to fruition.

Unless of course you believe in the probability of heaven on earth.
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Re: Unlimited Battery Life Invented Snaark?

Postby Douchebag » Wed Apr 27, 2016 7:07 pm

denise wrote:As the reason for this life is mystery and therefore mortality- perhaps that discovery - or at least its possible consequence will not come to fruition.

Unless of course you believe in the probability of heaven on earth.


Are you back on the cans???
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Re: Unlimited Battery Life Invented Snaark?

Postby coldharvest » Wed Apr 27, 2016 7:34 pm

Douchebag wrote:Are you back on the cans???

I really can't believe this but i concur with your observation.
Oh and fuck off in advance you cunt.
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Re: Unlimited Battery Life Invented Snaark?

Postby Douchebag » Fri Apr 29, 2016 3:42 pm

coldharvest wrote:
Douchebag wrote:Are you back on the cans???

I really can't believe this but i concur with your observation.
Oh and fuck off in advance you cunt.


Cunt? What do you know about cunt? You've never seen one, cos you don't interested.
Hey, I've found a picture of your husband, you dandy faggot!

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Re: Unlimited Battery Life Invented Snaark?

Postby ROB » Sun May 01, 2016 1:24 am

This guy seems to think he has some currency around here. lol
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Re: Unlimited Battery Life Invented Snaark?

Postby denise » Sun May 01, 2016 1:36 am

I know how that feels. lol

actually no I don't.
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Re: Unlimited Battery Life Invented Snaark?

Postby Douchebag » Sun May 01, 2016 4:12 am

ROB wrote:This guy seems to think he has some currency around here. lol


Face it, limey boy, you've Brits are well on the way to skid row. The massed hores of huns and babarians are well settled into your country. Soon it will be just another Somalia.
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Re: Unlimited Battery Life Invented Snaark?

Postby ROB » Sun May 01, 2016 4:57 am

You really aren't very smart.
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Re: Unlimited Battery Life Invented Snaark?

Postby denise » Sun May 01, 2016 5:27 am

neither are you if you have to sink to the lowest common denominator.
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