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    News - Structural batteries give gadgets power from their casings

    New material is both the battery and the body material.
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    Re: News - Structural batteries give gadgets power from their casings

    What happens if the material gets struck by lightning. Does it charge up?

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    Re: News - Structural batteries give gadgets power from their casings

    Quote Originally Posted by davesom555 View Post
    What happens if the material gets struck by lightning. Does it charge up?
    Are you confusing this with some other research by a Dr Frankenstein?

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    Re: News - Structural batteries give gadgets power from their casings

    Well, it is similar, Frankenstein's monster was more of a chemical battery though, much like the BAE systems structural battery!

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    Re: News - Structural batteries give gadgets power from their casings

    Wouldn't these body panels be amazingly expensive if damaged? I would have thought using this material would have been better as a chassis? Although I suppose that surface area is the key.

    Still, a decent range might make it viable, cost dependant.

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    Re: News - Structural batteries give gadgets power from their casings

    Guess for vehicles this would be coupled to the breakthrough in wireless charging ?

    http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-ce...roads-2012076/

    Still early days, but impressive results so far 90% transfer efficiency and power transfer currently up to 60W

    Both of these would see electric vehicles a far more viable option ( that is if the colossal expense of the infrastructure changes didn't put governments off )

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    Re: News - Structural batteries give gadgets power from their casings

    It's not nearly as cool as the smart glass that goes frosty when a current is passed through it.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3UvwRHqEFA


    Sorry, Dr Emile Greenhalgh.

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    Re: News - Structural batteries give gadgets power from their casings

    Quote Originally Posted by MrBozack View Post
    It's not nearly as cool as the smart glass that goes frosty when a current is passed through it.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3UvwRHqEFA


    Sorry, Dr Emile Greenhalgh.
    Damn that is cool!

    Could turn my unused conservatory into an AV room/Gaming room!

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    Re: News - Structural batteries give gadgets power from their casings

    this would be good but what if you dropped it, would it damage it?

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    Re: News - Structural batteries give gadgets power from their casings

    Quote Originally Posted by snikez18 View Post
    this would be good but what if you dropped it, would it damage it?
    How often do you drop your car?

    In all seriousness though: as the actual battery part is a 'fibre' as they call it, it might be able to bend a bit. The resin however will *probably* harden the fibres and hence make them brittle.
    Currently studying: Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton.

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    Re: News - Structural batteries give gadgets power from their casings

    Quote Originally Posted by Tartanpimpernel View Post
    Guess for vehicles this would be coupled to the breakthrough in wireless charging ?

    http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-ce...roads-2012076/

    Still early days, but impressive results so far 90% transfer efficiency and power transfer currently up to 60W

    Both of these would see electric vehicles a far more viable option ( that is if the colossal expense of the infrastructure changes didn't put governments off )
    Surely this would make the roads magnetic?
    Goodbye D of E expeditions.. and something that large, I wouldn't trust my hard drives in the car

    Quote Originally Posted by MrBozack View Post
    It's not nearly as cool as the smart glass that goes frosty when a current is passed through it.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3UvwRHqEFA


    Sorry, Dr Emile Greenhalgh.
    This I do want. They casually omit to say how much the glass costs. Perfect for lazy people like me who can't be bothered to fit decent curtains so just have blackout blinds for sleeping in the daytime (although actually don't know how transmissive it is - not sure if it blocks out light or just turns opaque). (Working nights, not being lazy, but that too )

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    Re: News - Structural batteries give gadgets power from their casings

    Make these battery layers transparent, add on top of them a self-charging, polymer based indium tin oxide photovoltaic layer, a bottom OLED layer, cover all of it with gorilla glass and use them as high-tech car windscreens as well! Volvo FTW LOL!

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