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When these hit the market they are going to change the world.
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someone tl;dw that 15 minute video for me since I can't exactly skim through it. These things real now? Or is it "researchers in a lab" type of thing?
These things real now? Or is it "researchers in a lab" type of thing?
They come free with the purchases of an Hewlett Packard Memristor Solid State Drive. Supplies are limited though.
They made in the same factory as the "10000"mAh Li-Ion batteries?Supposedly there is some low-volume production underway in China, so it's not just a lab project anymore.
Bummer.I worked for a startup in Denver who was building these things back in 2014. We were using thin-film vapor deposition. Finished batteries were about the size and thickness of a postage stamp, 4V and something like 50mAh.
The neat thing about them is that they were able to accept a charge from just about any power source imaginable, including solar, vibration, thermal, and electromagnetic background noise (emi) if hooked up to a proper collector. They could also be recharged several dozen times more than your typical li-ion battery before losing capacity.
The not-neat thing about them is that we were averaging about 30% yield and then the owner spun the company off to China. =(
Yep- and (if this is the same video I saw a few days ago) the solid glass electrolite looks like it will make Li-on batteries easier to make, faster to charge, and last longer. All at once- might be a huge deal.
Solidstate batteries have been in use for a long time now, and they've been touted as the Next Big Thing in batteries for even longer. I wouldn't hold my breath at this point.
in use in what?
One market my old employer was targeting was RFID chips. RFID chips are normally passive devices - they harvest enough energy from the radio waves scanning them to broadcast a response. However, add a small battery to them, and they are suddenly able to broadcast over a much longer distance.They're used all over the place in embedded and mobile electronics. Basically used to maintain sleep states in applications where a primary cell doesn't make sense. They're typically under 10mAh capacity.
One market my old employer was targeting was RFID chips. RFID chips are normally passive devices - they harvest enough energy from the radio waves scanning them to broadcast a response. However, add a small battery to them, and they are suddenly able to broadcast over a much longer distance.
Shipping companies (like UPS) could use the tech to ID packages. Then, instead of barcode scanning each individual item at their distribution centers, they could just drive an entire truck through an RFID scanner and instantly inventory the whole thing.
I don't know enough about logistics to say whether this would be a time saver or not - UPS would still have to encode and apply the RFID chips - but it was something my old company was trying to get into.
One market my old employer was targeting was RFID chips. RFID chips are normally passive devices - they harvest enough energy from the radio waves scanning them to broadcast a response. However, add a small battery to them, and they are suddenly able to broadcast over a much longer distance.
Shipping companies (like UPS) could use the tech to ID packages. Then, instead of barcode scanning each individual item at their distribution centers, they could just drive an entire truck through an RFID scanner and instantly inventory the whole thing.
I don't know enough about logistics to say whether this would be a time saver or not - UPS would still have to encode and apply the RFID chips - but it was something my old company was trying to get into.
seems like a lot of e-waste though if EVERY package had a battery & rfid chip because think about it, what do you do with the barcodes on packages you get now. you throw them in the trash. plus you still have to have someone sort the packages and load vehicles.
now i could see them add them to credit card rfids so stores can better stalk the people that come through there. (would be like a real life "cookie") I'm sure Walmart would love that to go along w/ the facial recognition camera's they use.
but thunderbolt said they had "been in use for a long time now". I was wondering what ss batteries are already being used in now. i really doubt anything. to quote wikipedia "Solid-state batteries are traditionally expensive to make[35] and manufacturing processes are noted to be difficult to scale, requiring expensive vacuum deposition equipment.[7] It was estimated in 2012 that, based on then-current technology, a 20 Ah solid-state battery cell would cost US$100,000, and a high-range electric car would require 800 to 1,000 of such cells.[7] Cost has impeded the adoption of solid-state batteries in other areas, such as smartphones."
the cost beats out any real reason to use them up to this point. but they have been making some serious breakthroughs as of late.