More efficient power storage and battery power is a key to a low-carbon future and there are many new bettery technologies evolving including the "air" battery from Scotland.Inventorspot.com reports:
Within the next five years we could see electric cars that can run far longer on one charge than a tank or two of gas. Your computer and cell phone batteries could last for several days without charging... while they are in use! In one huge step for the electronics and renewable energy industries, air power could actually be in 'charge.'
Researchers at Scotland's University of St. Andrews are reporting great progress in their work on the air-powered battery, which is being designed to replace the lithium cobalt oxide electrode in the fuel cell. The "STAIR" (St. Andres Air) battery will run on all renewable sources, including solar, wind, and oxygen!
The four-year research project, sponsored by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Councle of Great Britain (EPSRC), is not even two years underway, but the project has already achieved a battery lasting 8 times longer than a lithium cobalt oxide battery, and the overall goal was to achieve a battery with 5 to 10 times more life." See full article.
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