On 7 Apr 2010 at 13:36, Clint Bradford wrote:
Date sent: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:36:03 -0700 From: Clint Bradford clintbradford@mac.com Subject: [amsat-bb] Lithium-Air Batteries Promising To: AMSAT BB amsat-bb@amsat.org
Lithium-air battery technology looks to have a big future. With the potential of providing energy densities up to three times that of the conventional lithium-ion batteries found in just about every portable consumer electronics device going around (not to mention the incoming wave of electric vehicles), many companies, including IBM and General Motors are pursuing work on lithium-air batteries. Now researchers at MIT have made a breakthrough that could help make the commercial development of lightweight rechargeable batteries a reality.
Entire article: http://tinyurl.com/li-air
Clint Bradford, K6LCS
Interesting but this part is troubling me a bit for a space usage "and the fact that oxygen is freely available in the environment and doesn´t need to be stored in the battery."!
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