Finally, a good Apple story- Apple has plans to use hydrogen batteries to hold a charge for WEEKS!

[Squad]

I am actually working on creating a new battery in my lab. My avatar is one of the materials used to achieve this. Only difference is I would like to share the technology with the world instead of keeping it to myself.

[Zero-Point]

[QUOTE=The Baconator;33946952]Notice how this thread was rating winner, so much for the whiners saying FP rates dumb to anything Apple.[/QUOTE]

Anything that has hopes of improving battery technology is an A+ in my book, even if it's done by a company run by patent-trolling cunts.

[Biotoxsin]

[QUOTE=The Jackal;33937373]Its funny the US will NOT like this, This really isn't new its been out for a while just no one has patented it that was big(and can't be silenced)[/QUOTE]

As if hydrogen is difficult to isolate

[Hiurst]

[QUOTE=Jarrod;33959939]Fun fact, no one considers the power needed to charge the car, so you still pollute even if you have a electric car.[/QUOTE]

Everyone considered that already actually! Massive power plants (even coal ones, the least efficient) are many orders of magnitude more efficient and less pollutory than local automobile-combustion engines.

Even if this was not the case, a move to electric cars will become even better for everyone in the future as battery technology becomes better, electric motors are perfected (and they're already damn good - trains use them!...), and power production becomes more gainful and less messy as nuclear, hydroelectric and other clean forms of power make their way onto the stage. That's the beauty of electric power - it does not rely on any one kind of fuel. You can't exhaust the world's supply of electricity as we did fossil fuels. Electric locomotion is already good and still has TONS of room for improvement - fossil fuel does not.

People often list 'electric motors don't offer the same performance as combustion engines' as a reason for wanting to stay on combustion. This is not true. Electric engines far surpass combustion in acceleration and in some cases top speed. When vendors for high-end RC cars are putting them together, they have to install a small limiting computer controlling power to the motor; if this is not installed, the car's wheels will spin so fast on acceleration that no traction can be gotten. It has to be 'graduated' by the computer.

Even with such a limitation installed, you can still see years-old affordable ($100,000 USD iirc?) electric cars like the Tesla Roadster pulling off stuff like this.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omCv1PVyjtg[/media]

I didn't mention this, but -- electric motors have one moving part. They will very rarely ever break.

[editline]30th December 2011[/editline]

[QUOTE=Squad;33966439]I am actually working on creating a new battery in my lab. My avatar is one of the materials used to achieve this. Only difference is I would like to share the technology with the world instead of keeping it to myself.[/QUOTE]

That is pretty awesome!