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The article is from ExtremeTech 

 

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/185999-us-department-of-energy-doubles-lithium-ion-battery-capacity-with-spongy-silicon

 

 

 

The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has created a new variety of lithium-ion battery that can store at least twice the amount of energy found in your conventional smartphone or laptop battery. Unlike some other battery advances that won’t see the light of day for years to come (if at all), this energy storage breakthrough could actually find its way into commercial devices fairly soon.

 

Very interesting and something that is much needed, even more so than faster CPU's and GPU's in mobile market.

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I like the sound of spongy silicon...

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I like the sound of spongy silicon...

Oh yeah it's so dirty.. :ph34r:

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Does it soak up water and blow up? :P

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Ooooh. Put these in teslas. 1000km range would be soooooooo good.

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Ooooh. Put these in teslas. 1000km range would be soooooooo good.

Yeah, that is the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this.  :D

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I need longer lasting batteries for sure.

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Bigger batteries are always good news. I'd like to see it as my Nexus 5 battery barely makes it through the day with heavy use. Two day batteries under heavy use would be great.

I hope manufacturers don't use 2560x1440 screens because of this because there is just no need for them in a normal sized phone and it wastes battery, reducing the chance of a two day battery.

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Seems like a lot of new technologies are moving to foam/sponge based solutions. I likey

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This is great news. The battery market for mobile devices as been overlooked for to long. 

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Any news involving the advancement of battery technology is good news for me as a smartphone user.

 

Same here. At this point, pretty much everything about my two year old HTC One S is still fine (hardware wise), the only thing that I really need to see improving is battery life.

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Same here. At this point, pretty much everything about my two year old HTC One S is still fine (hardware wise), the only thing that I really need to see improving is battery life.

 

This is how I feel, I see 1440p displays on phones now and just think to myself that this is all well and good, but I can barely tell the difference between 1080p and 1440p display on a phone, yet I can tell the difference immediately when I switch to a device with longer battery life.

 

If I had to pick a 1440p phone with a processor to keep the experience fluid, or my 720p Galaxy Nexus with 2x the battery life I'll stay with the Gnex. (fortunately my Gnex has a removable battery so I can just swap it out if I need more juice on the go).

 

The only real solution to the battery problem we have at present is the portable power packs (which in turn is just a big Lithium cell bank)

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All this battery tech you see getting reported on, takes so fucking long to come to the real world... were talking like 5+ years.

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This is why I'm anxious to see what Tesla can do with their new plants and their push for better battery tech. 

 

People go on and on about processor speeds or CUDA cores or high gigahertz RAM, people really need to care more about insanely long lasting batteries (that also charge insanely quick)

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So it can double the capacity, but can you charge it twice as fast too?

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Finally, some battery tech that might actually happen sometimes soon.

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I need longer lasting batteries for sure.

Everyone could use better batteries.

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Everyone could use better batteries.

I completly agree :) but i was just relatting with myself, when i said that. :D

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Ooooh. Put these in teslas. 1000km range would be soooooooo good.

 

Would love to see this new technology implemented in electric cars!

 

I would like to see more people adopt electric cars instead of gas cars these days. If not completely steal most of the market share. If you are a big fan of gasoline engines, at the very least if more people buy electric cars, then the demand for gas will go way down. And that means cheaper fuel

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I completly agree :) but i was just relatting with myself, when i said that. :D

True, just saying you're not alone. :D

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I wish someday we get a powerful gaming notebook with long battery life to last a day.

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I wish someday we get a powerful gaming notebook with long battery life to last a day.

It will happen just not that soon. 

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