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Submission + - Researchers Develop Super Batteries From Aerogel (inhabitat.com) 1

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greenerd

on Saturday March 05, 2011 @03:17PM

greenerd writes: "Researchers from the University of Central Florida may have found the most efficient (and most bizarre) battery material yet – ‘frozen smoke’, also known as Aerogel. One of the world’s lightest solids, aerogel contains multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) which each one several thousands thinner than human hair. The researchers, Associate Professor Lei Zhai and Postdoctoral Associate Jianhua Zou, believe that this material could soon become the best energy storage material for capacitors and batteries."

Comment Re:Convenience Fees (Score 1) 390

by electric_penguin on Tuesday May 23, 2006 @11:53AM (#15387534) Attached to: Ticketmaster to Start Online Ticket Auction

I support a goverment mandate that would limit the Convenience fee + handling charge per ticket must be less than 10%. (and no more than a dollar to mail it to me USPS).

I support selling $1000 front row seats if I can get a $50 seat in the balcony that doesn't come with a $10 "Convenience Fee" attached.

Comment DARPA + ROBOTS (Score 1) 199

by n1m1tz on Monday May 08, 2006 @07:40PM (#15289230) Attached to: Day of the Robotic Tentacle

Is it just me, or is DARPA the place to be lately? I mean, they're funding of research into robotics that I thought the industry would long ago have investigated. I mean, hello, Grand Challange and the auto industry; DARPA has done more in the last three years than the industry has in 30! And next year they're poised to be even further.

This non-tenticle elephant trunk like device and who knows what other devices and software or hardware systems... ;) (Can you imagine a robotic delivery vehicle that had these "arms" on it? They could investigate suspicious items, move obsticles, and see around corners. Hell, remove the wheels and use the tenticles to walk on.)

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