I give you...The Printable Battery
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Fin Dforum_veteranOPPeople who make this stuff are so effing cool.:up:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090702/sc_livescience/tinynewbatteryisprintable
A new battery, small and thin, weighs almost nothing and can be printed in a process similar to silk-screening shirts.
The printable battery is expected to cheap and easy to mass produce and could be used in disposable receipts or cards, engineers in Germany announced today.
"Our goal is to be able to mass produce the batteries at a price of single digit cent range each," said Andreas Willert, of the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Electronic Nano Systems ENAS, where Reinhard Baumann led the battery's development.
The battery weighs less than 1 gram and is less than 1 millimeter thick. It runs at 1.5 volts. Placing several in a row can produce up to 6 volts.
A standard AAA battery weighs about 11.5 grams and also runs at 1.5 volts.
CrunchTimeretired_adminThat is interesting.Perhaps they can use the same technology to manufacture low cost solar cells too.
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[deleted]luxury_box"CrunchTime wrote:
That is interesting.Perhaps they can use the same technology to manufacture low cost solar cells too.
:hi5:
$1 a watt:
http://www.industryweek.com/articles/new_low_cost_solar_panels_ready_for_mass_production_14932.aspx
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