Comments on: New Rechargeable Zinc-Air Batteries Coming Soon

By: Cloud Batteries

Cloud Batteries — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:31:36 +0000

If you believe their pitch I have some clouds to sell you.

By: Rick Cain

Rick Cain — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:33:23 +0000

And robots, I want my damn robot!

By: sargasso

sargasso — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:13:40 +0000

Three reasons why this must not succeed – zinc is recyclable, non-toxic and abundant.

By: Glass Half Full

Glass Half Full — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:22:55 +0000

#5 You’re wrong! My flying car and personal jet pack is JUST a year away! Popular Science told me so (every year for 40 years). I’m sure THIS is the year that the crazy backyard inventor who is just “months” away from selling his flying car will ACTUALLY demonstrate it for the press and start selling it. Yep…any day now…any day.

By: jbellies

jbellies — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:26:47 +0000

Don’t hold your breaths. Slightly OT, but I remember over 15 years ago seeing on the Nature of Things (narrated by David Suzuki) about dual-paned windows that would actually gain energy through a clear-sky north exposure. They were being developed at such-and-such a University in Canada and would start to become available in five years (you’ve heard that one before, eh?).

I waited and waited. Sure, there are Argon-filled windows with e-coatings, but they don’t even come close to gaining energy. They just lose energy a bit slower than the old ones did. I finally went for those because nobody seems to remember the promise. David Suzuki is still around, and he even has a foundation, but that particular road to nirvana is forgotten.

Progress happens. But as a citizen, healthiest to forget the promises.

And oh yes, these advances (even the urban-mythical ones) do sometimes take place outside the USA. Anybody remember Ballard Power Systems (interesting wiki entry “zero emission proton-exchange-membrane fuel cells”) of Burnaby, BC, Canada, once a stock market darling?

By: Jetfire

Jetfire — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:01:30 +0000

So it’s coming out with Duke Nukem Forever.

By: badtimes

badtimes — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:29:34 +0000

#4- the oxygen is released when the battery is recharged.

By: deowll

deowll — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:24:00 +0000

My car battery died today. I was very happy it was nothing worse and all I had to do was swap it out. The battery was ten years old.

By: Awake

Awake — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:44:17 +0000

SAAB and Koenisegg already have a car designed and under test using this technology.

By: hhopper

hhopper — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:41:02 +0000

Zinc-Air batteries have been around for a while but not the rechargeable ones.

By: Rick Cain

Rick Cain — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:32:28 +0000

Zinc-Air has been around for some time. I guess this article explains why it hasn’t cornered the market yet.

lets not forget that awhile back lithium-ion was an exotic battery too, now chinese children are putting them together in village factories for 10 cents an hour.

I’m showing my age by saying this too, I remember when Ni-Mh batteries were expensive!

By: dining furniture

dining furniture — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:51:49 +0000

Wow! Cool! It looks like a good idea!

By: ±

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:40:43 +0000

It’s total bullshit. Reads like Popular Science for the last 40 years where all the hype is turns out to be lies. This is a press release with the intention of raising (more?) venture capital. dvorak.org is the shill. If it was real, it would just happen.

Prove me wrong.

By: green

green — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:37:08 +0000

Oxygen devouring batteries. Yeah, that sounds like a good idea :/.

Make them eat Co2, jerks.

By: pedro

pedro — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:03:18 +0000

#1 Very good! Now, take Obama’s book and spend some time in the relief room.