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Battery Technologies

• BatMax uses nanotechnology to extend battery life - Add to any battery to extend life, speed up charge time, rejuvenate battery.  Now in production and being shipped to retailers in U.S. and elsewhere. (PESWiki; Jan. 27, 2005)
• John Bedini's "School Girl" (Simplified) Battery Charging System - Project presents plans for building device for experimental purposes.
• Europositron's Super Batteries - Patented technology based on nanoscale electrochemistry will allow production of rechargeable Aluminum batteries providing up to 20 times more power than present batteries. The materials are environmentally safe and fully recyclable.
• SION Power - Developing a new generation of rechargeable lithium-sulfur batteries for mobile electronics and electric vehicles. Improves capacity, operating temperature and discharge rate, at comparable price. (Thanks John Coviello)
• Genius Inventor's Stuff Not Appreciated by . . . ?
  ... reason. Hutchison's bright day in the sun was nearly twenty years ago when he invented a battery that never needs recharging. Several ...
• Compact Power Electric Vehicle -- Independent Coverage
  ... They have batteries that develop 2,000 w/kg and 94 w-hrs/kg. ... Their next
  generation of batteries will produce 3,000 w/kg" -- DEVC. Highlight. ...

• Pulse Power: The Ultimate Battery Charging System - circuit extends life of battery while speeding up the charge time; it even revives old batteries you thought were beyond repair.
• New Rechargeable Battery - Zinc Matrix Power Inc. has developed high-performance rechargeable alkaline batteries.  Holding ten key patents, ZMP's batteries appear to exceed both the energy and power per volume of other available rechargeable battery chemistries. (ZPEnergy; Oct. 26, 2004)
• Magnesium battery patents - Stefan compares Aurbach and Matsushita patents, including "how easy they are to reproduce in your garage." (ZPEnergy; Aug. 25)
• Incorporating Biological Energy Paradigms - Lessons from ATP and nanotechnology for possible energy storage and production solutions.  Musings from Douglass A. White, Ph.D.
• Sonne Ward's Battery Charger System - Rapid charge produces no gassing, no heat; old batteries refurbished; battery life extended; holds charge longer; price is cheaper; level of market acceptability still lacking.

Golden Valley Electric Association: Alternative Energy - municipal power provider innovations include a huge battery back-up.  The BESS consists of 13,760 battery cells.

• China claims to be building most advanced solar battery company - The core technology of the solar battery lies in the photoelectricity transfer ratio. (People's Daily; Oct. 11, 2004)

Understanding Batteries

• Comments about the nature of batteries, especially as they pertain to the Bedini charging circuits.
  • Most Ah Ratings are incorrect - How to calculate more accurately to know your battery's true capacity and extend its life.
• Battery Misconceptions -- Russell Levine on TEV
• Normal Battery Behavior Can be Mistaken for "Over Unity" - Virgin 12-volt lead-acid batteries increase in voltage under load (e.g. bulb) for a while after an initial rapid drop, before they gradually drop in voltage. (PESWiki; Jan. 30, 2005)

Battery Reconditioning

Something to Think About

There are inventors out there who have refined methods of reconditioning batteries by using certain chemicals and a pulsed charge; eliminating the need to discard a batter when its life has been expended.  Waiting for manuals, or better yet, someone willing to open source this technology.

Mainstream

• New Lithium Ion batteries reflect industry's highest level of energy density - Sony Corporation's batteries, shipping this month, respond to mobile products' needs for high capacity and large current. (PhysOrg; Dec. 9, 2004)

See also

• Joe/Fuel Cell
• Google > Battery

Page posted by Sterling D. Allan, Jan. 3, 2004
Last updated January 30, 2005