This may be a break through Z...

http://phys.org/news/2014-01-energy-dense-sugar-battery.html

A Virginia Tech research team has developed a battery that runs on sugar and has an unmatched energy density, a development that could replace conventional batteries with ones that are cheaper, refillable, and biodegradable.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-01-energy-dense-sugar-battery.html#jCp

Hmmm... that's interesting.

If all that is what it promises, then all you can say is WOW!.

My first thought after reading that was "damn,  this will probably give us practical mass-produced electric cars".

But now I've found this which shoots that idea down...

Even though the sugar battery stores a high amount of energy for its mass, the maximum amount of power it can put out is still lower than that of lithium-ions, thus limiting its potential applications to portable devices.

Guess that kind of shuts down the idea these sugar batteries could someday power our cars


It apparently doesn't put out enough voltage to power an electric motor in a car.  

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/national/sugar-battery-can-store-more-energy-your-iphone/ndFRx/

This may be a step into a different source which will lead to refinements and further advances. I mean the first television wasn't much to look at.

Wait a minute, I think what was stated in that last link about this not being suitable for electric car propulsion has to be ignorant bullshit.

Why? Because whoever wrote that don't know shit from shinola about electric car batteries.

Yes, conventional electric cars have all used high voltage batteries.
But Tesla changed all that. The Tesla Model S battery pack makes use of seven thousand individual 18650 lithium-ion 3.7 volt rechargeable batteries. The same 18650 batteries which are used in portable devices. This is what one of them looks like...



So I can see no reason why you couldn't substitute low-power sugar batteries in the same configuration. Especially since the claim is that the sugar batteries have a lot more energy density than li-on batteries.

TEOTWAWKI wrote:This may be a step into a different source which will lead to refinements and further advances. I mean the first television wasn't much to look at.

This is what the first television picture looked like. It had 30 lines of resolution. And the scan rate was 12.5 images per second.

Bob wrote:

TEOTWAWKI wrote:This may be a step into a different source which will lead to refinements and further advances. I mean the first television wasn't much to look at.

This is what the first television picture looked like.  It had 30 lines of resolution.  And the scan rate was 12.5 images per second.

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I didn't remember it being that bad...wow.