Long Life Battery, would be awesome for vibrators

[Tania Admin]

I had never of this until this evening. A battery that has been going for 170 years. Unfortunately they can't tell what the battery is, either that or they just are not disclosing, it would put Duracell and Eveready out of business,,, The Oxford Bell @Wikipedia

 

[svengali]

Wow!! So even way back then we had bateries??

I can remember a contraption back in the fifties called a "lead accumulator" which was the forerunner of the modern lead-acid battery. Then we had lithium and nickel cadmium batteries developed during the space programme which gave us those tiny "button"batteries.

The biggest obstacle to wider use of "clean" energy sources and electric vehicles is still the lack of a large-scale, cost-effective means of storing electricity.

 

[Farm Boy]

When I first learnt of this I did wonder if it could be scaled up and incorporated into the wind farms and take some of the power functions of the grid,

A kinetic energy recovery system (often known simply as KERS) is an automotive system for recovering a moving vehicle's kinetic energy under braking. The recovered energy is stored in a reservoir (for example a flywheel or a battery) for later use under acceleration.
The concept of transferring the vehicle’s kinetic energy using flywheel energy storage was postulated by physicist Richard Feynman in the 1950s.[1] It is exemplified in complex high end systems such as the Zytek, Flybrid,[2] Torotrak[3][4] and Xtrac used in Formula One racing and simple, easily manufactured and integrated differential based systems such as the Cambridge Passenger/Commercial Vehicle Kinetic Energy Recovery System (CPC-KERS).[5]
Xtrac and Flybrid are both licensees of Torotrak's technologies, which employ a small and sophisticated ancillary gearbox incorporating a continuously variable transmission (CVT). The CPC-KERS is similar as it also forms part of the driveline assembly. However, the whole mechanism including the flywheel sits entirely in the vehicle’s hub (looking like a drum brake). In the CPC-KERS, a differential replaces the CVT and transfers torque between the flywheel, drive wheel and road wheel.

 

[homer]

it's kinda bulky to carry around, besides they don't make vibrator of this size. It would be wrong to bring too much pleasure...lol
But hey some Korean scientists found a way to charge lithium ion batteries in a matter of minutes. They might just have solved the charging time needed for electric cars...and perhaps the vibrator running out of charge problem....

 

[Tania Admin]

When I first learnt of this I did wonder if it could be scaled up and incorporated into the wind farms and take some of the power functions of the grid,

A kinetic energy recovery system (often known simply as KERS) is an automotive system for recovering a moving vehicle's kinetic energy under braking. The recovered energy is stored in a reservoir (for example a flywheel or a battery) for later use under acceleration.
The concept of transferring the vehicle’s kinetic energy using flywheel energy storage was postulated by physicist Richard Feynman in the 1950s.[1] It is exemplified in complex high end systems such as the Zytek, Flybrid,[2] Torotrak[3][4] and Xtrac used in Formula One racing and simple, easily manufactured and integrated differential based systems such as the Cambridge Passenger/Commercial Vehicle Kinetic Energy Recovery System (CPC-KERS).[5]
Xtrac and Flybrid are both licensees of Torotrak's technologies, which employ a small and sophisticated ancillary gearbox incorporating a continuously variable transmission (CVT). The CPC-KERS is similar as it also forms part of the driveline assembly. However, the whole mechanism including the flywheel sits entirely in the vehicle’s hub (looking like a drum brake). In the CPC-KERS, a differential replaces the CVT and transfers torque between the flywheel, drive wheel and road wheel.

From what I read on this, I don't think they know what type of battery it is. When it eventually stops I have no doubt it will be examined thoroughly by our scientific community.