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\"1024px-2010_Mitsubishi_i_MiEV_hatchback_(2010-10-16)_03\"<\/a>An Israeli company claims to have invented a new type of rapid charge battery that can charge a mobile phone in 30 seconds!\u00a0 What’s equally extraordinary is that this breakthrough has come out Alzheimer’s disease research.\u00a0 The team discovered some polypeptides which could hold a very high charge.\u00a0 (A polypeptide is a short chain protein, identical in general structure but far shorter.)\u00a0 The main initial use of this rapid charge battery is set to be mobile phone charging.\u00a0 I can see the advantages for this use, my phone takes 2.5 hours to charge. However, this use does not strike me as vital.<\/p>\n

The more interesting use is as a new rapid charge battery for electric cars.\u00a0 The company website suggests a charge time of 5 minutes for a car with a range of 300 miles.\u00a0 If true this would be revolutionary.\u00a0 There are several reasons why electric cars have not taken off.\u00a0 The first is their higher up front cost due the battery cost.\u00a0 This as we blogged on before shows signs of falling.\u00a0 The second is “range anxiety”.\u00a0 To go on holiday last year would have meant 3 probably 4 charges for us.\u00a0 My understanding is that 30 minutes will give an 80% charge to a typical car, then how long it takes to get to 100% is very unclear.\u00a0 But it will be a time since as the voltage in a battery rises towards its open circuit voltage the rate of charging falls.\u00a0 You see this on a mobile phone\/laptop etc. it gets most of the way there in an hour but then charges with frustrating slowness.<\/p>\n

The rapid charge battery could change all this, 5 minutes would be comparable to a normal petrol filling stop in time.\u00a0 It would also solve the problem that apparently happens in that the limited number of charging points get occupied for hours.\u00a0 There is other advantages in principle with the rapid charge battery.\u00a0 Its biological nature sets us free from the damage caused by mining and resource limitations.\u00a0 It should be possible to make the polypeptide using bacteria in culture.<\/p>\n

There are two problems with this the rapid charge battery.\u00a0 It cannot be retrofitted on existing devices due to its very high rates of charging.\u00a0 Also its biological nature would mean it could be degraded by bacteria\/fungi.\u00a0 When the battery comes to the end of its life it makes disposal easy but in the meanwhile could cause problems.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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