Back 2 the Future
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 6:50 pm
Any of you remember the films back to the future If I remember correctly it was in the second film that the Doc comes back from the future had refuels the time machine from a garbage can Well now it seems that now we are a step closer to inventing this ! Fuel from waste material- not time travel
-well not yet anyway
I read an article on cnet,com about eco batteries
At the Eco-Products 2011 exhibition in Tokyo, Sony showed off a bio-battery prototype that gets its power from shredded paper. In the demo, pieces of paper and cardboard were dropped into a water mixture to turn on a small fan. Sony the Japanese electronics company took a lesson from nature to achieve this wondrous thing.
Similar to the way termites and white ants digest wood and convert it into energy, Sony uses an enzyme called cellulase in the water mixture to break down the paper to glucose sugar. The sugar is then processed by additional enzymes and oxygen and converted to hydrogen ions and electrons, which provide the fuel for the battery.
Though the bio-battery isn't as powerful as the batteries available on the market today, it does have enough juice to run an MP3 player . Proving that an environmentally friendly battery is possibility. Plus the bio-battery does not contain any harsh chemicals or metals .
This isn't the first time Sony has experimented with green battery technology, because the company showed off a sugar-powered battery back in 2007
What's next? Well we're going to Mars We're closer to proving travel at the speed of light is probable then back to the future quantum uncertainty
Read more............
http://www.cnet.com/
-well not yet anyway
I read an article on cnet,com about eco batteries
At the Eco-Products 2011 exhibition in Tokyo, Sony showed off a bio-battery prototype that gets its power from shredded paper. In the demo, pieces of paper and cardboard were dropped into a water mixture to turn on a small fan. Sony the Japanese electronics company took a lesson from nature to achieve this wondrous thing.
Similar to the way termites and white ants digest wood and convert it into energy, Sony uses an enzyme called cellulase in the water mixture to break down the paper to glucose sugar. The sugar is then processed by additional enzymes and oxygen and converted to hydrogen ions and electrons, which provide the fuel for the battery.
Though the bio-battery isn't as powerful as the batteries available on the market today, it does have enough juice to run an MP3 player . Proving that an environmentally friendly battery is possibility. Plus the bio-battery does not contain any harsh chemicals or metals .
This isn't the first time Sony has experimented with green battery technology, because the company showed off a sugar-powered battery back in 2007
What's next? Well we're going to Mars We're closer to proving travel at the speed of light is probable then back to the future quantum uncertainty
Read more............
http://www.cnet.com/