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The University of Missouri team says that the batteries hold a million times as much charge as standard batteries. Does that help?
by tigerthink 17y ago
The University of Missouri team says that the batteries hold a million times as much charge as standard batteries.
Does that help?
- bprater 17y agoI suspect that is the duration of the charge and not the amount of power it can put out at any given moment.
- m_eiman 17y agoNo, that says nothing about the current and voltage. It could trickle out a teensy bit of current for a very long time, which wouldn't be useful for e.g. a laptop.
- pmorici 17y agoI don't think it does... ...charge is more like the total energy stored in the battery. Amps and Volts will tell you how fast that power can be used. A battery can have a million times the charge but if it can only release that charge over 100 billion years then it isn't going to be able to power small electronics, like cell phones for example.
- drhodes 17y agoI believe "a million times as much charge" refers to the total energy content in Joules. The parent was referring to voltage. The original press release from missouri.edu: http://munews.missouri.edu/news-releases/2009/1007-mu-researchers-create-smaller-and-more-efficient-nuclear-battery/ http://munews.missouri.edu/news-releases/2009/1007-mu-resear... It references a published paper (likely behind a pay wall), otherwise the content is almost identical to the original link.