94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid State Battery

Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by desultir on Thursday March 02, 2017 @06:50PM (#13779499)

until phone makers realise they can shave 1mm off the thickness of the phone by cutting the battery size by 66% (and they will)

Then we're back to barely-a-day-of-charge

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Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by jfoutz on Thursday March 02, 2017 @07:52PM (#13779862)

Or 33% thinner and double the life. I'd take that trade, for sure.

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Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by kbenson on Thursday March 02, 2017 @08:47PM (#13780126)

But why not 0% thinner and 3x-3.5x times the life? Are we really plagued by thick phones right now?

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Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by drcross on Thursday March 02, 2017 @09:06PM (#13780201)

The real reason is that if you make several million phones that a certain percentage is always going to explode, either by manufacturing defect or a user pierces the cell through accident. This might mean the difference between some light leg burns or your death and phone makers are not going to take the negative press of the latter scenario. Their only answer is better power usage.

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Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by jandrese on Thursday March 02, 2017 @09:38PM (#13780347)

One of the big advantages listed in the article is that these batteries don't explode like today's Li-Ions.

Maybe in a few years we'll look back at this time and wonder how people were ok with putting a bomb against their face every day.

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Re:94-year-old Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Solid... by thecrazyone on Friday March 03, 2017 @02:24PM (#13785469)

and also how we drove vehicles powered by explosions? :)

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