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Nanotubes Could Soon Double, Eventually Quintuple Battery Life

Posted May 12, 2012 2:44 PM

From DVICE:

Carbon nanotubes have promised some incredible advances in power efficiency, but one of the most promising (and most realistic) is boosting the capacity of lithium-ion batteries by a factor of two in the near term, and eventually by five. Suddenly, your electronics that last all day will be lasting all week instead.

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05/14/2012 9:42 AM

If all the things nanotube could do, were placed end to end, they would encircle the globe whilst never actually ahieving anything. Just like all the breakthroughs in optical computing.
There should be an embargo on reporting until something actually happens.
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