Batteries aren't something that you can just throw more transistors at to improve. They would require a complete overhaul of how the technology works to make any sort of significant improvement. To complete the analogy this would be the equivalent of finding an entirely new way to build integrated circuits that is actually significantly better than the current methods, which we are doing but it's going to take decades of research and billions of dollars to figure out. Or to summarize that, we haven't seen any improvement because finding new solutions is really f**king hard.
It may turn out easier to make a shrink ray, and fire it at a nuclear power plant than to improve batteries much. All we have to do is increase gravity until it is as powerful as the strong, weak and electrostatic forces.
.....without changing the physical structure or properties.....which you just did.
And I'm not a physicist but I'm pretty sure that if gravity was stronger than the other three forces the matter would cease to exist (break apart into energy), not get smaller.
I was basically saying that we've hit a rut. Yes if we altered fundamental forces, then things would break.
(11-16-2012, 11:58 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]They would require a complete overhaul of how the technology works to make any sort of significant improvement.
Yes! That's precisely what I'm waiting for
And yeah I realize it ain't happening. I'm just pissed about how we struggle to create so little energy for everyday use and destroy the planet in the process while some fireball does that so efficiently, and will keep on doing for the next several billion years :/
Seriously, sun's tech would be awesome. It's efficient, clean, and hydrogen (which is what it burns) is basically everywhere.
While it's hard, it doesn't mean people aren't working on it. There is a lot of promising research in new battery tech, such as
air breathing batteries with awesome capacity and
flexible graphene foam batteries. What NV said is still correct: it isn't just adding capacitors or some nonsense; they are practically reinventing the wheel.
Here's a snippet from that Lithium-air article.
Ars Technica Wrote:If the authors' order-of-magnitude estimate is right, it would still place this battery at 10 times the capacity of the current generation of lithium-ion batteries.
Quote:Seriously, sun's tech would be awesome. It's efficient, clean, and hydrogen (which is what it burns) is basically everywhere.
Do you mean using the radiation it gives off as energy (a.k.a. solar power, which we have)? Or generating energy the same way (a.k.a. nuclear fusion generators, which we're working on and will have in a couple of decades)?
Quote:I'm just pissed about how we struggle to create so little energy for everyday use and destroy the planet in the process while some fireball does that so efficiently
Well it's kind of hard to make/harness/use energy without changing something. And we tend to get energy from the planet earth because....well....we live on it.
And as for "does that efficiently, that would depend on what kind of efficiency. Stars produce craploads of energy because they're so volatile, constantly changing at a rapid pace down to the atomic level. Plus they don't come out of thin air. In order to produce a star you still have to destroy something else. Luckily our star still has a few more billion years left in it, so we have time to look elsewhere, although our planet will be uninhabitable within a few million years (maybe dozens or hundreds if we're lucky). But now I'm in danger of rambling about the future of our race so I'll stop myself.
Not to long ago there was some news about flexible batteries not only were they flexible they had notable performance improvement but, the only catch was the resources and time needed to make them.
Also arm tablets are getting more powerful look at the Acer Iconia A110 that bad boy has quad core and embedded dedicated graphics. I'm sure IPC will increase gradually that with aid of multi threading and software optimization it might bep possible to play GC/wii emulator at playable speeds though I imagine it would require a rewrite of the emulator if not a totally new arm/android specific build.
Quote:Do you mean using the radiation it gives off as energy (a.k.a. solar power, which we have)? Or generating energy the same way (a.k.a. nuclear fusion generators, which we're working on and will have in a couple of decades)?
I meant nuclear fusion (which I called Sun's tech cause I didn't know how to say it in English
), solar power is basically taking a very small bite off what sun throws onto us, which isn't really efficient at all.
cdoublejj Wrote:Not to long ago there was some news about flexible batteries not only were they flexible they had notable performance improvement but, the only catch was the resources and time needed to make them.
Yea,
in the post I just made. Seriously, did no one check the articles?
Runo Wrote:solar power is basically taking a very small bite off what sun throws onto us, which isn't really efficient at all.
Well that sunlight has powered all life on earth for millions of years. It can't be so bad. We have a perfectly good fireball just sitting out there, burning for billions of years. It's as free of energy as we are ever going to get.