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Fodder Chief
 
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Last Login: 3/4/2008 5:30:47 PM
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| | I am flat out tired of power cables. I have about 600 power outlets under my desk, powering everything from my three flat panels to my desk lamp to my phone to my two laptops to my two desktop computers to my wireless router to my Vonage adapter to my PalmPilot to my cell phone to my wireless mouse recharger to my iPod to... you get the picture. I am just tired of the spaghetti wire mess under my desk. Thus, I am hereby inventing a New Kind of Power Company (a la John Galt, perhaps). This power company will solve this problem. I'm just not sure how, yet. The fundamental problem is simple: the proliferation of and innovation in digital devices has not been accompanied by a similar level of innovation in batteries. Thus, one must constantly be wary of power levels in all of one's devices. It is an annoying problem. Further, the size of many such devices is limited by the size of the battery one can fit in the back. When I pop upen the back of my Nokia phone, I realize that the entire device is dominated by a battery. Imagine what would be possible if we could somehow do away with such bulky batteries. Ben |
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Fodder Chief
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| | As you can see, it's quite a problem. Ben 
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The GodFodder
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| Hmmm...how about a wireless power company? Or you could do the anti-John Galt solution and become a Luddite and toss out all your high tech stuff.
Cheers!Bill
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SophomoreFodder
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| Battery technology is fairly fast moving, industry adoption is slower though. Lithium Ion batteries are going keep getting smaller, just look at a phone like the Razor for an example of that.
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Fodder Chief
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| | Really? I thought that industry was notorious for its lack of innovation. That may be in comparison to Moore's Law (that the complexity of a circuit will double every 18 months). By that measure, I think battery sizes have barely budged. Ben |
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SophomoreFodder
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| The major problem is that advancements are happening in power stored and the amount of times rechargable batteries can be recharged. The main problem is that the cost for these technologies is still to high for general public consumption. People still want cheap and they don't mind throwing them out after a certain point.
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Fodder Chief
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| | Well, batteries in pacemakers can last for a decade or more, so I guess you are right. There are good batteries out there -- they are just cost prohibitive. Ben |
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