Yet another amazing invention by the Japanese. Susumu Suzuki, president of Tokyo-based building material maker Total System Conductor, has created a battery that gets its power from water.
The electric current from this battery is as powerful as regular alkaline batteries, yet as much as ten times cheaper to produce. The battery is even recyclable for several times.
The battery will be extremely useful in an emergency, as merely licking it will give it enough liquid to power up a small torch. Or maybe even your iPod, so you don’t get bored if you ever get stranded on an island.
Eco-friendly and cheap, what’s not to like?
November 11th, 2006 at 12:57 am
Sounds too good to be true.
November 11th, 2006 at 1:40 am
Wow - that’s a cool invention/development. How long before they adapt that technology to bigger batteries and we can have cars run on water alone?
November 11th, 2006 at 3:25 am
How come I didn’t hear anything about this anywhere else? Besides that, fantastic invention!
November 11th, 2006 at 10:06 am
Excellent post, dude. Green technology 2.0
November 13th, 2006 at 7:15 am
Maaan, I hope they start to produce it in mass really soon!!
November 14th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
i agree, sounds to good to be true but if they apply this tech properly theres bound to be great stuff to buy at cheap prices like mp3 players or even maby laptops .. eco friendly makes it even better!
also anyone reading this should look into “optic internet” were they use lasers and optic cables making internet go 1000 times faster. no jokes.
they are developing this at the moment, and hopefuly making all parts of a computer work this way!
November 14th, 2006 at 3:03 pm
no..no….noo, the battery is activated with water, it does not get its power from water…..thou a good concept its not going to solve any world energy issues. but because they say it cheap it would help the poor to use handheld devices. The source of energy is the organic chemicals.
and lets not get turn on by the fact that its “green”, in a few years they may just find out that the “organic compounds” that are activated produce harmful cancer causing waste produces…..like the DDT story, that was harmful to the birds and bees.
maxi
November 14th, 2006 at 6:35 pm
(just posted this on the stumbleupon page that links here):
“If you follow the link to the reuters report, you get to an explanation; basically its a battery that is ACTIVATED by water (not charged), so the inventor’s main vision is to have mini batteries on life jackets and whatnot that you could lick to activate and run flashlights, etc in the advent of an emergency (think: miners trapped).
These water activated batteries also charge much more poorly than laptop high end batteries, but they keep that charge for very long periods, so a life jacket built today could be emergency ready for decades as opposed to using regular batteries which would discharge in months.
Basically this guy invented a water-operated switch. nice.”
-mp
November 14th, 2006 at 7:07 pm
Yeah….cos if the guy HAD invented a battery that ran on water rather than a water-activated switch, some big battery firm would have bought the patent and buried it. Like companies have done with other great stuff that could get us away from using oil or interrupting some global company’s cashflow before they get chance to bleed us dry with their current products, or before they have time to plan the right moment to start releasing their “wow, look we can save the world” products.
November 15th, 2006 at 12:14 am
slavia dosent have a lot of water in it so licking it would give it like 100x less the one lick which is like impossible to use for power
November 15th, 2006 at 3:45 am
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Yeah cos, like every invention that could benefit mankind (X-Ray, Insulin, Automobile, Airplane) has always been killed off by like some big ‘corporation’, and they’re like, being all corporationy and stuff.
Jesus, were we *all* that naive in college??
November 30th, 2006 at 9:29 am
can you tell me about detail type of battery powered by water?
Please send email
best regard.
December 5th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
Does anybody know what the patent number is. Would be cool to build for private use
February 22nd, 2007 at 3:56 am
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Its actually very difficult to ‘bury’ a patent. One of the conditions of being granted a patent is that you will ‘work’ the invention i.e. you won’t simply bury it. The penalties for doing so (burying) can be very severe - compulsory licences can be awarded to potential infringers which could be very costly indeed.
June 11th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
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October 14th, 2007 at 10:01 am
I haven’t read all the other posts, so I’m not sure if anyone else has mentioned this. The battery is not powered by water. According to the reuters story its is ‘activated’ by water. The energy is certainly stored in the chemical bonds of the battery material, but wont cause voltage unless wet. The advantage isnt that it is a new energy source, but that the batteries are cheap, have a long shelf life and are recyclable.