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3 April, 2009

bio-battery is 3 times more power than lithium battery

Here's an exciting news from the world's smartest people in Boston, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): A new bio-battery based from a virus (M13) is three times more powerful than today's lithium (Li) batteries in gadgets.

The bio-battery could conceivably power mp3 players, mobile phones, and possibly even a car.
The genes in the virus, dubbed M13, were modified to collect negatively charged particles and build a powerful, tiny electrode out of metal compounds and carbon nanotubes.

Such an electrode can produce more power faster than lithium batteries, which currently power most gadgets.

Batteries that last longer, isn't that wonderful?

news source: Battery built out of virus could power iPods, cars - MIT (news.com.au, 3 April 2009)

(BTW, Don lives in beautiful Boston.)

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And what happens when M13 mutates into something that can infect humans, and some curious little kid eats a battery?
Posted by Don_HH2K on 3 April 2009 11:27 PM.

I think battery powered toddlers would be great. At least you could switch them off to stop their screaming!!
Are we are getting closer to having humaniods?
Posted by Rev.Dr.Wu Yi on 4 April 2009 12:05 AM.

So the little kid eats current lithium battery will be fine compared to environmentally friendly bio-battery?
Posted by Antony Shen on 4 April 2009 12:15 AM.

If a little kid eats a lithium battery, whatever happens to him isn't contagious.
Posted by Don_HH2K on 4 April 2009 6:03 AM.

Don't you think the very smart people in Boston would of course keep the virus safe.
Posted by Antony Shen on 4 April 2009 11:56 AM.

A virus stops being "safe" the minute it meets the public, unless it can somehow be prevented from replicating and then prevented from ever mutating. That would, of course, make it difficult to culture the virus on any large scale.
Posted by Don_HH2K on 4 April 2009 2:54 PM.

I am sure the experts in Boston can figure out a way to prevent these unnecessary concerns.
Posted by Antony Shen on 4 April 2009 5:40 PM.

What makes you so sure that the people in Boston are "experts," or "the very smart people," or for that matter have intelligence above that of Sydney (if such a thing can be accurately measured)?
Posted by Don_HH2K on 4 April 2009 10:04 PM.

Those academics and students in the very famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology are, without a doubt.
Posted by Antony Shen on 4 April 2009 10:23 PM.

And what makes them so much smarter than students at, say, ANU or the University of Sydney, as you seem to be suggesting?
Posted by Don_HH2K on 5 April 2009 2:49 PM.

The name "MIT" is simply world famous. Many many smart ideas were from the world famous MIT in Boston.
Posted by Antony Shen on 5 April 2009 7:54 PM.

So you base your understanding of a school's performance based on its recognition on a worldwide scale? You don't think that you should use a more resistant measure than that?
Also, why is "Boston" bolded? I already know where I live.
Posted by Don_HH2K on 6 April 2009 12:01 AM.

It is well known that getting accepted into the world famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston is very very challenging. Hence, it is safe to conclude that students and researchers at MIT are very smart.
In bold typeface to show my basic respect.
Posted by Antony Shen on 6 April 2009 12:10 AM.

An extremely selective admissions department doesn't guarantee a good school, you know. Anyway, I didn't even bother applying to MIT; my SAT scores were way out of the ones published on their Admissions Statistics page. It's also interesting to note that their furthest-away traveler is from Melbourne.
There is no need to show respect just because I'm from Boston.
Posted by on 6 April 2009 1:28 AM.

Extremely selective is a result of highly popular. In other words, many top kids want to go there, hence they simply pick the bests out of the bests. Which in other words, people in MIT are extremely smart as everybody would agree.
You really don't know that blacks have to be polite and courteous to all whites? Same apply to anything Boston.
Posted by Antony Shen on 6 April 2009 2:08 AM.

And after that last paragraph, you still wonder why I call you racist?
Posted by Don_HH2K on 6 April 2009 5:08 AM.

I wasn't born white like you, and I am a victim, how many more times do I have to tell you?
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Posted by Joannah on 6 April 2009 9:39 PM.

It is very good that the battery will produce three times more power than the normal batteries, but we have to think about the bad effects also. The necessary measures have to be taken the proper disposal of the virus.
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