<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gary Miller</b> <<a href="mailto:aiguy@comcast.net">aiguy@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Or would battery life expectancy actually improve also?</blockquote><div><br>Gary, I think you are going to find the entire battery "paradigm" is about to change fairly significantly. Manufacturers are pushing hard to move to methanol based fuel cells. I'm fairly sure that these are being designed as plug-in replacements for batteries in most devices. In those cases one simply needs to refill the methanol to "recharge".
<br><br>Now, the only caveats here are whether or not the fuel cells have lifetimes longer than current batteries (I suspect that they do) and how comfortable people will feel carrying around small containers of flammable liquid (though in the past smokers didn't have much of a problem with this).
<br><br>Just keep in mind where we are going... Gadolinium-148 nuclear power supplies for nanorobots have a half-life of 75 years. Though I'll admit you aren't going to see them tomorrow... :-)<br><br>Robert<br><br></div>
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