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The Library => Broun Hall => Topic started by: Saniflush on February 06, 2014, 09:55:57 AM
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As ExtremeTech reports, researchers at Virginia Tech have developed a working sugar-powered fuel cell with energy density greater than that of current lithium-ion batteries.
Sugar, or more accurately glucose, is an excellent source of energy in biological beings, as it's energy-dense and easy for a plant or animal to process. In humans, during aerobic respiration, it produces 3.75 kilocalories of food energy per gram.
In the newly-developed battery, it's similarly productive, with a storage density of 596 amp-hours per kilo, described as "one order of magnitude"--or ten times more than that of lithium-ion batteries currently used in consumer electronics.
Non-biological objects aren't particularly good at extracting energy from sugar (unless you burn it, something we're attempting to reduce with electric vehicles...) so the researchers are using tailor-made enzymes to break down glucose and turn it into electricity.
These 13 different enzymes are combined with air and maltodextrin glucose in the battery. The only products are water and electricity.
The battery's stability over multiple charge and discharge cycles isn't known, though chief researcher on the project Y.H. Percival Zhang says it's as near as three years from commercialization.
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PERFECT!
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PERFECT!
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Hahaha :D indeed
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I wonder, since cocaine is only one molecule different than sugar, just how cocaine would fair as a source of power.
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I wonder, since cocaine is only one molecule different than sugar, just how cocaine would fair as a source of power.
Since sugar is already readily available with processing plants already in place on an industrial scale, why would we care?
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I wonder, since cocaine is only one molecule different than sugar, just how cocaine would fair as a source of power.
It worked well for Randy. Until he keeled over, of course.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIaK3hEJiX0# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIaK3hEJiX0#)
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I wonder, since cocaine is only one molecule different than sugar, just how cocaine would fair as a source of power.
I can attest to its fueling properties.