Quickly, pour fuel in my Ear!
Christian Lindholm gives us a brief glimpse of what kind of tech we’ll be seeing in the future:
Very, very interesting, but it raises two questions -
1 - How hot would it get?
Where do the exhaust gasses go?
2 - Do we really want to burn more hydrocarbons?
Of course the electricity that we currently use to charge our electronics is often generated by hydrocarbons (and in the UK we’re not building any more nuclear plants - mainly gas-fired) - but their scale means that they are much more efficient than this new tech (I assume.)
Maybe they run on Bio-fuels, who knows…
While we’re on the subject of charging - SplashPower sounds very interesting.
[update]
InfoSync has another article on FuelCells in mobile devices - It seems that Methanol is the fuel.
HABi says:
for what i know a fuel cell normally uses hydrogen, not petrol. so you might be using your headset for weeks while it runs only on tap water….
so no burning any hydrocarbons.
June 20th, 2004 at 1:21 pm
tom says:
The fuel cells sounds a bit unlikely to me, I don’t think battery size or shape has that much impact on most of the gadgets I use (gameboy/laptop/phone/iPod) square things are convenient becase they don’t fall of stuff or rock about. The splash power idea seems much more compelling to me.
June 23rd, 2004 at 3:20 pm