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Vodka and beer to power batteries
by k at 3:13 pm EST, Mar 31, 2004

St. Louis University student Nick Aker and an assistant chemistry professor Shelley Minteer developed the biofuel cell in class. Akers said that once the biofuel cell is charged, it could run a cell phone for a week or a laptop all day before needing another drink.

[ Pretty neat... here's a slightly less tongue in cheek version of the story :
http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/FuelCellToday/IndustryInformation/IndustryInformationExternal/NewsDisplayArticle/0,1602,4212,00.html

Still lacks details though. 6200% more efficient than traditional chemical batteries is the only half useful spec I've seen. If that's true, and scalable, then my powerbook should be able to run for about 5 straight days. Yet the article says it could power my laptop "all day" and my cell phone all week. My cell phone already lasts about 4-5 days, and my laptop battery gets between 2 and 3.5 hours per charge depending on how i use it, so, is it 62 times more efficient or 2 times? Or are people's laptops only lasting 1/62 of a full day... i know p4's suck, but...

i hope to see more details... so far the articles i've seen are mostly about how cool it is that this startup got funding. -k]

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RE: Vodka and beer to power batteries
by IconoclasT at 10:40 pm EST, Apr 1, 2004

inignoct wrote:
] St. Louis University student Nick Aker and an assistant
] chemistry professor Shelley Minteer developed the biofuel cell
] in class. Akers said that once the biofuel cell is charged,
] it could run a cell phone for a week or a laptop all day
] before needing another drink.
]
] [ Pretty neat... here's a slightly less tongue in cheek
] version of the story :
] http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/FuelCellToday/IndustryInformation
] /IndustryInformationExternal/NewsDisplayArticle/0,1602,4212,00
] .html
]
] Still lacks details though. 6200% more efficient than
] traditional chemical batteries is the only half useful spec
] I've seen. If that's true, and scalable, then my powerbook
] should be able to run for about 5 straight days. Yet the
] article says it could power my laptop "all day" and my cell
] phone all week. My cell phone already lasts about 4-5 days,
] and my laptop battery gets between 2 and 3.5 hours per charge
] depending on how i use it, so, is it 62 times more efficient
] or 2 times? Or are people's laptops only lasting 1/62 of a
] full day... i know p4's suck, but...
]
] i hope to see more details... so far the articles i've seen
] are mostly about how cool it is that this startup got funding.
] -k]
How about methane powered fuel cells? ? ? On some days, I make enough methane to get weeks of night and weekend talk time.

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Vodka and beer to power batteries
by Shannon at 2:05 pm EST, Mar 31, 2004

St. Louis University student Nick Aker and an assistant chemistry professor Shelley Minteer developed the biofuel cell in class. Akers said that once the biofuel cell is charged, it could run a cell phone for a week or a laptop all day before needing another drink.

I've always thought we needed alchoholic technology. It'll be weird seeing cell phones and laptops on twelve step programs. Even stranger when they find Jesus.

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