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On Wednesday I covered the announcement from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and IBM that they along with host of other European research institutes were intending to develop better transistors that would eliminate the wasted current that drips through transistor gates.
The project has been dubbed Steeper based on its intentions to create steep slope transistors that exhibit an abrupt change when switching between on and off states.
I focused primarily on its addressing of the issue of vampire energy consumption and how this project could account for much greater energy conservation.
Oddly, considering my recent preoccupation with improving mobile phone batteries and rechargeable batteries in general, I neglected to point out that one of the side benefits of conserving power in electronic devices is that the batteries will last longer. This was pointed out to me in a flurry of tweets on Twitter claiming “Cellphone Battery such as IBM ThinkPad X23 Battery , IBM ThinkPad X24 Battery , IBM ThinkPad X30 Battery , IBM ThinkPad X31 Battery , IBM ThinkPad X41 Tablet Battery , IBM ThinkPad X60 Battery , IBM ThinkPad X61 Battery , IBM ThinkPad Z60t Battery , IBM ThinkPad Z61e Battery , IBM ThinkPad Z61m Battery , IBM ThinkPad Z61p Battery , IBM ThinkPad Z61t Battery Life to Improve 10x Thanks to Nanotechnology”.
In my defense for not pointing this out in my original blog entry, I should note that the technology will not improve battery technology, but just improve the electronic devices that the batteries are charging so that they use less energy and drain less power from the batteries.
”Unlike a battery or supercapacitor, there is zero self-discharge with this approach. Plus, it works well for powering small things, since the power density is very large,” Strano says.
Combustion waves have been studied for more than a century. Strano and his collaborators predicted recently that combustion waves could be guided by a nanotube or nanowire, which in turn could push an electrical current along in front of it. However, in the experiments they performed, they reported that ”the amount of power released is much greater than predicted.”
”There’s something else happening here,” he says. ”We call it ’electron entrainment,’ since part of the current appears to scale with wave velocity.”
Whatever the mechanism, independent experts are intrigued. ”Even though the demonstrated efficiencies are still lower than 1 percent, the experiment is quite spectacular,” says Mingo.