Episode #190
News Items
Who's That Noisy
- Peter Popoff
Interview with Kenneth Miller
- http://www.millerandlevine.com/km/index.html Professor of Biology Royce Family Professor for Teaching Excellence Brown University Author of several books: Prentice Hall Biology, Finding Darwin’s God, and Only a Theory
Science or Fiction
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Item #1
Science
MIT researchers have created a new process for manufacturing lithium ion batteries that allow them to be charged and discharged much faster – a large battery can be fully charged in minutes rather than hours. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/battery-hybrid.html
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Item #2
Science
Physicists have created a new type of battery that uses magnetic spin rather than chemical bonds to store energy.
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Item #3
Fiction
Texas company, Eestor, has produced and will market this year an ultracapacitor-based energy storage system that has 10 times the energy density as current lithium-ion batteries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEStor