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General Forums => Off Topic forum => Topic started by: zenyatta on December 12, 2003, 07:04:09 am

Title: fuel-cell battery spotted on the horizon
Post by: zenyatta on December 12, 2003, 07:04:09 am

Hi all,

I don\'t know about other people but I feel recharging my Z twice a week is way too often. If energy storage progressed as quickly as information storage I\'d be running on one charge for 3 months with heavy usage, and that\'s what I would consider optimal.

Alas, it seems a lot of time is yet to pass before I put a 100% environmentally friendly Plutonium cartridge into my PDA, and so every bit of news about new battery technology is to me like a juicy stem of cactus to a poor soul lost in the desert. As it happens, another such gem has surfaced on the net (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/34485.html).

The culprit is Hitachi, and apparently their AA format fuel cell will eventually manage to power a PDA for six to eight hours. Not much but it\'s a start!

z.

Title: fuel-cell battery spotted on the horizon
Post by: Foxdie on December 12, 2003, 07:08:20 am

Heh I just read that story on theregister just before you posted it and instantly thought \"wow that\'d suit the Zaurus\".

Nice find anyway, I can\'t wait for them