Sugar biobattery has 10X the energy storage of lithium

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...Now, researchers at Virginia Tech have successfully created a sugar-powered fuel cell that has an energy storage density of 596 amp-hours per kilo — or “one order of magnitude” higher than lithium-ion batteries. This fuel cell is refillable with a solution of maltodextrin, and its only by products are electricity and water. The chief researcher, Y.H. Percival Zhang, says the tech could be commercialized in as soon as three years.

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http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/175137-sugar-powered-biobattery-has-10-times-the-energy-storage-of-lithium-your-smartphone-might-soon-run-on-enzymes
 
Who know...

Maybe thet new official battery energy unit will be expressed in calories :lol:

Doc
 
Doc is getting excited about the carbohydrate in his tata skins turning into suger!! :lol:
 
Mass produced sugar (sucrose) is C12 H22 O11, so it is a very dense substance that is packed with hydrogen. I guess they came up with a way to easily release the H2 tied up in sugar. The rest is a just fuel cell that coverts H2 plus the O2 from the air to make electricity. Interesting idea, the previous best method of getting H2 for a vehicle was to reform methanol.
 
Very cool, but they should just call it a sugar fuel-cell IMHO.
 
"Hey Happy Birthday my friend!.. This cake is a 5.2kWh" :lol:

Doc
 
Interesting how the sugar lobby works! :mrgreen: The month we learn eating sugar is killing us, we learn that it is the ultimate fuel cell fuel! What a deal!! :twisted:
 
great(off to read paper)... :mrgreen: remember the car in back to the future ran on garbage (banana peels!)........


looks fairly complex....13 enzyme system... although these can be produced by bacteria.... seems plausible..... really .... add a few more enzymes and you got the garburator from back to the future. this is the future!!!! also i f anyone wants i can get the full text of the nature article posted here....just ask
 
Battery is the wrong term for it. It will save all that pesky having to ferment to ethanol.
 
Takemehome said:
Soon we will all be riding fat bikes :lol:
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:lol: :lol:
 
And the icing on the cake? (Well, actually the whole cake is the "icing sugar".)

Anyway... This sounds like very good news!
:)
L
 
http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/03/sugar-powered-fuel-cells-are-totally-sweet/

A similar article from 7 years ago.

This would be a fuel cell, not a battery if I read the article correctly, and would produce energy from consuming oxygen and sugar and producing carbon dioxide and water. They seem to ignore the carbon, which is a lot of the energy in sugar.

If it was a rechargeable battery using sugar as electrolyte I would say that would be a breakthrough, turning carbon dioxide (or some carbon compound) back into sugar. In fact, if one could produce sugar molecules from CO2 and water from electricity, that would be indeed a breakthrough, providing unlimited dense fuel that can be stored easily and safely.
 
" if one could produce sugar molecules from CO2 and water from electricity,"

well ill tell you it sure looks like candy after 6 weeks flowering....... :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
 
My body is currently partly running on finely ground peanuts (so, it may turn out to be true, watt others have been saying about me after all). :(
 
some people in Bolivia might be really pissed off about this, now that their lithium is potentially no longer required!
 
ridethelightning said:
some people in Bolivia might be really pissed off about this, now that their lithium is potentially no longer required!
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Quick, sell short! (Unfortunate term for an ebiker.)
 
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