At 09:58 AM 12/17/06 -0500, Neil Dennis wrote:
Just saw an article in the paper about a "new" lead-acid battery that uses carbon foam somehow, it's supposed to be lighter, more efficient (even than the 'exotics"). Wonder what that's all about?
Surface area.It looks like an interesting idea, I don't know yet what the tradeoffs are though. I'd want to see what happened to the internal resistance, longevity and physical fragility. I'm reserving judgement until I see some actual test results.
Using foam electrodes is fairly well established in NiMH cells so it's not w/o precedent.
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