Friday, January 31, 2014

A Sweet Future for Energy


 

A team at Virginia Tech University in the USA has developed a battery that runs off of, you guessed it, sugar! The battery safely (and non-toxically) breaks down sugar and harnesses the released energy to power the attached electronics. Producing ten times as much energy as a regular ion battery; these new sugar batteries have been proposed for use in smart phones, tablets, and even electric cars. To recharge, just add more sugar! Sweet!

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