Topic: Metal-Air Battery Could Store 11 Times More Energy than Lithium-Ion model

[Clive]

http://pda.physorg.com/_news176646131.html

[sam]

if it works then it sounds like electric vehicles will not have the range issues the yanks moan about... I'm not quite sure I get how it works though.

[Rik]

That would be a massive step forward, Clive, with all sorts of ramifications for the power requirements of mobile devices.

[Clive]

I should have held back on purchasing my new mobile phone!   

[sam]

no. no, you shouldn't have.

[Clive]

   I still have £10 of prepaid calls to make on that one Sam.  Once I've used my quota of free calls on my Tesco phone I shall revert to "old faithful". 

[Simon]

I should have held back on purchasing my new mobile phone!  

You did!  For about 10 years!  

[Clive]

And with good reason I might add!  I can see the numbers on the old one!  

[sam]

  I still have £10 of prepaid calls to make on that one Sam.  Once I've used my quota of free calls on my Tesco phone I shall revert to "old faithful". 

argh, if only the same worked here, you lose you prepaid money after a couple of months, bloody daft.

[Clive]

I put £20 on it 5 years ago and so far have only used half of it.  I put £15 on the Tesco phone to call home from abroad and Tesco give me £30 of free calls which have to be used within a month or you lose them.   

[sam]

its like that all the time here... plus my phone doesnt have a sim card in it, well odd.