http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/ Engadget Comments for MIT developing an "engine on a chip" to beat the battery http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/Sep 19th 2006 10:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/
"...relax for a nice evening of D&D" Nice.

..."supplant or replace the battery consumer electronics." you mean "supplement" and "...battery 'of' [or 'on', wither one works] consumer electronics."?]]>Sep 19th 2006 10:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/Sep 19th 2006 10:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/Sep 19th 2006 10:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/Sep 19th 2006 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/My comment however is that isn't this just moving from needing to replace batteries to needing to fuel the tiny generators?]]>Sep 19th 2006 10:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/Sep 19th 2006 10:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/Sep 19th 2006 11:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/Sep 19th 2006 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/
In any case, I would love to get my hand on one. You should be able to get a pretty decent sized tank of methanol (or whatever they decided to run them on) to fit in a battery slot...

Me calculates my battery is ~200cc, so if you can fill 1/2 of that with methanol you have 100ml, or 3 moles, or about 2MJ of energy. If you get 20% efficiency (wishful thinking, but I certainly hope that my battery is putting out considerably less than 50W...) that is 400KJ, or about 1hour of battery life running at 10W (which is less than what most laptops are using now)... But then again if they managed 80% efficiency that is a cool 4hours, and if they managed to get 80% of the available battery space used that boosts it to almost 6hours XD

But the best part is that the time wouldn't be cut in half after a year of use :) I wonder what the lifetime on these things is...]]>Sep 19th 2006 11:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/Sep 20th 2006 12:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/Sep 19th 2006 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/Sep 19th 2006 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/Sep 19th 2006 11:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/Sep 20th 2006 12:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/Sep 20th 2006 12:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/Sep 20th 2006 12:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/Sep 20th 2006 1:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/Gasoline should be going the way of the dinosaur to which it came from or we're all going to be dying from air poisioning and global flodding, heating and the like sooner than we think.]]>Sep 20th 2006 1:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/Sep 20th 2006 1:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/Sep 20th 2006 1:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/Sep 20th 2006 1:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/We need energies that don't produce CO2 and crap like that. Why not spend your parents college dollars learning how to make things that are environmentally friendly?]]>Sep 20th 2006 2:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/
(also, supplant is a word. It means replace or take place of)

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Really I am.]]>Sep 20th 2006 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/Sep 20th 2006 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/Sep 20th 2006 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/
I bet you expell more CO2 than this thing does.

Heres an article from nearly two years ago on these turbines from New Scientist:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6559]]>Sep 20th 2006 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/Sep 20th 2006 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/19/mit-developing-an-engine-on-a-chip-to-beat-the-battery/Sep 21st 2006 1:02PM