Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Unveiled

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Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday May 13, 2004 @08:16PM from the amping-it-up dept.

mobilemag writes "Sion Power is showing off its new Lithium-Sulfur battery design this week at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC). SION believes that its new Lithium-Sulfur (Li-S) batteries are the answer to the power hungry devices on the market today."

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Hmmm...Lithium/Sulfur (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @08:17PM (#9146243)

Good for the heart, bad for the fart.

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Sulfur? (Score:1, Funny)

by euxneks ( 516538 ) writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @08:19PM (#9146255)

Now I don't need a farty dog!, I can just blame it on the laptop!

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Bloody Yanks... (Score:5, Funny)

by Prowl ( 554277 ) writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @08:19PM (#9146259)

its sulphur

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Li-S? (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @08:20PM (#9146267)

and the dash stands for......e! It's vaporware people! Either way, the NiCad consorteum is sending out hitmen as we speak.

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Excellent for the Chinese Market (Score:5, Funny)

by BigBadBri ( 595126 ) writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @08:21PM (#9146276)

From the article:
Li-S could be easily packed into the tinniest devices
That means it'll be great for powering my tinny DVD, my tinny digital camera, in fact anything tinny and of far-Eastern manufacture.

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cool (Score:5, Funny)

by hdd ( 772289 ) writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @08:22PM (#9146283)

" Li-S is still 3-5 years away." Wow just in time for 4.6Ghz longhorn laptops!

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Hmmmm... (Score:5, Funny)

by Alexis Brooke ( 662281 ) writes: <alexisbrooke AT adelphia POINT net> on Thursday May 13, 2004 @08:22PM (#9146290) Homepage

Well, these batteries might smell bad, but atleast they won't be depressed about it.

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Re:Very nice. (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @08:23PM (#9146294)

What about heat?...if you've got a device like a laptop, it can become a huge issue.

I know, you can fry you cock if you're not careful. Believe me, I know.

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Re:Bloody Yanks... (Score:5, Funny)

by BigBadBri ( 595126 ) writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @08:24PM (#9146304)

It ain't sulfur, boy - that there is good ol' Biblical brimstone!
The Lord has sent these here batteries to power the iBooks of the Sodomites, and will smite them mightily!

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"Pull my finger" (Score:3, Funny)

by AtariAmarok ( 451306 ) writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @08:25PM (#9146311)

Time for "Pull my finger" pranks where someone pulls on your finger, and you boot up the iPod to provide the rotten-egg smell. Hilarious hijinx ensue.

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Sulfur huh? (Score:2, Funny)

by Lord Kano ( 13027 ) writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @08:28PM (#9146336) Homepage Journal

So now you'll have to worry about smelling like rotten eggs when you charge up your PDA.

LK

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Re:Bloody Brits... (Score:3, Funny)

by ZackSchil ( 560462 ) writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @08:29PM (#9146350)

its [sic] sulphur [sic] [sionpower.com]

Scroll all the way to the bottom if you need help finding the address of their UK office. Also, work on your grammar and spelling; it's appa(u)lling.

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Mmmm... (Score:5, Funny)

by k4_pacific ( 736911 ) writes: <k4_pacific@yah[ ]com ['oo.' in gap]> on Thursday May 13, 2004 @08:35PM (#9146385) Homepage Journal

Q. what would the battery industry give me if I developed a lightweight, portable, inexhaustible power supply?

A. A horse's head in my bed.

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Meanwhile... (Score:3, Funny)

by k4_pacific ( 736911 ) writes: <k4_pacific@yah[ ]com ['oo.' in gap]> on Thursday May 13, 2004 @08:37PM (#9146398) Homepage Journal

Across the street at the Windows Reverse-Engineering Hardware Conference, a group of hackers got one of the Lithium-Sulpher batteries to work in a laptop running Linux.

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At first I thought it read... (Score:2, Funny)

by StarTux ( 230379 ) writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @08:37PM (#9146402) Journal

Linux-Sulpher batteries unveiled...

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Ok (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @08:47PM (#9146483)

"Power hungry devices on the market today" had to be written by a marketing drone. Only commercially-obsessed marketing drones use inaccurately hyphenated phrases like "memory-hungry" and "power-hungry."

The phrases are meant to de-sensitize people to gluttony so they will drive 4.5 ton trucks with 18-inch wheels to the grocery store.

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This means.. (Score:5, Funny)

by daishin ( 753851 ) writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @08:47PM (#9146485) Homepage

That Longhorn will be able to run on a laptop more than 30 minutes!

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This has great potential (Score:3, Funny)

by daishin ( 753851 ) writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @08:49PM (#9146498) Homepage

For portable personal-pleasure devices...

Umm...I mean something running GNU/Linux ofcourse!

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Re:Excellent for the Chinese Market (Score:5, Funny)

by NanoGator ( 522640 ) writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @08:59PM (#9146565) Homepage Journal

"That means it'll be great for powering my tinny DVD, my tinny digital camera, in fact anything tinny and of far-Eastern manufacture."

Oh good, I can finally have a heart!

-TM

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Re:Fix a different problem... (Score:5, Funny)

by hayden ( 9724 ) writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @09:02PM (#9146586)

Personally, I'd like a little Pu-238 to power my laptop with. I figure that about 600 grams would power my laptop nonstop for ~40 years.
I can see the marketing slogan now.
"The battery that kills you long before it runs out"

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Re:Bloody Yanks... (Score:5, Funny)

by dotwaffle ( 610149 ) writes: <slashdot@wals t e r.org> on Thursday May 13, 2004 @09:06PM (#9146606) Homepage

IUPAC don't speak for England. They're international. So they're commie chemists! Sulphur! Honour! Colour! Crisps!

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Re:Excellent for the Chinese Market (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @09:11PM (#9146644)

tinny (tn") adj. tinnier, tinniest. 1. Of, containing, or yielding tin. 2. Tasting or smelling of tin: tinny canned food. 3. Having a thin metallic sound: a high tinny voice. 4. Weak or thin; flimsy.

So, your DVD is made of tin, wow! And you get some sound or images of out it. Real hitech of 2004...

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Really? (Score:4, Funny)

by rixstep ( 611236 ) writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @09:20PM (#9146713) Homepage

SION believes that its new Lithium-Sulfur (Li-S) batteries are the answer to the power hungry devices on the market today.

Really?

They're an answer to Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Microsoft?

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The real reason they used Sulphur... (Score:3, Funny)

by GrpA ( 691294 ) writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @09:22PM (#9146734)

Is so that when you're working late in a confined machine room, 3 hours past midnight, the smell of burning sulphur will remind you that you're in Tech Hell...

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Re:Fix a different problem... (Score:5, Funny)

by mchappee ( 22897 ) * writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @09:58PM (#9146970)

> Batteries are not used just in electronics.

That's the funniest thing I've heard today. What else are they used in? Salads?

Matthew

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Re:Yeah right. (Score:2, Funny)

by Stoutlimb ( 143245 ) writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @10:25PM (#9147119)

Easy... for a laptop, just put your PEM device near your P4 chip.

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Re:Bloody Yanks... (Score:3, Funny)

by Fulcrum of Evil ( 560260 ) writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @10:36PM (#9147190)

he Lord has sent these here batteries to power the iBooks of the Sodomites, and will smite them mightily!

And in my wobbly bits, no less!

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Re:cool (Score:4, Funny)

by Mr2cents ( 323101 ) writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @10:58PM (#9147333)

That would make a great platform to play "Duke Nukem Forever" on! Drool...

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Re:Bloody Yanks... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday May 13, 2004 @11:02PM (#9147374)

Crisps!

I say Crisps should be shaped like Sierpinski Gaskets.

Infinitely crunchy, and no calories.

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Re:Impact on the environment... (Score:3, Funny)

by Anne Thwacks ( 531696 ) writes: on Friday May 14, 2004 @03:31AM (#9148660)

Just a hint ... Suphur is the same Brimstone that is spake about in ye olde testament, and is the main ingredient of acid rain.
Hence disposing of these things will rot the environment and invoke the wrath of the Lord. If you buy one, you'd best keep it forever, or else you can reasonably expect at least three plagues, and probably being struck by lightning and turned to stone as well.

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Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Unveiled

Hmmm...Lithium/Sulfur (Score:0, Funny)

Sulfur? (Score:1, Funny)

Bloody Yanks... (Score:5, Funny)

Li-S? (Score:2, Funny)

Excellent for the Chinese Market (Score:5, Funny)

cool (Score:5, Funny)

Hmmmm... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Very nice. (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Bloody Yanks... (Score:5, Funny)

"Pull my finger" (Score:3, Funny)

Sulfur huh? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Bloody Brits... (Score:3, Funny)

Mmmm... (Score:5, Funny)

Meanwhile... (Score:3, Funny)

At first I thought it read... (Score:2, Funny)

Ok (Score:2, Funny)

This means.. (Score:5, Funny)

This has great potential (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Excellent for the Chinese Market (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Fix a different problem... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Bloody Yanks... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Excellent for the Chinese Market (Score:1, Funny)

Really? (Score:4, Funny)

The real reason they used Sulphur... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Fix a different problem... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Yeah right. (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Bloody Yanks... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:cool (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Bloody Yanks... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Impact on the environment... (Score:3, Funny)

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