Altair Nano battery update...

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Do you think LiPo's are the answer? safety freaks:002: , starting on fire:mad:1 , exploding:035: ... ?!

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Ever thought about the consequences when you hit yourself with a 50 mph running projectile of 10 lbs?

nimh's burn too, all cells with a high energy density are dangerous. (even lead batteries, which are still used in allmost any 1:1 car)

I bet some people take the weight power ratio over the safety. You don't.. that's clear.. But many others will.

Do you smoke?

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Yah, but the thing is that they deliver full Ah rating (or so they show), so it's really not much worse than standard LiPo.

Ask yourself, would you rather have a little less runtime, and have an uber safe pack, you could recharge it in 5 minutes (or 1 minute) and be off again, not be affected by temperature ... and it will last and last. I know which one i will choose. I bet once they become main stream enough, there will be a 50% of ppl will use them.

It should be expected too that energy density will only improve, and voltage under load. What was LiPo's at market entry, i think it was just over 100 Wh/kg, and now it's up to almost 200Wh/kg, but thats low discharge 2C type LiIon's.

Do I smoke? what is that supposed to mean?

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just checking.. Smoking is dangerous too, you know..

Some companies claim their lipo's don't burn(truerc) they can puff, but they won't catch fire.

Yes, energy density will improve, but so will the energy density of normal lipo cells.

I think the future will bring something totally different. I thought Dafni is currently working on a fuel cell project/investigation.

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fuel cells have no future in RC, EV's, laptops, or any other form of energy storage.

It's simply propaganda from the oil companies/powers that be... it requires a fuel, so long as you require a fuel, they will be in power. We need to get rid of the word 'fuel', it is a stone age idea. Fuel cells are far to expensive, far too complex, require platinum in the cell, pumps, pumps, gadgets, too many things to go wrong, and no more efficient than gasoline from "well to wheels" energy tracking. The storage problem is still prevalent, leaking straight threw material.

When it comes to electric, with batteries that last 15,000 cycles, and very efficient; we can plug into the grid, BUT you can get it from any source you want... solar, wind, hydro, or some other source of natural power. I see zeropoint energy in the near future however, hence my name. Unlimited energy from the Quantum scale vacuum. :eek: