Mike,
This is a link to the Purdue research. It sounds like a valid technical
report to me and I have never heard that the university is noted for selling
snake oil. It seems they may be able to improve lithium-ion batteries,
which could be of interest to EV owners.
http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2015/Q1/new-processing-technology-converts-packing-peanuts-to-battery-components.html
Gail
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Nickerson via EV" <ev@lists.evdl.org>
To: "Ben Goren" <b...@trumpetpower.com>; "Electric Vehicle Discussion List"
<ev@lists.evdl.org>
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: [EVDL] Packing peanuts make batteries
Being fairly technical, I usually look at the situation the other way
around. If the description of the technology doesn't give me a reasonable
idea of how and why it will work, I tend to assume the person is the
technological equivalent of the snake oil salesman. Unfortunately, I have
rarely been surprised from that initial assessment.
Mike
On March 23, 2015 3:58:28 PM MDT, Ben Goren via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org>
wrote:
On Mar 23, 2015, at 2:27 PM, Gail Lucas via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org>
wrote:
A friend just sent me this link, which seems to have credibility as
the research is from Purdue. Any opinions out there? I would love to
have a way to recycle those peanuts.
http://mobile.geek.com/latest/256277-scientists-realize-useless-packing-peanuts-make-great-batteries
A good rule of thumb with these sorts of things is that, if the press
release doesn't give you enough insight and inspiration to have a good
idea of how to do it yourself, you don't have the knowledge and / or
skills and / or equipment necessary to be able to do it yourself.
...assuming that the reporting is honest....
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