RE: Aluminum battery?

2005-08-04 Thread Zell, Chris
] Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 6:57 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: Aluminum battery? Electricity is used to make pure aluminium ingots from aluminium oxide, so the ingots effectively represent stored electrical energy. An aluminium battery would produce electricity by reversing

Re: Aluminum battery?

2005-08-04 Thread Wesley Bruce
That's not even new. Aluminum air batteries have been around for a century but as they charge and discharge they form crystals in the electrolyte that short the cell out eventually. The solution is naopore polymer that allows free ion flow while preventing crystal formation. One company is

RE: Aluminum battery?

2005-08-04 Thread Zell, Chris
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 4:40 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: Aluminum battery? That's not even new. Aluminum air batteries have been around for a century but as they charge and discharge they form crystals in the electrolyte that short the cell out eventually. The solution

Aluminum battery?

2005-08-03 Thread Zell, Chris
Anybody know anything about a Finnish inventor named Rainer Partanen? ( www.europositron.com) He claims to have developed a way to make Aluminum batteries completely rechargeable. Unfortunately, the prospective patents are in Finnish. I'd be interested in what sort of electrochemical process

Re: Aluminum battery?

2005-08-03 Thread Terry Blanton
From: Zell, Chris Unfortunately, the prospective patents are in Finnish. This article: http://www.batteriesdigest.com/id301.htm suggests you look at US patent #6,482,548 as a reference.

Re: Aluminum battery?

2005-08-03 Thread Terry Blanton
From: Terry Blanton This article: http://www.batteriesdigest.com/id301.htm suggests you look at US patent #6,482,548 as a reference. Geeze, I finally read this in detail. It makes a case for shipping electricity by boat! Jones, here's the solution for your sea-based laddermill.

Re: Aluminum battery?

2005-08-03 Thread Harry Veeder
Electricity is used to make pure aluminium ingots from aluminium oxide, so the ingots effectively represent stored electrical energy. An aluminium battery would produce electricity by reversing the process. What I heard is that recharging an aluminium battery means replacing the aluminium oxide