Tuesday 30 October 2012

Strange Batteries

Speaking of paint, how do you think it would be possible to have battery concealed in that paint? First off, lets start with a normal battery. A standard household battery is comprised of a positive cathode and negative anode, separated down the middle, and a "Current Collector" to gather the charges passing through it.

The spray-paint battery works in the same way, except the cathode/anodes are the top/bottom layers of the paint, which a current collector in the middle. Could you imagine... If instead of covering that asteroid with just regular paint to move it, we could make it into a 180 square km battery?! That would be as insane as jumping from the edge of space... Almost. The implications of this techonology are massive, except it will take an unnecessarily long time to make into a product, no thanks to the lack of scientific funding!

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