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On-Chip Gas-Turbine Engine Promises to Best the Battery
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Posted by Donster on: 2006-09-20 15:07:30 469
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By Nancy Stauffer, Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, MIT
MIT researchers are putting a tiny gas-turbine engine inside a silicon chip about the size of a quarter. The resulting device could run 10 times longer than a battery of the same weight can, powering laptops, cell phones, radios and other electronic devices.
It could also dramatically lighten the load for people who can't connect to a power grid, including soldiers who now must carry many pounds of batteries for a three-day mission -- all at a reasonable price.
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