Title: Revealed: The First Hydrogen-Powered Battery That Will Charge Your Apple iPhone for a week Source:
UK Telegraph URL Source:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ ... r-Apple-iPhone-for-a-week.html Published:Aug 22, 2015 Author:Christopher Williams Post Date:2015-08-23 12:33:03 by Operation 40 Keywords:Hydrogen, Renewable, Energy Views:1368 Comments:9
UK Telegraph | Christopher Williams | 22 Aug 2015
A British technology company has claimed a major smartphone breakthrough by developing an iPhone that can go a week without recharging, running instead off a built-in hydrogen fuel cell.
Intelligent Energy has made a working iPhone 6 prototype containing both a rechargeable battery and its own patented technology, which creates electricity by combining hydrogen and oxygen, producing only small amounts of water and heat as waste.
Intelligent Energy's miniaturised fuel cell fits inside the existing iPhone 6 chassis alongside the battery Photo: iFixit
The company is believed to be working closely with Apple. In what it claims is a world first, it has incorporated a fuel cell system into the current iPhone 6 without any alteration to the size or shape of the device. The only cosmetic difference compared with other handsets are rear vents so an imperceptible amount of water vapour can escape.
Executives believe that for the price of a latte, a market worth as much as £300bn a year could open up.
Hindenburg Trivia: There was a smoking lounge on the Hindenburg. No matches though- they used a coil.
What could possibly go wrong?
Did you know that millions of people around the world store and use a highly explosive gas every day? Sometimes they store it next to their houses.
The difference between Hydrogen and Propane is that escaped Hydrogen rises towards space at 14 MPH while escaped Propane sinks and collects, waiting for a spark.
Yes, yes - even I myself have a propane gas grill on the back patio about 4 feet from the back dining room door - complete with a full propane tank just ready to catastrophically explode at any minute! I'm afraid!