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Battery and Inventions

Every time I read about an invention nowadays, I rolled
my eyes and mutter "not another one".

A group of researchers at Harvard University successfully
lit up a light bulb without a wire. They sent an electrical
charge wirelessly from the source a few feet away and lit an
electrical device (light bulb).

Another group of students successfully stored electricity
in a paper media. Imagine rolls of paper that can now
function as battery. If a company could now commercially
make or print batteries the applications to electrical devices
that needed flexibility and weight is endless.

The holy grail of electrical storage is really how to pack more
energy efficiently in the least space and the least weight.

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