Green IT › Long Views › December 7, 2011

Opportunities for the future of batteries

If there is one thing to know about the pace of progress for battery innovation, it’s this: There is no Moore’s law for batteries. The rapid progress that has been made over the past decade in silicon and computing makes the pace of innovation in batteries, in comparison, look like a statue perched in the Louvre. However, that doesn’t mean that researchers and corporations aren’t trying. Here are several of those innovations and why they are important to the future of our always-on mobile world.

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