[Robotgroup] Fwd: NASA Tech Briefs INSIDER 09/19/06

[brooksdesign]

If I had not been so busy working for the dirtbag I would have been able to take on the pick and place bot job my bro wanted me to bid on .I was going to sub out the controller and interface to someone in the group .More will come .
   I just got back from the Tractor Supply ,sorry ,no 1/2-16 x 72 inch allthread today ,maybe tommorrow .Pawnshop?,no 1/2 drill motors on the cheap today .Got welding rods but burn ban still in place so not much robo work today ,boo hoo ,all dressed up and nowhere to go :( 
-brooks

-----Original Message-----
>From: Marc Emerson <marc.emerson at fxfn.com>
>Sent: Sep 21, 2006 1:32 PM
>To: Austin Robotgroup Mailing List <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
>Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] Fwd: NASA Tech Briefs INSIDER 09/19/06
>
>Now you're talking, I hear a pipeline robot can cost $750k+
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: robotgroup-bounces at puremagic.com
>[mailto:robotgroup-bounces at puremagic.com] On Behalf Of Don Colbath
>Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 8:55 PM
>To: brooksdesign; Austin Robotgroup Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] Fwd: NASA Tech Briefs INSIDER 09/19/06
>
>Gee, maybe we need to work on something the oil companies will buy from 
>us for millions of bucks.  Maybe the 100mpg carburetor.  Oh, never mind 
>I already have one of those.
>
>Don
>
>brooksdesign wrote:
>
>>Awsome ,But unless it is way too expensive to be practical for e-cars
>the patent will probably bought up by big oil and shelved like every
>other good battery tech in the past 30 years .
>>-brooks
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>  
>>
>>>From: Mike Scioli <mike at scioli.com>
>>>Sent: Sep 20, 2006 2:12 PM
>>>To: The Robot Group <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
>>>Subject: [Robotgroup] Fwd: NASA Tech Briefs INSIDER 09/19/06
>>>
>>>    
>>>
>>>>>PLASTIC BATTERY
>>>>>Researchers at Brown University (Providence, RI) have constructed a
>>>>>prototype battery that uses polymers to conduct electricity.
>Designers
>>>>>took a thin strip of gold-coated plastic film and covered the tip
>with
>>>>>polypyrrole and a substance that alters its conductive properties.
>The
>>>>>process was then repeated with another strip of film, but with
>another
>>>>>kind of conduction-altering chemical on the tip. The plastic strips
>>>>>were then stuck together, separated by a membrane to prevent a short
>>>>>circuit.
>>>>>
>>>>>The battery acts as a hybrid: it can store and deliver a charge
>(like a
>>>>>battery), but can also be charged and discharged to deliver power
>(like
>>>>>a capacitor). The design improved upon both concepts, delivering
>over
>>>>>100 times the power of a standard alkaline battery and having twice
>the
>>>>>storage capacity of an electric double-layer capacitor. It is as
>thin
>>>>>as an overhead transparency, and about the size of an iPod Nano.
>>>>>
>>>>>For more information, visit: http://link.abpi.net/l.php?20060919A6
>>>>>        
>>>>>
>>>
>>>All the best....
>>>
>>>Mike
>>>
>>>-- 
>>>
>>>Mike Scioli  <mike at scioli.com>
>>>Humble Ecologist, Mad Biometrician, Impertinent Questioner
>>>
>>>"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
>safety
>>>deserve neither liberty nor safety."  - B. Franklin
>>>_______________________________________________
>>>Robotgroup mailing list
>>>Robotgroup at puremagic.com
>>>http://lists.puremagic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/robotgroup
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>
>>________________________________________
>>PeoplePC Online
>>A better way to Internet
>>http://www.peoplepc.com
>>_______________________________________________
>>Robotgroup mailing list
>>Robotgroup at puremagic.com
>>http://lists.puremagic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/robotgroup
>>
>>  
>>
>
>-- 
>There are three kinds of people. Those who can count and those who
>can't.
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Robotgroup mailing list
>Robotgroup at puremagic.com
>http://lists.puremagic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/robotgroup
>
>_______________________________________________
>Robotgroup mailing list
>Robotgroup at puremagic.com
>http://lists.puremagic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/robotgroup


________________________________________
PeoplePC Online
A better way to Internet
http://www.peoplepc.com