Comments on: No More Batteries: GreenPeak Raises Funds to Make Gadgets Battery Free http://gigaom.com/cleantech/no-more-batteries-greenpeak-raises-funds-to-make-gadgets-battery-free/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Comsumer Electronics http://gigaom.com/cleantech/no-more-batteries-greenpeak-raises-funds-to-make-gadgets-battery-free/#comment-27998 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:26:01 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=44339#comment-27998 That’s very interesting technology. I agree with Walt above though. It seems like there’s some shenanigans going on here. I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

]]> By: Christian Haugen http://gigaom.com/cleantech/no-more-batteries-greenpeak-raises-funds-to-make-gadgets-battery-free/#comment-27997 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:56:46 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=44339#comment-27997 If they are using the same technology as EnOcean there’s no battery at all. Due to very small message sizes and relatively high transfer rates the standard can send messages in such a short time that the enery required to do it can be harvested from the surroundings. Therefore they can last for up to 20 years without maintenance or outside power.

]]> By: Christian Haugen http://gigaom.com/cleantech/no-more-batteries-greenpeak-raises-funds-to-make-gadgets-battery-free/#comment-27996 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:54:12 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=44339#comment-27996 EnOcean has been doing this for a while and they have already developed sensors that capture energy using piezoelectric elements as well as light and temperature differences. The products are already available for installation in your home :)

]]> By: waltinseattle http://gigaom.com/cleantech/no-more-batteries-greenpeak-raises-funds-to-make-gadgets-battery-free/#comment-27995 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:08:54 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=44339#comment-27995 If I read this correctly, there is still a storage battery or equivalent in the propsed devices. They are charged not by a battery charger or by replacing the batteries. They are charged by “other means.” And I don’t think they mean the new magnetic coupling. So still charging, still holding some juice, no fuel cell, no super capacator….what can it be but a battery except by name?

And its filed under “do not open, no user servicable parts.” Which is just how the suppliers want our future “bic” economy.

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