Comments on: Micro battery assembled by virus

By: Solenoidclock

Solenoidclock — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:00:56 +0000

This is wonderful! Nanotechnology is going to thrive with this, and this is potentially efficient beyond our wildest dreams! With oligonucleotide synthesis as cheap as it is now it’s only a matter of time until someone decides to make a microscopic Zamboni pile.

By: BigD145

BigD145 — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:28:37 +0000

I’d hate to see these mutate and get loose in living tissue.

By: sean

sean — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:40:47 +0000

This could, in a sense, be a huge step forward in fighting diseases. This goes to show we would be able to power those ‘nanotechnology robots” that we could send into our bloodstream and it will repair our body at a cellular level! (j/k, or maybe it will be true :O?)

By: sly

sly — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:46:49 +0000

it’s not how much a single cell can produce… it’s how many of these cells can you fit into a certain space and how much power they provide _together_ that’s real question. it also brings in the possibility of self replicating batteries if they’re creating a “virus” to create the battery.

By: M4CGYV3R

M4CGYV3R — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:38:42 +0000

That’s freakin’ cool, but let’s be honest – how much energy is a tiny little battery like that going to store? How useful can it possibly be? It stands to reason that it will take far more energy than this can produce or store to run a device even small enough to match the form factor of this cell. Kudos on the accomplishment guys, but please get back to something useful with all that time, money, and equipment, like curing cancer or something productive.