{"id":199663,"date":"2007-07-06T07:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/06\/the-money-is-in-batteries\/"},"modified":"2007-07-06T07:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T12:38:00","slug":"the-money-is-in-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/06\/the-money-is-in-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"The Money Is In Batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, the expansion of batteries, whether in hybrids, military, laptops, etc. makes this an area where the rewards, and the potential for investors is nearly unlimited.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123059790\">DOD officials offer $1 million prize for wearable power innovations<\/a><\/span><br \/>by Donna Miles<br \/>American Forces Press Service<\/p>\n<p>7\/5\/2007 &#8211; WASHINGTON (AFPN) &#8212; A typical dismounted troop going out for a four-day mission carries as much as 40 pounds of batteries and rechargers in his pack. Defense Department officials want to reduce that load significantly, and they&#8217;re dangling a $1 million carrot to entice people to help them do it.<\/p>\n<p>They launched their &#8220;wearable power&#8221; prize competition July 5 to come up with new innovations to lighten warfighters&#8217; loads.<\/p>\n<p>The goal, explained William Rees, deputy undersecretary of laboratories and basic sciences, is to reduce the weight for the power system that drives radios, night-vision devices, global positioning systems and other combat gear, including a recharging system, to about 2 pounds per day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mantra is four days, 4 kilograms,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, the expansion of batteries, whether in hybrids, military, laptops, etc. makes this an area where the rewards, and the potential for investors is nearly unlimited. DOD officials offer $1 million prize for wearable power innovationsby Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press Service 7\/5\/2007 &#8211; WASHINGTON (AFPN) &#8212; A typical dismounted troop going out for a four-day &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,1006,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-military","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}