The Why Files Blog
Science fact meets science fiction
This just in from a careful reader regarding our Why File on new battery technology.
Comments: I really enjoyed today’s article on the quick-charge
battery, It put me in mind of a science fiction novel called “To Your
Scattered Bodies Go” by [the late] Phillip Jose Farmer, positing a power source
he called the batacitor–a mushroom-shaped quick charge/quick release
battery.The original story was published in the January 1965 Worlds of
Tomorrow. I guess that moves Mr. Farmer into the ranks of Arthur
Clark, who ‘predicted’ the communications satellite.I do enjoy your weekly missive. Until next week.
Deborah Newbury
(More on Philip Jose Farmer.)
Tags: battery, capacitor, science fiction
