Thread: N900 battery life questions, issues, scenarios
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2009-12-03 , 19:04
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#348
Originally Posted by Flandry View Post
Essentially the only way to get higher density than by using the extremely lightweight lithium atom (remember, it's element 3 on the periodic table, so you get lots of atoms (and electrons) per gram) is to use hydrogen (atomic number 1).
To increase energy & power density - that is, energy & power in a fixed volume - the problem isn't weight.

The lightweight property of lithium atoms is irrelevant to that.

Your description works very well when you desire the best energy-to-weight ratio, but I think I wouldn't mind if the N900's battery were twice as heavy, if it lasted twice as long.