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Thursday, July 9, 2009

Methanol could power artificial muscles

Scientists have experimented with artificial muscles for decades. These often work by converting electricity into mechanical energy, but the problem there is that batteries neither deliver energy very quickly nor store energy efficiently given the space they occupy, explained.

Instead of using batteries, artificial muscles could rely on chemical fuels, suggests. For instance, methanol, or wood alcohol, which can blind people, "has 30 times the energy storage density of a conventional battery," he said.


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