9/11 Sphere Sculpture Moving Out Of Battery Park, New Location TBA

The bronze sphere that used to stand in the World Trade Center plaza before getting moved to Battery Park post-9/11 will be getting a new temporary home while the park undergoes a renovation, the location of which will be revealed next week.
The sphere, which was designed by German sculptor Fritz Koenig, survived September 11 with only minor surface damage, and has since served as something of a memorial to the attacks. Last year, when plans for Battery Park's construction were originally announced, some families of 9/11 victims petitioned to have the sculpture moved back to the original WTC site, but officials reportedly wanted to keep the area clear of 9/11 artifacts. The Port Authority says the new location will be "an accessible public space"; originally, they had discussed putting it into storage at John F. Kennedy Airport, which was widely criticized.
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How to Make Your Cell Phone Battery Last Longer

How to Make Your Cell Phone Battery Last Longer

While many of us now use mobile phones in place of land-line phones in our homes, these mobile phones come with Lithium Batteries which require some maintenance as long as they are used.

Increase Time between Charges

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   Turn the phone off. This will probably be the most effective and simple way of conserving your Cell phone battery’s power. Why? This will help conserve energy and also charge your phone. If you don't plan on answering the phone while you're sleeping or after business hours, just turn it off. Do the same if you are in an area with no reception (such as a subway or remote area, since constantly searching for service depletes the battery fairly quickly.) Some phones have an automatic power save feature, but it takes about 30 minutes with no service to kick in. By then, much battery power has been used. If you don't need to receive or make calls but are using a smartphone as a PDA, disable the phone functionality (flight mode).
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   Stop searching for a signal. When you are in an area with poor or no signal, your phone will constantly look for a better connection, and will use up all your power doing so. This is easily understood if you have ever forgotten to turn off your phone on a flight. The best way to ensure longer battery life is to make sure you have a great signal where you use your phone. If you don't have a perfect signal, get a cell phone repeater which will amplify the signal to provide near perfect reception anywhere
    
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   Switch the vibrate function off on your phone, using just the ring tone. The vibrate function uses additional battery power. Keep the ring tone volume as low as possible..
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   Turn off your phone's back light when not in use.
   Turn off your phone's back light. The back light is what makes the phone easier to read in bright light or outside. However, the light also uses battery power. If you can get by without it, your htc bd42100 mobile phone battery will last longer. If you have to use the back light, many phones will let you set the amount of time to leave the back light on. Shorten that amount of time. Usually, one or two seconds will be sufficient. Some phones have an ambient light sensor, which can turn off the back light in bright conditions and enable it in darker ones.
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   Avoid using unnecessary features. If you know it will be a while before your phone’s next charge, don’t use the camera or connect to the Internet. Flash photography can drain your battery especially quickly.
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   Keep calls short. This is obvious, but how many times have you heard someone on their mobile phone say, "I think my battery’s dying," and then continue their conversation for several minutes? Sometimes, the dying battery is just an excuse to get off the phone (and a good one, at that), but if you really need to conserve the battery, limit your talk time.
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   Turn off Bluetooth. It will drain your battery very quickly.
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   Same goes for WIFI, GPS, and infrared capabilities, if your phone has these features built in. Keep them off except when you need them to save power.
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   Turn the brightness of the display to the lowest setting possible.
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    Use GSM rather than 3G - Using your phone in 3G / Dual Mode will drain the battery quicker than if you just use GSM mode - have a look at your phones spec and you'll see it will quote two different battery life times - normally 50% more for pure GSM use.
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    With a smartphone, avoid using moving or animated pictures or videos for your background. Animated backgrounds will drain the battery faster.
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    Use a black background whenever possible. AMOLED screens use a lot less power displaying black instead of white ^[1]. When web browsing use sites like that display a black Google background instead of white.

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Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for iPad Review

The iPad is a content creation tool, Apple insists, not just for consumption, and so Logitech’s Ultrathin Keyboard Cover promises to turn the svelte slate into an instant-on ultraportable notebook of sorts. Still, there have been plenty of attempts at a keyboard for the various iterations of iPad before now, and they’ve seldom hit the spot. Rubbery keys, short travel or unwanted bulk have each taken their toll, leaving iPad owners with a tendency for text-entry to keep looking for the ideal model. Has Logitech got the recipe right? Read on for the SlashGear review.

Logitech’s Ultrathin Keyboard Cover attempts to address those concerns. It’s definitely slim, clipping to the iPad 2 or new iPad using the same Smart Cover magnet technology as Apple’s own flip-covers, and roughly doubling the thickness and adding a few ounces of weight. Open it up, and that same magnet tech kicks the iPad out of standby (and vice-versa when you close it again).

Actually using it requires pulling the iPad away and slotting it into a grove along the upper edge of the keys themselves. The slot itself has magnets to keep the iPad in place, and has just enough room to accommodate the tablet even when wearing a case. It’ll have to be a reasonably slim case, mind; bulkier leather folios will need to be removed. It’s also worth noting that the magnets only line up when the iPad is fitted in landscape orientation; in portrait orientation, you’re relying on the grip of the slot alone to keep things upright, though that certainly proved sufficient in our testing.

In landscape mode, however, you can grab the iPad and lift the whole assembly up, the keyboard clinging to the bottom. The keys themselves are hard plastic, rather than rubber, and flat-topped, with a chiclet design similar to Apple’s own MacBook Pro. It’s not a full-sized layout – the iPad isn’t big enough to accommodate it – but it’s spacious enough, and has sufficient travel, for decent typing speeds rather than the stab-and-peck of other ‘boards we’ve seen.

There are also a number of function keys for iPad-specific features. Triggered by holding down the Fn button and hitting one of the number-row buttons, they include volume up/down/mute, lock, cute/copy/paste, play/pause, search, and quick access to the browser. It’s also possible to select one word at a time, either behind or ahead of the cursor, without having to perform the usual tap-and-hold to pull up the precise selection loupe.

The Logitech’s iPad-matching aluminum casing certainly feels the part, though given it’ll spend its time flat on the table and has no rubber feet to support it, we’re expecting scratches sooner rather than later. A slip-case to accommodate both Ultrathin Keyboard Cover and the iPad itself would be a useful addition, especially given the magnets keeping the two paired can be overcome by a sideways shove.

Bluetooth is used to hook the two sections up, meaning no awkward cords between tablet and keyboard, and we noticed no latency or delay issues. A microUSB cable recharges the non-replaceable battery, and thanks to some aggressive power management Logitech predicts up to six months of runtime from a single charge; that is, assuming you only use the keyboard for two hours a day. A physical power switch avoids any accidental turn-ons in a bag. We’ve obviously not had the Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for long enough to know how accurate Logitech’s laptop battery promise is.

Overall, it’s hard not to be impressed by the new Logitech peripheral. It’s well made, comfortable to type on, and – arguably most important for many iPad owners – matches Apple’s style rather than clashing with it. At $99.99, it’s expensive for a keyboard but, with a high-end Smart Cover being only $30-40 short of that on average, not outlandishly priced. Apple insists the iPad isn’t just a content consumption tool but one that can be used to create as well; if text is your game, then the Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Case should be your weapon of choice.

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Second Wind: Air-Breathing Lithium Batteries Promise Recharge-Free Long-Range Driving--If the Bugs Can Be Worked Out

IBM-led research to create lithium-air electric vehicle batteries gets a boost from Japanese chemical companies toward the goal of 800 kilometers out of a full charge

Researchers predict a new type of lithium hp pavilion tx1000 battery under development could give an electric car enough juice to travel a whopping 800 kilometers before it needs to be plugged in again—about 10 times the energy that today's lithium ion batteries supply. It is a tantalizing prospect—a lighter, longer-lasting, air-breathing power source for the next generation of vehicles—if only someone could build a working model. Several roadblocks stand between these lithium–air batteries and the open road, however, primarily in finding electrodes and electrolytes that are stable enough for rechargeable battery chemistry.
IBM plans to take lithium–air batteries out of neutral by building a working prototype by the end of next year. The company announced Friday it has stepped up development efforts by adding two Japanese technology firms—chemical manufacturer Asahi Kasei Corp. and electrolyte maker Central Glass—to the IBM Battery 500 Project, a coalition IBM established in 2009 to accelerate the switch from gas to electric-powered vehicles among carmakers and their customers.
The lithium ion Acer Aspire One 10.1 batteries used in today's electric vehicles rely on a metal oxide or metal phosphate (typically cobalt, manganese or iron-based materials) cathode as a positive electrode, a carbon-based anode as a negative electrode and an electrolyte to conduct lithium ions from one electrode to the other. When the car is driven, the lithium ions flow from the anode to the cathode through the electrolyte and separator membrane. Charging the battery reverses the direction of ion flow.
Most fully charged lithium ion car batteries today will take an electric vehicle only 160 kilometers before petering out. (Nissan says its all-electric Leaf has a range of about 175 kilometers.) Plug-in electric vehicles such as the Chevy Volt have an even more limited range of up to 80 kilometers before its gas-powered motor must kick in.
The specifics of how lithium–air batteries will operate is still being determined, but the general principal is that, instead of using heavy metal oxides, oxygen would be collected from the air while an electric vehicle is in motion. The oxygen molecules react with lithium ions and electrons on the surface of a porous carbon cathode to form lithium peroxide. This lithium peroxide formation during discharge leads to an electrical current that powers the car's motor. When charging, the reverse reaction takes place—the oxygen is released back to the atmosphere. The anode, meanwhile, is made of lithium, the lightest metal. Without the need for heavy metals the battery for COMPAQ 610  would be several times lighter while being able to store more energy than its lithium ion cousin.
Although this works in a computer simulation, lithium–air batteries have specific requirements in practice that scientists are still trying to meet. "We found out pretty early in the project that the electrolytes currently used in lithium ion batteries do not work in lithium–air batteries because the oxygen in a lithium–air battery attacks and destroys the electrolyte," rendering it unable to conduct a charge, says Winfried Wilcke, Battery 500 Project's principle investigator. One solution, he adds, would be to use two different electrolytes, one for the cathode and a second for the anode, with a membrane in between to keep them from mixing.
That is where IBM's new partners come in. Asahi Kasei will develop a membrane the batteries can use to separate their electrolytes while allowing lithium ions to pass from the anode to the cathode. Central Glass will create a new class of electrolytes and high-performance additives specifically designed to improve lithium–air battery performance.
Another way to gauge the lithium–air battery's potential is to compare it to other batteries in terms of specific energy, or how much energy it produces in relation to its size. Whereas a conventional lead–acid car battery will produce up to 40 watt-hours per kilogram, a lithium ion lenovo ideapad s10-3 20039 battery maxes out at 250 watt-hours per kilogram. A lithium–air battery's potential far exceeds 1,400 watt-hours per kilogram. "I'm shooting for 1,000 watt-hours per kilogram, but we won't have real number for the energy density until we've built a larger prototype," Wilcke says.
The Battery 500 Project is not the only game in town when it comes to developing lithium–air batteries. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing a lithium–air battery with carbon nanofiber electrodes. And, Yangchuan Xing, an associate professor of chemical and biological engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, received an Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA–E) award for $1.2 million last year to develop lithium–air batteries.
Wilcke estimates the lithium–air sony vaio vpceb11gx batteries might be ready for production by 2020 at the earliest, "if we don't find any show-stopping technology along the way." He adds: "The only thing I'm certain of is that it won't happen this decade."

Strategic transformation in the bath "blood" born again, lead-acid battery crisis

2011 lithium everywhere is supposed to let the mainstream of old batteries - lead-acid batteries, staying behind the scenes, but high hopes for the lithium-ion battery because the battery technology and markets a variety of reasons, unable to guide the industry. Shengyang Power Supply and camels shares based on lead-acid dell xps m1330 batteries in May 2011 and June worked in the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and the Shanghai Stock Exchange for listing, on March 16 this year the Guangdong Menshy Power Technology Co., Ltd. released the prospectus. intended to be listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in the near future, lead-acid battery enterprises listed indicates that the lead-acid batteries will continue to be one of the protagonists of the battery industry for a long period of time.

ll blood lead frequent incidents of lead-acid batteries halt

At present, there are about 80% of lead in the gold used for the manufacture of lead-acid batteries, used in profiles, lead alloys, coatings and other areas of the lead metal content of only about 20%. The past two years, blood lead poisoning are frequently reported, and everyone heard the lead to discoloration, the country having an impact on blood lead poisoning cases involving lead in lead-acid battery enterprises.

The blood lead event makes lead-acid acer aspire 3000 battery contamination has been widespread concern in the lead-acid battery industry has brought to the cusp. In March 2011, nine departments of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the National Development and Reform Commission, the State Council jointly lead-acid battery industry enterprises to conduct a thorough investigation, a comprehensive renovation of environmental law issues; the Ministry of Environmental Protection issued the May 18 on the strengthening of the lead-acid batteries and Secondary Lead Industry pollution prevention work notice "it would most stringent measures to fully remediation of lead-acid battery industry, lead recycling industry efforts to curb the trend of lead pollution accident-prone," shutting down "and" rectification "has become a frequently used lead-acid battery industry the highest terms.

ll industry governance policies have been introduced, enterprise transformation is imminent

In March 2012, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Environmental Protection to study and draft the lead-acid battery for Dell Vostro 1700 industry access conditions (draft) "(hereinafter referred to as" access ") officially released to the public for comments. This means that since last year, nationwide rectification of the lead-acid battery industry into a new phase of industry consolidation efforts will further increase.

In early 2012, the Ministry of Industry issued 19 key industries of the industrial areas of the "12th Five-Year" period to eliminate backward production capacity objectives and tasks, an increase of copper smelting, lead smelting, zinc smelting, tanning, dyeing, chemical fiber, lead-acid batteries in seven industries, lead-acid batteries eliminate backward production capacity to a specific mandate to 7.46 million KVA. Countries to rectify the lead-acid battery industry through policy governance, many small and medium-sized competitors will gradually withdraw from the transformation of integration and product upgrades will become the main trends of the industry's future. In this context, the strategic transformation will be the inevitable choice of the lead-acid battery business. The face of the constraints of external energy saving and environmental protection requirements, how to take targeted measures in the business layout, product selection, technical R & D management system is the key to the strategic transformation of lead-acid battery business. By opportunities for industry consolidation, through the acquisition of bigger and stronger? Or to strengthen the prevention and control of pollution sources, to create a new circular economy? Or based on the main lead-acid battery industry, the use of the advantage of a variety of resources into the lithium-ion HP 577093-001 battery, new battery? ... This will be the lead-acid battery companies must carefully think about the problem.

l l crisis underlines the wisdom, opportunities to achieve development

A strategic transformation of the machine in accordance with

Lead-acid battery industry is in a period of consolidation, subject to the impact of the industry to raise the threshold of new competitors is not enough to pose a threat to existing enterprises in the industry, so that the existing companies need to seize this opportunity to weigh the future direction of development of the enterprise, thinking the need for strategic transformation. Strategic transformation is a fundamental change in the enterprise, usually in a particular context, the background of corporate restructuring with its own characteristics to determine the strategic transformation of the mode. Lead-acid battery for acer aspire 5315 industry, business transformation can be roughly divided into a reconfigurable transformation, recycling-type transformation, innovation-transformation and regeneration of transition.

Reconfigurable transformation is driven by the crisis, the technical level and internal level of employee behavior and cognitive change, through the reorganization of internal structure and mode of behavior to complete the transformation, the goal is short-term efficiency improvements; recycling-type transition is driven by changes in the external environment business process re-design business, management and operation of transformation in order to short-term efficiency improvements and a certain degree of long-term capacity enhancement; innovation is the transformation is driven by internal innovation is the enterprise of cognitive and behavioral change, its goal is to enhance the long-term viability; regenerative transition from the external drivers of change within the technical aspects of corporate behavior and cognitive changes, the goal is short-term benefits and long-term development capacity simultaneously.

Production and processing enterprises, equipment and raw materials to invest a larger proportion of lead-acid LifeBook S6110 battery production enterprises are only ahead of the strategic transformation plan, in order to do effective docking of the old and new management and business in the future development of their own rapid growth.

Avenue tangible road, lead-acid battery business transformation

(1) by industry consolidation opportunities to realize their bigger and stronger. Government regulation of lead-acid battery industry turmoil makes a large number of small businesses to be shut down, remediation and vicious competition in the industry has largely been limited, the future profitability of the business within the industry is expected to increase, competitive enterprises should make use of government regulation to guide the whole industry healthy development; same time, enterprises taken over by way of merger and reorganization was forced to shut down small businesses to expand their production capacity, shut down by filling the market gap left by the small business, expand market share, achieve economies of scale by the enterprises themselves, while so that the whole industry to the development of intensive, large-scale and specialized directions to enhance the combined effect of the industry.

(2) based on lead-acid battery business into the lithium-ion battery for IBM THINKPAD R40 and new battery. With the continuous development of strategic new industries, new energy has become another giant of the new century high-tech industries, energy battery has become the hotspot of global economic development, as green and efficient lithium-ion battery with its unique advantages, gradually occupy a broader market. Lead-acid battery industry, there is the advantage of enterprise development can be based on lead-acid battery industry, based on, into the lithium-ion batteries and new battery, progressive strategic transformation.

(3) and downstream enterprises to create "Industry Alliance", to increase market share. Lead-acid battery industry through the integration, smaller, and environmental non-compliant enterprises are shut down, the renovation and expansion and new projects extremely difficult to obtain approval, a substantial decline in industry supply, but the rigid requirements of the battery has not diminished, resulting in The rising prices of lead-acid batteries, battery manufacturers therefore enhance the bargaining power of downstream demand. Battery manufacturers can seize the opportunities available to industry alliance formed with the needs of enterprises of automobiles, motorcycles and electric bicycles and other downstream cell, the signing of the demand price agreement, to achieve their own sales at the same time can guarantee the upstream and downstream enterprises in order to stabilize prices get the fujitsu stylistic st5010 battery to achieve a win-win situation.

(4) upstream and downstream industry chain integration, internalization of the industrial chain to reduce pollution. Production of plates of lead-acid battery industry in China, enterprises and production lead-acid battery business is a separate operation, plate production, after drying transported to downstream manufacturers for assembly, this process will inevitably lead to sewage emissions, energy consumption is a serious lead dust emissions from large, competitive enterprises to the whole industry chain of the lead-acid batteries to improve and integrate, extend the industrial chain to the upstream raw materials and downstream assembly, internalization of the industrial chain can greatly reduce pollution, lower environmental costs.

(5) and stronger recovery links, to create a new circular economy. The most important part of domestic pollution caused by lead-acid battery recycling link has not been done, so the battery manufacturers should pay attention to the recycling of used toshiba satellite p15-s479 battery  and Secondary Lead to strengthen the link of waste battery recycling, starting from the point of view of the circular economy, to create a "production - sales - closed loop recycling - reproduction "mode of production. Reduce pollution at the same time, allows businesses to obtain a stable supply of raw materials at a lower cost.
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Test Explodes Electric-Car Battery, Injuring General Motors Lab Worker

General Motors Co. GM +1.12%said an electric-car battery undergoing tests at a Warren, Mich., research center exploded, sending an employee to the hospital.
The lithium-ion battery exploded at about 9 a.m. Wednesday at GM's Technical Center, where the auto maker designs and develops new vehicles, a spokesman said. Emergency personnel examined five employees on the scene and transported one to a local hospital, he said.
The explosion is the latest glitch in the auto industry's efforts to bring electric vehicles to market. GM's battery-powered Volt and Nissan Motor Co.'s 7201.TO +0.84% Leaf had disappointing sales in their first year, and several start-up companies producing batteries for electric cars have struggled.
Warren Mayor Jim Fouts said in an interview the lab explosion blew out three of the building's exterior windows and an eight-inch-thick door. The building will likely need extensive renovations, he said. "They had extreme testing going on," he said.

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A123 Systems, which made the battery that exploded during 'extreme' testing, will make batteries for the Chevrolet Spark, pictured, in January.

GM said the explosion occurred when chemical gases released from the battery ignited inside a closed chamber. Damage was confined to the lab, which has windows and doors designed to give way in a blast, a spokesman said. GM and the city's fire department are investigating.
The GM employee taken to the hospital was listed in stable condition with a suspected concussion and chemical burns, according to a city official.
The experimental battery involved in Wednesday's incident was being developed for all-electric cars, including a coming line of Spark subcompacts, and is made by A123 Systems Inc., AONE -0.95% people familiar with the matter said. An official from A123 wasn't available for comment.
A123 last month said it would recall defective battery packs developed for auto makers that were produced at its Livonia, Mich., plant. A flaw in the manufacturing process led to defective packs that could cause them to fail, the company said then.
A123, which is owned in part by General Electric Co., GE +1.53% is one of several battery companies that built production facilities with aid from the U.S. government. A123 received $249 million in federal grants to build battery facilities.
Fisker Automotive Inc., the maker of a $100,000 plug-in hybrid sports car, and Smith Electric Vehicles, of Kansas City, Mo., are among A123's electric-vehicle battery customers.
A different type of lithium-ion battery, made by South Korea's LG Chem Ltd., was at the center of a fire safety investigation into GM's Volt last year.
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration cleared Volt, which uses a gasoline engine as well as a battery, in January, saying the car is no more dangerous than traditional gasoline-powered vehicles. But the incident led to months of adverse publicity, which GM executives say hurt the Volt's sales.
Batteries in that lab undergo testing in which they are damaged, exposed to extreme heat and cold, shaken, and doused with water in an effort to ensure they are safe.
In 4 p.m. trading, A123's shares were up five cents to 94 cents a share on the Nasdaq Stock Market. GM shares were up 32 cents at $24.03 on the New York Stock Exchange.
—Matthew Dolan contributed to this article.
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