Lithium-Ion Battery Availability is an Industry Issuehttp://en.community.dell.com/blogs/direct2dell/archive/2008/03/26/Lithium_2D00_Ion-Battery-Availability-is-an-Industry-Issue.aspxBoth Gizmodo and Engadget got it right in their read of a Reuters story from earlier this morning about the impact a March 3 fire at LG Chem is having on the global supply of Li-ion cells used in laptop battery packs. It&#39;s affecting the industry supplyenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)re: Lithium-Ion Battery Availability is an Industry Issuehttp://en.community.dell.com/blogs/direct2dell/archive/2008/03/26/Lithium_2D00_Ion-Battery-Availability-is-an-Industry-Issue.aspx#53657Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:31:56 GMTe3197daa-ef0d-4a70-8402-29215ff9a0f2:53657Charles SotoI&#39;m waiting for the Ethanol Fuel Cell. This will give me a (believable) reason to carry around the flask on business trips =)<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://en.community.dell.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=53657" width="1" height="1">re: Lithium-Ion Battery Availability is an Industry Issuehttp://en.community.dell.com/blogs/direct2dell/archive/2008/03/26/Lithium_2D00_Ion-Battery-Availability-is-an-Industry-Issue.aspx#52192Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:17:29 GMTe3197daa-ef0d-4a70-8402-29215ff9a0f2:52192aikiwolfie<p>Other great ways to save laptop batteries are to use power newer more efficient technologies like SSDs instead of HDDs and reduce the load on the CPU by using a more efficient and stable OS. Like Ubuntu!&nbsp;</p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://en.community.dell.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=52192" width="1" height="1">re: Lithium-Ion Battery Availability is an Industry Issuehttp://en.community.dell.com/blogs/direct2dell/archive/2008/03/26/Lithium_2D00_Ion-Battery-Availability-is-an-Industry-Issue.aspx#52062Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:45:23 GMTe3197daa-ef0d-4a70-8402-29215ff9a0f2:52062jervis961<p>Perhaps <a class="" href="http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/10079837/Now_is_the_time_Dell__start_using_a_different_battery_technology" target="_blank">now is the time to switch to a new technology</a>.&nbsp; The other technologies cannot be any more expensive than the current prices.&nbsp; </p> <p><img alt="" src="http://216.77.188.54/coDataImages/p/Groups/305/305307/folders/264971/2297111battery.JPG" /></p> <p><a href="http://video.gearlive.com/video/article/q108-ces-2008-video-zpower-silver-zinc-batteries/">http://video.gearlive.com/video/article/q108-ces-2008-video-zpower-silver-zinc-batteries/</a></p><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://en.community.dell.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=52062" width="1" height="1">