DuPont 8-pound pack wins wearable power prize

[unhappycamper]

DuPont 8-pound pack wins wearable power prize
By William H. McMichael - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Oct 7, 2008 5:57:55 EDT

A team from DuPont has won the Pentagon’s Wearable Power Prize competition, producing a super-lightweight power pack that produces at least 20 watts of power for more than 96 hours.

The competition, launched in July 2007 by the Pentagon’s Research and Engineering Directorate to give troops a long-endurance, lightweight power pack, concluded Oct. 4 at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, Calif.

The entries of all six finalists met power and time parameters. But the DuPont/Smart Fuel Cell team was the lightest, coming in at 8.293 pounds. That was 28 grams lighter — a bit less than an ounce — than the entry of the second-place finisher, AMI of Ann Arbor, Mich. Jenny 600S of Middleburg, Va., took third place.

The entries of all finalists weighed less than 8.8 pounds.

“These systems show great promise to reduce the weight of batteries (troops) have to carry while performing their critical missions,” said William Rees Jr., deputy undersecretary for defense laboratories and basic sciences.


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[zanne]

1. That sounds very promising for all of us. nt