Ion Gorita Chairman

Mr. Ion Gorita (Romania), Chairman (2005)

The net charge on an ion is equal to the number of protons in the ion minus the number of electrons.

Yeah, we have an ion drive now.

And you make if from lithium. That reaction at the bottom, that's lithium 6, plus a neutron, will give you more helium, plus tritium.

These are all the patients that started lithium.

This is a report about a drug called lithium.

Battery Monitor (batmon)

Monitor battery status

Battery Charge Graph

The battery died.

Battery is low!

They're proteins that are controlling things like ion channel movement.

Likewise, the chemical manufacturer Kureha ( 130 billion in annual sales) has a 70 share of the global market for adhesive materials for lithium ion batteries a small but essential component of cell phones. Nokia in Finland, for example, imports 12 of its cell phone components from Japan, and thus could be indirectly affected by the disaster.

Ten percent of the people in our system took lithium.

And he took lithium, and he went down the line.

And lithium is in sea water. That's the yellow line.

We don't have the Enterprise, but we've got an ion drive now.

In SEPAC, accelerated ion and electron beams were ejected from the space shuttle.

We have a little battery and on this little battery that computer will run for five years without needing replacement.

It's odd. It has a battery.

My phone is out of battery.

And that means that a transistor corresponds to about 12 ion channels in parallel.

And these transistors are behaving essentially just like ion channels behave in the brain.

What is the cost of that battery?

The battery has run out of power.

And going forward, you actually don't want to be a lithium patient this time.

The big thing, on the right, is the lithium we have in the world.

The nuclear materials in question are plutonium, uranium, thorium, deuterium, tritium and lithium 6.

So it should be possible to extract valuable elements like lithium for high performance batteries.

Battery powered, it is silent and rarely noticed.

You drive. You take your depleted battery out.

And so, this stuff is like battery acid.

I warmed the battery up in my armpit.

The battery of my MP3 player was empty.

We invented something called an ion drive, which is a very, very, very low thrust engine.

You don't reset, or recharge your battery every time.

The most expensive thing is the battery inside this.

A full battery comes on. And you drive on.

The battery in this sense, is the crude oil.

But the crude oil is replaced with a battery.

This is the only part that's battery backed up.

Some can also be connected to the car battery.

And you start having the same kind of traffic jams that you have in the ion channel.

And then, of course, as you get older, it's almost like age is a form of lithium.