I knew this from my childhood, when we used to put exhausted carbon batteries to the sunlight for a couple of hours, to discover that they have gained some charge, and could be used again.
Today I read in the newspaper that 2 lost young men lost in the mountains could re-charge the Ni-Cd battery of a cell phone by exposing it to the sunlight for 15 minutes. The battery gained enough charge as to let them send some SMS with their position, and finally they were rescued.
Can anyone explain me the physical / chemical basis for this phenomena?
2007-04-09
05:08:27
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