lithium. now, it's lithium. lithium, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, lithium 5 and 1, 2-- what's the atomic number, gang? - 3. - 3. and you keep going right up the periodic table and then you come way up to what is the heaviest element found in large proportions in nature and that happens to be uranium. and uranium has 92 protons and most uranium has 238 nucleons. if i asked you people hey, uranium, honey, 238 nucleons, how many of those nucleons are protons? and you gotta know. you would say... 92. what if i said how many nucleons in the nucleus? you would say? 238. now here's where you need your calculator. how many of those nucleons are neutrons? and you would say... of course, you'd have to subtract, okay? you take this number, take away this number, and you guys say about 146, huh? you'd have 146 neutrons in that nucleus. so we have all the atoms, all the atoms which differ from one another principally by the number of protons in the nucleus, because anything that has three protons will hold three electrons, no matter how m

lithium-ion. it is a lot of weight and gives 16 kilowatts of energy. what does that do? the battery can run a lot further. instead of 40 miles, maybe 140 miles. so, i believe in my lifetime and technology, there is an ever escalating improvement. you have to be optimistic about it that battery technology will improve in the next 20 to 25 years. >> a mix of fuels as opposed to one. >> yes. i think the crowning, the holy grail, if you will, is the fuel cells. we have a fleet. the technology works, it is just very expensive. the chemistry is very complicated and quite frankly, it takes about two ounces of platinum. now we have it down to argue quarter ounce of platinum. when i was with general instrument, as you mentioned, we invented high definition television. the first copy cost us $450,000. now you are buying them wherever you are buying televisions for $200. it took a while. you will see costs of hydrogen fuel cells. we put 3 million miles on hydrogen fuel cells today. the cars cost $400,000. now we are down to 350. hopefully in the next ten years, we get it down to 35

we go to a string of lithium batteries in the trunk and your mileage jumps from 25 to 33%. it is cleaner and you are in the city in that mode. you are seeing the evolution here and you can see where it's going over time. the more creative we are and the greater energy density that we can get into a cell battery, the better off we're going to be. we are investing. this is the new gm. we put $100 million into gm ventures. it sounds like a private equity firm. we don't have all of the answers. you have the entrepreneurs with their life and soul and their grandmother's inheritance. they invest everything and they live and die with that. i like that intensity. we get the opportunity to kind of walk around the technology and see if it has an auto application. the corporation was picked up in your papers here. that is a promising technology. we don't know if it is industrialized yet. >> it is a company that claims to have made a break through in energy density in car batteries. >> yes. lithium-ion. it is a lot of weight and gives 16 kilowatts of energy. what does that do? the batt

it can travel 40 hours on electric power alone using advanced technology, lithium ion battery. the truck also has an onboard generator that can extend the pickup's range and can bring temporary power to neighborhoods while crews repair an outage. >>> starting next month, anyone parking in downtown walnut creek will not have to carry change for the parking meters. walnut creek has installed 1000 new parking meters that will accept credit cards or coins. city leaders hope that the high- tech meters will allow users to use their smart phone to check for available parking spaces and pay for parking. >>> the clouds starting to lift across the bay area. some drizzle, even a few light showers out there, looking towards the oakland estuary and san francisco in the distance. you can see some clearing skies. here is where the rainfall is. it is way up to our north as you can see. clouds beginning to clear out. winds have not been picking up. winds gusting at 29 miles per hour and sfo, the most recent gust of up to 30 miles per hour. forecast headlines for today, we do have this. clouds a

they were recalled because of a potential electrical short in the motor's lithium ion battery. metro is working with the manufacturer new flyer to retrofit the energy storage system on the buses to eliminate the problem. in extreme cases metro says the battery overheated causing smoke and minor damage inside the engine. this comes months after fox 5 reported a rise in engine failures on metro's diesel electric hybrid buses made by the same company. metro reported the problem in june after seeing an increase in breakdowns in those buses and a decrease in reliability. problems with the cooling system were blamed for the engine failures and metro said it was working with new flyer to resolve the problem. despite this metro says its hybrid buses are safe and continue to outperform diesel only buses. the newest hybrids will stay in service. metro says they are safe, but it will step up inspections until the retrofitting is complete in may. >>> meantime the bus drivers union in montgomery county filing an official grievance after five ride-on buses caught fire in recent years. laura

metro's buses are being voluntarily recalled due to potential electrical shortages in the motor's lithium ion battery. in extreme cases, the battery overheated causing smoke and minor damage inside the engine. >>> the bus drivers union in montgomery county filed an official grievance after five ride-on buses caught fire in recent years. the union wants two bus models taken taken out of circulation immediately. the county says riders would be stranded in the buses were pulled all at once but they are being replaced over the next six months. months. . >>> a show of protest in the trayvon martin death got one congressman reprimanded. see what he did on the house floor. >>> we have new video now of chaos on that airplane. a pilot locked out of the cockpit and screaming at passengers. we're checking more headlines on the other side of the break. ♪ beth! hi! looking good. you've lost some weight. thanks. you noticed. these clothes are too big, so i'm donating them. how'd you do it? eating right -- whole grain. [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those

remember interviewing a woman by the name of leah who started leer's magazine and she said when she took lithium it really made the difference and all of that tal 1-866-331-talk 1-866-331-talk talk didn't do that much for her but that is not the view today. the view today is, you tell me if i'm wrong, you talk and you take the pill; that right? >> most of the studies show the best effect is a combination of psychotherapy or talk and the medication. i happen to think medication plays the biggest role. on the other hand, we are symbolic creatures. we talk. we use language and want to express how we feel. it's important. that's not as sufficient once people have the biological problems where they can't sleep and they don't want to eat, things like. that then they need the medications. >> so you think the medication is more efficacious than the talk? >> for certain people, yes. >> for certain people? >> yes. >> what about averages? >> i still think in most depressions, they're biological and the medication is the most important component of it. >> do you think that we only have seen the tip of the i

lithium ion. the battery in the volt is a 400 pound battery. that is a lot of weight. what happens if it's so dense that it's four times as dense? we have 64 kilo watts. do what does that do? the car can run a lot further. instead of 40 miles, it will run 140 miles. so i believe in my lifetime technology there's this ever escalating improvement and you have to be optimistic about it. battery technology will improve over the next 5, 10, 15, 20 years. >> hearing that, it sounds like away from petroleum and batteries and mix of fuels. >> yes. i think the holy grail will be hydrogen fuel cells. by the way, we have a fleet of hydrogen -- this technology works. it's just very, very expensive. the chemistry is extraordinarily complicated. quite frankly, we're spending -- takes about -- first it costs about two ounces of platinum. you have looked at platinum prices late sfli now we have it down to a half to a quarter ounce of platinum. but that -- when i was with general instruments, you mentioned we were the company that literally invented digital definition television. the f

it's powered by lithium batteries and the body is made of a synthetic foam and the color, cameron callswasaki green. there is a steel sphere inside where he will pilot the sub. >> so this is my window right here. >> and it's designed to withstand the depth's intense pressure and keep cameron alive. >> i basically have a fully redundant, independent life support system. i can live on either side for about 25 hours or combined 50 hours. which is a lot longer than i would want to be in this. >> it's got a camera i can move way out from the sub. >> how do you get a camera at that depth to operate? >> you have to make it. >> i don't know of any that do. >> they're still a bit finnicy. >> do you have a name for them? >> we call them the mini cams. real clever, huh? >> do you strap yourself in when you go down? >> it's not like you're in a jet where you're getting slammed around. i'm used to clamoring around in this thing. >> but it is like a jet and the cockpit is very small. >> once we get all the gear inside, we have to figure out how to get ourselves in the diving position. i'm going to sh

it powered by specially created lithium batteries. is made up of a foam developed by a team of scientists. that color is kawasaki green. >> it's one camera encased in a protective pod. >> how tall are are you? >> 6'2". >> it is a tight fit. >> i'm pretty much like this for ten hours. >> you're not worried about cramps or anything? >> not yet. >> he expects time will pass as he captures images and sea life from the ocean floor. >> i can slurp up little critters or suck on to an animal, pick him up and drop him into a bio box. >> if something goes wrong, there is a safety system, a series of weights released with a switch. it brings comfort to his mother. >> i love my family and nothing i love more but is also have to do this. jimmy stewart said in "how the west was won," sometimes you have to go see the critter. >> there's a lot of talk about the risks involved here. but he's been on at least 70 submersible dives, 50 of those to deep sea depths. he's well wear of the risks involved here but it is a man dedicated to science and driven b

. >> today's phones have a lithium ion. >> they have fiefs00 cycles. >> do you worry about reducing the lifespan of your battery? >> i think they do tell you that but i don't want to believe it. >> one cycle is not every time you plug it in. some researchers say let your phone dip to 50%. then recharge. you'll get 1500 of those cycles. three other tips for your phone. >> efficient services. >> turn off the gps on everything but your mapping location. >> your location is turned on for all of these applications that say on. >> cbs news -- >> you want that one. >> of course. >> reporter: only use wi-f fi at home. turn off the cellular data. >> more table at home. doesn't fluctuate in service. >> and turn off the background apps. android phones have app killers. on iphones, just double click the home location. apple and berry can use mobile packs. >> it's an extra case connected right to your device that charges it on the go. >> samsung set a goal with smart phones coming in 2012, will last all day, under average to moderately heavy use. the company is planning on using bigger batteries and

actually made this breakthrough a press lease called envia on the world regardcord, a rechargeable lithiumes and they reached -- >> a battery for the electric vehicle. if i am driving a car with an envia battery, how far can i go without having to recharge? >> actually, it's. >> our goal is to make electric vehicles have about the same range. >> right. >> and cost as a gasoline-based cars so that you cancelli electric vehicles using domestic production and you can sell them without sudbsidiessubsidies. >> for people who have cars who want the opportunity to not put $ $4 a gallon gasoline if they have an electric vehicle, that means they would be able to have an affordable car? >> if you look at today's electricity prices and want to, you know, create the equivalence with gasoline it is about a dollar a gallon. okay? that's the price of electricity in the cooling form in terms of oil prices. >> assuming you are getting your electricity electricity, that you don't have solar panels and you are not generating your own electricity. >> buy from the utility. >> right. >> it's about a dollar a ga

they were recalled because of a potential electrical short in the motor's lithium ion battery. and they trying to eliminate the problem. in extreme cases, metro said the battery overheated causing smoke and minor damage inside the engine and this is months after fox 5 reported a rise in engine failures on metro's diesel electric hybrid buses made by the same company. metro reported the problem in june after seeing an increase in some breakdowns in those buses and reliability. the problems with the cools system were blamed for those engine failures, and metro said it was working to resolve that problem and despite this, the hybrid buses continue to outperform the diesel-only buses. in the latest case, they will stay in service. metro said that they are safe and will step up inspections until the retrofitting is completed in may. and the buses are among 152 new hybrids ordered for $89 million not all of them have the same energy stored system. metro is still waiting for five more buses and said they will be fixed before metro receives them. >> thank you. >>> and fox 5 is monitori

but the lithium carbonate keeps you like this. >> our goal is to get people with mental illness out intoeneral population, to have jobs, to go to school and to do everything that everybody else does here. so they're all throughout the facility. >> most of these guys are going to be returning to the streets. not everyone is sent to prison with a life sentence. and with that in mind, i think i would feel safer and feel better about these people going back to the streets with the kind of skills that we can provide them, instead of just opening the doors when their sentence is done and hoping the best. >> there are successful graduates of the rtu program. terry mahler has 35 years left on his sentence for his sex offense crime. he was not able to function in general population. >> i've been diagnosed with clinical depression and extreme stressful situations. i hear voices, noise-induced paranoia. anxiety attacks. sometimes when you get into a big crowd, you know, your mental illness seems to just explode. and it got to the point where i didn't want to live anymore. i just wanted to kill myse

powered by the specially created lithium batteries and its body made of sin tat tactic foam developedou see, cameron calls that kawasaki green. >> i'm used to clamoring around in this thing. >> reporter: a one-seater, cameron will be encased in a pod. >> how tall are you? >>

powered by the specially created lithium batteries and its body made of sin tat tactic foam developedou see, cameron calls that kawasaki green. >> i'm used to clamoring around in this thing. >> reporter: a one-seater, cameron will be encased in a pod. >> how tall are you? >> 6'2". >> easier built for me. >> it is a tight fit. >> pretty much like this about ten hours. >> you're not worried about cramps or anything? >> not yet. >> cameron expects time will pass as he captures 3d images and hopefully sea life from the trench's floor as he has already done on previous tests. >> i can actually slurp up little crittering o

you goconduct a 12-volt battery that will run your radio everything else but we go to a string of lithiumion batteries in your trunk and your mileage will jump anywhere from 25 to 30, 33%. again, it's cleaner and in the city when you're on that mode, so you are saying that evolution here and you can see where it's going over time. and the more creative we are, the greater energy density that we can get into a cell battery, the better off we're going to be. so we were investing, i mean, this is the new gm, with a $100 million in the gm ventures. sounds like a private equity firm, doesn't it? we don't have all the answers, and you have these entrepreneurs, these wonderful entrepreneurs that their life and the soul and their grandmother's inheritance, they invest in everything and they live and die with that. i like that intensity, and look at the opportunity to kind of walk around the technology and see if it has automotive application. so here in california, i think is picked up in your papers you, that's a very promising technology. we'll go if if it's industrialized yet but we have seen

she mentioned being bipolar, i said did she take lithium. she said yes. i asked if she took it today she said know. american airlines says we apologize. >> i do think the situation would have been extremely out of control if we had been in the air. i thank god we were not. >> reporter: an hour later than planned. the flight was airborne for chicago. after the unidentified flight attendant, handcuffed kicking and screaming was taken to a police cruiser, waiting on the tarmac. no charges have been filed. >>> united nations special envoy is in serious this morning scheduled to meet with bashar ass assad. what does he realistically hope to achieve, given the opposition will then seemingly welcomed it? >> reporter: well, he's expected to ask for an immediate cease-fire and end to the violence when he meets with officials, he'll also be meeting with helps of the opposition tomorrow. he favors a political solution to this crisis but does not believe further mill tarrizing is called for. that means many feel this is more talking. that the time for talking is long

even though it's on its side, it's 24 feet high, powered business by these specially created lithiumybe of a syntactic foam. the color is kawasaki green. >> reporter: it's a one-seater, designed to have cameron encased in a protective pod. how tall are you? >> 6'2". >> reporter: it is a tight fit. >> i'm pretty much like this for about ten hours. >> reporter: you're not worried about cramps or anything? >> not yet. >> reporter: cameron expects time pill pass as he captures 3-d images and hopefully sea life from the trench's floor as he has already done on previous test dives. >> i can actually slurp up little critters or suck on to an animal and pick him up and drop him into a biobox. >> reporter: there is a fail safe system, a series of weights released with the flip of a switch. it brings comfort to cameron's mother who worries. >> i love my family. my kids, there's nothing i love more but i also have to do this. i have to go look. it's like jimmy stewart says in "how the west was won" sometimes you have to see the critter. >> reporter: the challenger's frontier awaits. >> i love t

store so made in marysville, washington, silicon energy company, doing advanced nanotechnology for lithium ion battery storage energy doing altar capacitors. these are spectacular things you're doing, and because of your success, which i believe we're going to have, my granddaughter is going to have a shot of having a world that looks like the one we've got. and i know you're going to be catching a lot of arrows in your back for those who are naysayers and believe that a negative voice is an american what i believe a positive voice is an american one and going to grow this economy and give my granddaughter a shot and a foot else a world that looks like arthur i want to thank you, and keep it up. >> the gentleman's time has expired. recognize the gentleman from kansas, mr. pompeo for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you secretary chu for being here today. i want the world to look great for my son as well. entity that i think what to do things that work is ongoing to acts about projects that your body is insane to spend money and to ask whether there were conducted in the pres

and even though it's on its side it's actually 24 feet high and powered by these specially created lithiumctic foam and that color he calls it kawasaki green. >> it's a one-seater designed to have cameron encased in a protective pod. >> how tall are you? >> 6'2". >> reporter: and it would be easier if it was built for me. >> it is a tight fit. >> i'm pretty much like this for about ten hours. >> you're not worried about cramps or anything? >> not yet. >> cameron expects time will pass as he captures 3d images and hopefully sea life from the trench's floor as he has already done on previous test dives. >> i can actually slurp up little critters or i can suck on to an animal and pick him up and drop him on to a biobox. if something goes wrong there is a fail safe system, a series of weights released with the flip of a switch. it brings little comfort to cameron's morgue who worries. >> i love my family and my children and nothing i love more, but i also have to do this. it's like jimmy stewart, how the west was one. sometimes you have to go see the critter. the challenger's frontier awaits.

it runs on lithium batteries. at challenger deep some 36,000 feet down. the idea is to spend as little time as possible descending and ascending and spend as much time possible down there on the seafloor. cameron talked to me about how the subwill move in the water and what safety measures are in place just in case something goes wrong. >> so it does say vertical like a sea horse. >> it just stays up right, it's the same idea. we're pushing from the center of a tall object. we just do it like this. it's like a gravity rocket aimed at the center of the earth. it's designed to go down fast and column fast. >> if you do get stuck on the bottom for whatever reason, if your weights don't drop, there's a way to jettison. multiple ways to jettison. the very last one is you have to wait for a link to dissolve. it eventually dissolves in sea water and the weighting fall off. >> simple way of coming back just in case something goes wrong. in addition to putting -- this all about science. and there's a slurp gun, i know that

into things like certain metals whether it's copper or some of the metals used in batteries like lithiumver, the things that we use every hour every day, every week, every month, like energy, might be off on their own little tangent. and indeed the fed might have to make some adjustments to what level of certain commodity inflation it's willing to tolerate, which is fascinating because next week, we're going to hear from the fed. we have supply next week, not this week. right now, yields object long end or a couple of basis points lower and not moving very aggressively. back to you. >> thank you, rick. good to talk with you. i like interacting with you. you make a lot of horse sense. let's check out the latest news in energy and metals. bertha coombs is at the nymex. >> we have a mixed picture here as far as energy. a little bit of a bounceback yesterday in part on nice headlines coming out of china. china says it is going to boost energy imports in 2012. it's helping brent. but at this hour, wti nymex crude under some pressure. we have negative negative for nymex crude from api, the ind

now, researchers at battery maker envia have invented a way to double the density of lithium ion batteries, hastening the arrival of $20,000 cars that travel 300 miles per charge. that research is permitting us in the case of shale gas to find more american energy, and in the case of electric batteries, to use less of it. that is why i argue that the united states should launch a series of mini-manhattan projects with the same focus and determination of the original world war ii manhattan project. this time with the goal of finding more energy and finding ways to use less of it. the united states has a resource no other country has -- dozens of major research universities, 17 national laboratories that can advance research on cheaper solar, better batteries, recapturing carbon from coal plants, biofuels from crops we don't eat, better ways to dispose of used nuclear fuel, offshore wind, green buildings and even fusion. to pay for doubling the $5 billion the united states now spends on energy research, congress should end current tax breaks that are exclusively or mostly for both big oil an