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Indian American teen invents wondrous 20-sec charger
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- macarthy12 13y agoI'm so sick of this bogus story.
- dragonbonheur 13y agoWhy do you think it's a bogus story?
- cheald 13y agoBecause supercaps aren't new and don't have the energy density of conventional lithium batteries, so they're completely impractical for use in something like a cell phone, unless you fancy carrying around a power pack in a backpack. The fact that the device has only been tested on an LED (which will draw ~40mW) and is being heralded as a cure for slow-charging chemical battery packs which will draw something like 30x that and have to store something like 5.2 watt-hours of juice should be a pretty solid giveaway.
- acqq 13y agoThe only first-hand info I was able to find up to now, anybody has more? http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/education/competitions/international-science-and-engineering-fair/winners.html http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/education/competition...
- madmax108 13y agoIncase anyone is interested in the actual research, rather than just the media hype about this, check out: http://ce.sysu.edu.cn/UploadFiles/electrochemistry/2012/3/201238.pdf http://ce.sysu.edu.cn/UploadFiles/electrochemistry/2012/3/20... . It's a Chinese paper which talks about Hydrogenated TIO2-PANI as superconductors (Which is what this kid based her presentation off.