Search for the Super Battery
2017 · 53 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 157 VOTES · DIR. Daniel McCabe
Overview
We live in an age when technological innovation seems to be limitlessly soaring. But for all the satisfying speed with which our gadgets have improved, many of them share a frustrating weakness: the batteries. Though they have improved in last century, batteries remain finicky, bulky, expensive, toxic, and maddeningly short-lived. The quest is on for a "super battery," and the stakes in this hunt are much higher than the phone in your pocket. With climate change looming, electric cars and renewable energy sources like wind and solar power could hold keys to a greener future...if we can engineer the perfect battery. Join host David Pogue as he explores the hidden world of energy storage, from the power-and danger-of the lithium-ion batteries we use today, to the bold innovations that could one day charge our world.
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00:00:01 REPORTER: Developing news...
00:02:37 It won't be easy,
00:05:30 where one material gives up electrons to another,
00:08:13 is that you might be able to run that device
00:10:22 There's no pollution.
00:12:27 MAN: The hoverboard is on fire.
00:14:45 Oh, it's silver.
00:16:52 to keep the electrodes apart, because if they touch...
00:19:01 Recharging the battery sent them back.
00:21:15 into a special low-humidity dry room.
00:23:19 of all new car sales.
00:25:22 So we've got about 8,000 individual cells in there.
00:27:41 where they'll slowly smash the middle of a battery
00:30:30 The center cell fails,
00:32:51 This is like a Houdini thing.
00:35:08 Come on!
00:37:16 "energy in must equal energy out at every moment in time."
00:39:51 the electric company lets the water flow
00:42:17 but mostly to store energy only for seconds or minutes.
00:44:34 the periodic table.
00:46:34 to create something that was going to be functional.
00:48:32 There you go.
00:50:47 Instead of a closed system,
00:53:01 And so will the ongoing search for the super battery.
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