NOVA | Making Stuff: What were looking forward to learning?
hlu0QSHAz6g • 2011-02-07
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Kind: captions Language: en [Music] I was really looking forward to the battery segment so to my mind batteries have just stopped I mean my laptop gets 3 hours just like my first laptop did 15 years ago um why can't they make Battery Technology keep up with the rest of technology and in this show we'll explore that and we we we meet literally the top three battery scientist in the world and we see what they're doing um part of the answer to that by the way is that they have been improving batteries the reason this the laptop gets only three hours today is because the laptop is doing so much more it's got Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and a bunch of power drains that it didn't used to have um but in any case there are only so many elements in the earth and they can be mixed in only so many ways but um and that's why there aren't these enormous breakthroughs in batteries but as a gadget guy that was my my particular interest and it turns out there are some really cool things coming
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