Winner for my needs!
Of course, to make this work, the charger applies 100,000 volts rather then the usual 24 or so.
Next version will hopefully increase the number of times you can charge your Lithium Ion cell phone battery to two!
Another potential great American down the tubes.....
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It is a nice idea, but charging a battery causes the battery to heat up and the faster you charge it, the hotter it gets. Trying to charge it in 20 seconds would most likely destroy a battery. Now, I can see the application used to store energy lost while braking in a car and then being released when you want to speed up.
The problem with supercapacitors is that when they fail it is because of a catastrophic short that can result in sparks and fire.
I would like to know what her mom and dad do for a living.
I imagine the mom is a stay at home housewife and the dad runs a struggling car repair shop.
Evidently she learned everything about nanoscale manufacture of supercapacitors by Googling Wikipedia and other sites.
When the cap blows she WILL be setting the world on fire...literally.
That can’t be any good for the battery.
How does a battery handle a charge rate that exceeds its amperage and chemical capacity without destroying the battery?
Don’t you just love eager reporters with a failing basic science education? This woman invented ... a capacitor?
No explanation of how her device is innovative over existing capacitors.
Also why put the “cell phone” in the title? She just powered an LED with her “invention”!
And finally, she did not invent a device that can charge a phone!!!
Downside is your phone has a one in five chance of starting on fire.
Is there a working model of this device?
...and the litigation lawyers break out in song and dance.
It’s called “Make money by charging batteries so fast they catch on fire”.
Better dead than Crimson. GO MIT!
I find that objectionable. But I'd bet 47% of the population will see it just that way.
The device is a nano-technology based capacitor that replaces the rechargable battery in a cell phone.
Look for cell phones to start exploding soon :o)
Web search for “lithium battery fire” to see what will happen if you do this to your cell phone.
If she’s invented a new form of magic cap, that would be nice, but I wouldn’t use it to charge my phone. Maybe to replace the battery *in* my phone, but that’s another matter.
As a side exercise ... consider this - think about circumstances and events where the media has reported on something you actually know about. How poor was the reporting?
And yet people trust the media to report to them on things that they don’t know about directly with any amount of accuracy or clarity???