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this is much closer to a capacitor than a battery
Phthalo Blue. Just add some Titanium White for the full Bob Ross experience.
Short answer: "Far away!" long answer: î
A quick note - as my father worked for CSIRO before retiring a couple of years ago. They pronounce the organization name "sigh-row" or will spell the name out. Australian org names are always tripping up science communicators.
"i invented a new type of battery" "new or capacitor again?" "..."
Imagine bob ross saying " we're going to add a the least touch of phathlo blue to our dye laser battery...there...easiest way i have found to make a beautiful battery.
"One decade to prove the charge mechanism works, and then just a few more years to build a whole actual battery".... That sounds DECEPTIVELY similar to the "Only 20 years until commercial fusion energy is commonplace"
Dang, another tech we wont ever see
And a quantum leap a change in energy state is the smallest leap that can be measured. A Quantum Leap in Energy Physics is the opposite of what you think.
Sounds like a great design for a solar cell. Let the sun to excite it and let it discharge immediately.
this reminds me of the recent Veritasium video explaining the counterintuitive scaling inversion of many biological systems: larger -> more efficient
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I'm sure nobody would mind a high power laser firing at their car as they drive down the highway!
What happened to graphene?
1:29 C.S.I.R.O. we say. (Initialisation not acronym)
So they built a capacitor?
The fascinating thing about science is that it often creates more questions than answers
First use case might be for powering Space probes with a Laser parked in L5 and powering "SOLAR PANELS" to power very powerful ION propulsion units
People when a brand new technology prototype proof of concept doesn't immediately beat the industry standard:
Love this channel, promoting tech we'll never see irl