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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.
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Supercharged Supercapacitors
S44 E3 - 3m 35s
A new way of making supercapacitors may help them store more energy than normal batteries.
Our Energy Future, in Toasters
S44 E3 - 1m 53s
Every country wants to consume as much energy as the US. Where will that energy come from?
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