Building a better battery
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 958 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All engine running, |
| 0:03.0 | running, absolutely genius. |
| 0:04.0 | Get this. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:06.0 | This is the show where we bring science. |
| 0:08.0 | What that essentially means is discovery is |
| 0:10.0 | advances, research, technology, unbelievable. |
| 0:13.4 | Without further ado, this is the Naked Scientists. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello, welcome to the Naked Scientists, |
| 0:18.5 | the program that brings you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology, |
| 0:21.9 | and medicine. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm Chris Smith. |
| 0:23.8 | And this week we're looking at the subject of batteries. |
| 0:26.5 | With the global power supply shifting towards renewables, |
| 0:29.4 | the battery is fast becoming one of the most vital forms of power storage. |
| 0:33.0 | So how do we get here? |
| 0:35.0 | How do batteries still need to improve? |
| 0:37.0 | And could we all be flying in battery-powered airliners |
| 0:40.0 | before too long. First though, we inevitably need to understand what exactly a battery is. |
| 0:50.0 | Now in the year 1800, First though, we inevitably need to understand what exactly a battery is. |
| 0:53.4 | Now in the year 1800, when the first battery was made, that's at least when it was documented, |
| 0:59.2 | the person we would have asked then would have been the Italian chemist Alessandro Volta and that's after |
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