Super Capacitor as a Battery

[Mustank]

Teen comes up with Super Capacitor as a Cellphone Battery

If we build a Super Capacitor the size of a m16 magazine, viola!!! the days of stars wars is at hand

hey!!! if we can build a Super Capacitor the size of one building, we can even absorb and store electricity from lighting

whoa!!! maybe even got lighting defence towers!!! machiam game like that!!!

if these are truely real, i think middle east oil people

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/20/tech/whiz-kid/index.html

 

(CNN) -- A tiny device that can recharge cell phone batteries in as little as 30 seconds won 18-year-old Eesha Khare a major science award that will help fund her college education at Harvard University.

 

Khare traveled from her California home to Phoenix last week for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, where her invention was honored as one of two winners of Young Scientist Awards.

 

"I'm in a daze. I can't believe this happened," Khare, a senior at Lynbrook High School in Saratoga, told CNN affiliate KPIX 5.

 

Khare's device, a black, rectangular type of supercapacitor just over an inch long, can charge a cell phone battery in 20 to 30 seconds, she said.

 

"I developed a new supercapacitor, which is basically an energy storage device which can hold a lot of energy in a small amount of volume," she told KPIX 5. The technology may also be able to speed up charging of automobile batteries, she said.

 

A videotape of the award ceremony showed an ecstatic Khare trotting up to the stage when her name was announced in Phoenix, then standing with other winners as the audience at the fair applauded and confetti fell on them.

 

The award includes a $50,000 prize that will come in handy when Khare heads to Harvard in the fall, she told KPIX 5. With a laugh, she predicted that "I will be setting the world on fire."

 

In announcing the winners of what it billed as the "world's largest high school research competition," Intel cited Khare for recognizing "the crucial need for energy-efficient storage devices" as the world rapidly adopts portable electronics.

 

The other winner of a Young Scientist Award with Khare was Henry Lin of Shreveport, Louisiana, who received a $50,000 prize for "simulating thousands of clusters of galaxies" to allow scientists to "better understand the mysteries of astrophysics: dark matter, dark energy and the balance of heating and cooling in the universe's most massive objects," the Intel statement said.

 

The top prize at the fair went to 19-year-old Ionut Budisteanu of Romania, who used "artificial intelligence to create a viable model for a low-cost, self-driving car," according to an Intel statement. He received the Gordon E. Moore Award, named after the Intel co-founder, which includes a $75,000 prize.

 

According to Intel, more than 1,500 young scientists from around the world were chosen to compete in last week's fair.

[Mustank]

SG Govt should really import this kind of talent!!!

bring inside Defence Science

with the extreme high lighting hit rate in SG, we could one day be a key exporter of energy to the world!!! hoo hoo!!! huat ah!!!!

[Sagara]

SG Govt should really import this kind of talent!!!

bring inside Defence Science

with the extreme high lighting hit rate in SG, we could one day be a key exporter of energy to the world!!! hoo hoo!!! huat ah!!!!

 

Sorry but they perfer to import TRASH...

[Icedbs]

Funny thing is every news are highlighting the girl, Khare on her supercapacitor. Even the primetime news showed her.

 

But little is mention on the 1st prize winner. The news also didn't show him. Infact, I thought Khare won the first prize until I saw this thread.

 

 

[Gendut]

Singapore will never produce such prodigious talent even if we identified them early, import and nurture them in Singapore.

 

The Singapore system itself will dismember the innate talent within them.

 

This the scholars and Ministers will never fathom because they look at themselves and say "Look at us. We made it"

 

[Kb27]

Sorry but they perfer to import TRASH...

 

Good stuff won't want to come here, only trashy stuffs.

[Angdevils]

only when trash keep coming then we can stand out. right?

[Kangadrool]

Can install in cars also. Chery QQ becomes Lamborgini.

[5936]

billionaire in the making.

[Kb27]

only when trash keep coming then we can stand out. right?

 

If we keep comparing ourselves with trash, we'll get nowhere.