Bill Mustain: Batteries, Emissions, and the Solution to Your Phone Battery Troubles
Innovation on Main
English - July 22, 2019 19:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsScience Technology engineering computing innovation higher education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Host Abe Danaher is joined by UofSC chemical engineering Professor Bill Mustain to talk about the future of batteries. First, they discuss the effect changes to the lithium ion battery will have on electric cars (2:17) and the growing problem of emissions (7:00) before moving onto alkaline batteries and their impact on soldiers (16:11). Next, Abe opens the mailbag (21:13) and asks Bill three questions about his time at the University of South Carolina and his research. Then, the episode ends with Bill's advice to everyone on saving their own phones' batteries (27:50).
The music for this episode was graciously provided by Columbia's own, "No Way Jose!"