Innovation Overground: Get over Thomas Edison already!
Innovation Overground
English - December 10, 2018 00:00 - 16 minutes - 22.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsScience innovation techtransfer research business science chicago Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The obvious common thread between batteries and English muffins is, of course, contact lenses. An unusually high-energy Joe unravels that mystery after whining about battery chemistry and how it basically remains unchanged from Thomas Edison's ideas more than 100 years ago. The crew discusses Innovative power storage technologies await us in the form of…supercapacitors!
Featured Technology: http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2018/february/supercapacitor.html; https://www.nasa.gov/ames-partnerships/technology/technology-opportunity-metal-oxide-vertical-graphene-hybrid-supercapacitors
Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@HJRunge)
Sponsor: UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed
Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/