Comment on New breakthrough may let us charge smartphones in 60 seconds
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 4 weeks agoThe bigger issue I would see is the heat created from dumping all that energy in at once. And can a US outlet even provide that much power?
Thevenin@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
Solid point. A laptop battery is around 60Wh, and charging that in 1 minute would pull 3.6kW from the outlet, or roughly double what a US residential outlet can deliver.
Supercaps stay pretty cool under high current charging/discharging, but your laptop would have to be the size of a mini fridge.
The research paper itself was only talking about using the tech for wearable electronics, which tend to be tiny. The article probably made the cars-and-phones connection for SEO. Good tech, bad journalism.