Lithium. Like camera batteries. Odd.

(Laughter)

So you see, the liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology, it's a blueprint for inventing inventors, full spectrum.

Some sort of microelectro technology.

In fact, I looked to a technology that neither stores nor generates electricity, but instead consumes electricity, huge amounts of it.

You'd have to fill your entire parking space of one garage space just to give yourself four hours of battery backup.

And let me show you.

This man is Steven Sassoon.

And you can do it the same, over and over again.

And we've all heard of charge.

Battery's the power source.

So something I think is very fascinating is

Phone's dead.

That's OK, Chelsea, you need to have six cars. Energy is all about reliability.

Other transport efficiency, renewable technology, carbon capture and sequestration.

The battery is flat.

And computers don't go to sleep.

battery dead.

Oh, shit, man. Your battery's dead.

Clive wants to be an electronic engineer.

The energy density of waves varies from region to region.

We give it all the computing power it needs a 1.5 gigahertz Pentium M chip, two FireWire cameras, rate gyros, accelerometers, four force sensors on the foot, lithium polymer batteries.

You might look at Michigan and say, we're going to lead the nation in producing the guts for the electric vehicle, like the lithium ion battery.

We call this our sushi circuit. It's very popular with kids.

My battery dead.

Crap, it's burnt out.

Roaming drains the battery. All right.

And we developed techniques to dive inside and under the iceberg, such as heating pads on our kidneys with a battery that we dragged around, so that, as the blood flowed through our kidneys, it would get a little boost of warmth before going back into our bodies.

Technical

Basically, by controlling the genes, you can control multiple materials to improve your device performance.

This battery is charged.

Batteries must be running down.

Three of the four cells are gone.

You forgot the batteries?

The battery.

Technical consultant

It's the technicians that produce the desalinization plants.

They're speaking to each other and actually becoming solar engineers.

You get grassroots solutions, things that work for people who have no capital or limited access.

May I have some camera batteries, please?

Please give me batteries for a camera.

Typically, these things are put in the ground.

Took a few photos. I got my satellite phone out.

Technical Reason

So this is what you call a last mile problem.