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You mean like... "the thing that looks like an oven" ? :D

She is very charismatic as well.

The questions were not good. They were great! We want to see more content like this!

Yes, we learned the positives and negatives of each battery shape.... Sorry.

Alan Reid GOOD QUESTIONS YET NO BASICS REGARDING THESE POUCH BATTERIES, ENERGY DENSITY, WEIGHT DENSITY ETC

informative ??? really ?? this is the Shell-BP- fossil fuel disaster all over again. here is some info they wont give you: they pump water into the ground to extract the lithium. on average, 1 gram of lithium in 1 liter of water. One electric car battery needs 15 kilo of lithium. So one EV battery uses 15 million liters of water, and that is just for the lithium. Big mining companies bribe, bully and bulldozer their way in, and our planet and local populations get fucked in the ass. fully charged should do a show on this topic. Start with Portugal where this disaster is about to take place. (5th largest lithium reserve on the planet)

Oh dear! Tomorrow's World was never this good. It had too many people making the programme and the goodies were more PR pieces than investigative journalism. Can you think of one thing on Tomorrow's World that you can remember now? Blue Peter was far more memorable, even EastEnders but not Tomorrow's World. I think FC is done with true passion, the presenters are not mere hired hands.

@@pdsnpsnldlqnop3330 I wouldn't say TW was perfect by any means but at least it was a proper science show. The fact that there's nothing like it on primetime TV anymore is a travesty.

I’ll second that Martin. This show ignites the wonder of science I got from TW when I was young. I’m so happy Fully Charged exists.

@@martinwray7001 Nobody watches TV any more. It is on in the background but people don't engage with it like they used to. There was a time when everyone shared a conversation about what they saw on 'Life on Earth' the night before or even developments in 'Dallas'. I don't think we will be going back to the days of four channels, with three of them having something good to offer. The gig is up and I prefer being able to indulge in things like FC online with a decent comments thread. The TV was oft shouted at but it never heard you and 'Points of View' was somewhat filtered. TV budgets were big - there is no 'Life on Earth' grade show on RU-vid so yes it is a travesty in a way.

BBC's Click is the closest show to Tomorrow's World.

... and apparently, she's got quite the 'on-site' fan club! Did you notice how many people popped in while they were taping? And I don't mean the co-worker who just did her stuff & split... that's all in a workday. One guy, in particular, kept sticking his head in. It makes me wonder if the only way to get to the bathroom was through her workspace! :-)

Will she be a regular host?

Giles Wendes that’s because she seems passionate about what she does. Well done

It is difficult to concentrate on the topic because I am jealous of her look / style. She seems gorgeous wearing anything.

Why now? The demand for the batteries for secondary uses means there will be no stock available to run a recycling center for the next ten to twenty years. If you don't include the LEAF, car batteries last fifteen to twenty years before they show enough loss to make it even looking like them may be recycled. And at that point, there are plenty of buyers to create stationary storage systems.

You can buy a 1000 battery cells on ebay from laptops and 40% will be dead beyond recovery, even when cells broken down from car batteries are tested the is likely to be dead cells in a pack that need recycling.

@@earlpottinger671 Because I would like to think long-term. Not start worrying about the problem a second before it happens.

The recycled battery is 5 times more expensive then the new one, that means nobody really cares much about recycling, for now.

Please, do that. I don't have a clue, but I should.

I.E,. "so even Paul can get (most of) it" Just wondering aloud why there isn't an 18650 or 21700-sized cell that is square-shaped, sort of like the prismatic cell.

I think the reason is that one of the main advantages of prismatics is that they can be built with a lot of surface area giving a potential cooling advantage. If they are in a cube or a deep rectangle you would need to cool on more than one side making the pack more complicated to build and therefore more expensive. Also a cuboid is structurally less strong than a cylinder so either more packaging of the cell or pack would be needed when compared to using a cylinder to maintain structural integrity and safety. @@OwenzDaddy

@@andrewzamorski4950 That has to be it. Thanks!

If and when we get the budget to pay for that, we'll be right on it. Fingers crossed we can wangle it.

not only the production quality is outstanding, but the content as well! What a great new presenter!

@@ignasb , the content was always more or less to my fancy. the content is why I started watching, but now each episode indulges me on so many levels. oh, what the heck, gonna watch it one more time.

Yeah loved the directing and camera work. Bobby let’s get some credits and thanks to the wider team - how about an episode on the production team?

@@ianturner3351 that's a wonderful idea! Would like to see that.

Aleksander Kac all it takes is a good camera guy.... with some basic cinematic knowledge

has she done uploads on this channel before? Are they in a similar style to this one?

Made from Unicorns very simple.

@@Barskor1 Yeah, basically magic, just like magnets.

@@d1oftwins :)

or just google it ie the new Unicorn... thx 2 the yanks...

Great to see they didn't go for a token model type. Not that that would be very fullycharged.

You can tell she's very knowledgeable as well! Asking good questions and steering the conversation nicely.

She has the brains and the beauty

It's amazing how quickly jonny also felt part of the team when he first joined. Fullycharged know how to pick em

She hosted the live show last year, so not entirely new to the gang.

Thank you, we're very happy that Helen works with us too.

We hope so too. We hope she can put up with us and do more episodes. I think we might be in luck.

@@fullychargedshow AHhhhh! I feel so lucky to have seen her explaining this! This is the kind of scientific communication the world needs. Truly. These kinds of episodes (a very knowledgeable presenter + unique view into a special facility/topic/research area) are the kind of spark that turns kids into scientists (and dreamers!) I really hope she can stay. Thank you, Dr. Helen and fullycharged's team.

@@fullychargedshow quite unrelated: small typo in the description: might've missed capitalizing "W" in University of *Warwick*.

ikjadoon . Not so sure. Robert and Johnny have fine tuned their natural ability to be both knowledgeable and self deprecating . The “ well you tell me” look straight to camera. It’s a fine art, to be understood and joined. This wasn’t.

@@andyphillips7435 Well, sure, after a few hundred videos, everybody can get fine tuned. ;) I agree with your overall point and still see potential to be developed here. They're knowledgeable, absolutely (e..g, loved their supercapacitor episode a while back), but that came after many, many years of videos and owning EVs.

Too good for the bbc!

If it means loads of flashing graphics and close up shots of the presenter's eyeballs or nostrils as they're talking then I hope not!

"..but the company now is aiming to ship its 10-foot cube commercial units in 2020 for proof-of-concept field deployments....." (Won't exactly fit in a leaf?) Even in static storage it seems "cheap" is becoming a factor, rather than size, or volume. When sodium (cheap/ safe) cells are available, does liquid metal stand up?

here hoping this is just the beginning of a series of shows on batteries by Helen Czerski.

"Liquid Metal Battery" Do you want T-1000's? Because this is how you get T-1000's....

Right, their technology is more suited to large scale rather than portable applications, but I'd really like to see something like this for residential solar. They say the Liquid Metal Battery could be "cheap as dirt" and extremely durable and long lasting. They've been at it for ten years though and haven't seen any product become available or much news lately so am wondering.....

@@rogerstarkey5390 Aquion tried to sell fully recyclable, harmless, unkillable (can sit flat forever with no damage) sodium static batteries but went bust (hmm seems they got bought up and are still going, but now in China). They had quite low power density and very low energy density. The MIT liquid cell should last pretty-much forever in cycle terms. Not sure what energy density they've ended up with, and there is the issue that there is very large standby loss because it has to run at >400C. This may not matter for grid stabilistion use as you just run the grid delivery through them to keep them toasty. It's still not at all clear how the sodium, liquid metal, vanadium flow, metal-air, lithium and good-old lead-acid families are going to divvy up market share. Only lead acid, lithium and (just) vanadium flow are successful so far. It seems to be very hard to get enough manufacturing volume to compete with a new chemistry (I think low volume/high cost killed Aquion - maybe the new owners will succeed).

Please, don't lay that curse on us. Who in their right mind would want that job!