https://www.littleboxchallenge.com/
This is a nice little challenge from Google and IEEE. They are offing $1M
to anyone that can make a tablet size large scale inverter.
Even if HacMan don’t apply for this, it seems something worth having a
discussion about.
Can it be done with today technology?
If so what other limitations do we have to deal with (heat comes to mind)?
How would this change the world and is it really worth the investment (as
we expect inverters to be that big anyway) apart from being really cool to
achieve?
I think if your going to do something that hasn’t been done before already
since this seems to be all about efficiency and I’d guess lots and lots of
other people in the field have probably already come up with the most
efficient circuits there is
then it’ll probably involve materials that are highly exotic / highly
efficient / highly dangerous / highly expensive
sounds like fun
My domain is usually digital rather than analogue, but one approach might
be the use of graphene perhaps?
store the input DC in a big ass graphene capacitator, then output it via a
printed graphene semiconductor as a random idea
http://www.graphene-battery.net/graphene.htm
http://jenslabs.com/tag/graphite-oxide/
http://www.nano-connect.org/news/news/converting-graphene-to-a-semiconductorOn Thursday, July 24, 2014 1:27:46 PM UTC+1, Harvinder Atwal wrote:
https://www.littleboxchallenge.com/
This is a nice little challenge from Google and IEEE. They are offing $1M
to anyone that can make a tablet size large scale inverter.
Even if HacMan don’t apply for this, it seems something worth having a
discussion about.
Can it be done with today technology?
If so what other limitations do we have to deal with (heat comes to mind)?
How would this change the world and is it really worth the investment (as
we expect inverters to be that big anyway) apart from being really cool to
achieve?