How sugar, 3D batteries and other breakthroughs can power our future, UCLA

[jhamien920]

Wow! this is a great technology. I'll gladly wait for this someday.

[CognitiveNetwork]

But can you eat it?

[arztdeinesvetrauens]

0:30 whats she doing there?

that doesnt look lik a kitchen!

[JazzySpook]

@arztdeinesvetrauens

Aw man that was just too funny, good one ahah

[erentheca]

Inspiring :d

[TirianB]

Where do you get sugar for free? I usually have to pay for it.

[hamlintyler]

so sick..

[colanarky12]

sugar is credit to team!!!

[EmperorOfMars]

3D batteries are better than our 2D batteries

[kimmer6]

Doc, this sugar power ain't nuthin new. About 35 years ago at Cal Poly SLO

I discovered if I took a bottle of cheap tequila and drank most of it, my organs would break the alcohol into sugar. This gave me the power to run naked across the football field during a game, surf a pickup truck hood while peeing, climb trees in a gorilla suit and jump down in front of unsuspecting women, get aroused by farm animals, then go do it all over again Saturday night.

P.S. I was the "Blue Hood" at UCLA '73

[silver91183]

@kimmer6 i like were your heads at......

[overunitydotcom]

Make it open source please !

The university is paid by the taxpayer, so please publish this sugar fuel cell widely.

Come to my overunityDOTcom forum and pusblish it there please.

Many thanks.

Regards, Stefan.

[tomek123kotek]

yes... but... IS IT REUSABLE AND FOR HOW MUCH?

[FlashFireSix]

Sugar is a breakthrough?

[falcon731boy]

afterall, it comes down to efficiency, sugar does have high yield to land consumption ratio, but the added step (to convert sugar to energy) decrease that net efficiency and could solar possibly have higher net yield? now, connection is: no sun, then no plants, and solar tech is similar in this way... (that's why I used solar as an example)

[PokeWizKev826]

dam, i past by the engineering building all the time everyday.. i didn't know that kind of genius was going on in there hahaha.

[crustyapplelips]

GO BRUINS!

[cepincanin]

nice, but what if ants come.....heheheh

then all sugar beet and cane will be used for fuel not for food and that is a problem

[ubuntuFish]

also forgot to mention... it said it uses "enzymes", and that it could "use the sugar levels in your blood" to power a pacemaker. so you have infinite sugar, but what about enzymes? do they deplete? sounds like an interesting technology, just curious for more info. one more thing, what does it mean by "3d" battery?

[zombierobopirate]

@ubuntuFish the 3rd D in 3D means time. the batteries last for all time

[ubuntuFish]

quick question, can these batteries be recharged? also, what remains behind after the battery has expired? sugar and enzymes may be nice and "clean", but if when your done with it all thats left is toxic slag, were no farther ahead environmentally.

[cristIAN3604]

Go brains!!!

[MaschioAlfonso]

soooooooooo geek xD excelent

[hieuluu]

do we have to deal with bacteria since sugar is an organic compound?

[eddy55555]

Go bruins!!!