The Royal Institution
Saiful Islam drops a nail through a lithium battery, and explains what it is that causes mobile phones to explode in the third of the 2016 CHRISTMAS LECTURES.
Saiful Islam presents his final Lecture from his 2016 series, ‘Supercharged: Fuelling the future’.
In this year’s final Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES, chemist Saiful Islam explores of one of the most important issues facing the modern world – how to store energy. Over the course of the lecture, he tackles his toughest challenge yet: trying to work out how to store enough energy to power a mobile phone for a whole year and still fit it in his pocket! With the UK generating nearly twenty times as much energy today as it did 80 years ago, finding better ways to store it is vital for all of our futures.
This year celebrates the 80th anniversary of the BBC first broadcasting them on TV. To help mark this occasion, Saiful is joined by former Christmas Lecturers on stage, and repeats and re-imagines some of the most famous experiments and demonstrations.
Live experiments include an attempt to break the world-record for the most powerful battery made of lemons and a clear-eyed look at the most energy-packed fuel in the world – hydrogen. Along the way he’ll investigate the chemistry of batteries and tell us what the future of energy has in store for us.
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Great.
And this is why I'm subbed to a great channel.
18650 batteries are incredibly safe if charged and used within specs.
Also there are dendrites forming which can result in a short.
The important stuff is happening between the sheets, kids!
If there was an explosion, I think I missed it.
I like the soundtrack in the end, is there a longer version of the track? ☺️
Good valuable teaching for the succession as for myself 🙂
More chemistry! ❤️❤️ more learning!
I saw that Xmas Lecture in real life 🙂
Thank you, peace and love, Doug.
That crowd is like a crowd of zombies.
Thanks to Samsung, worldwide security finally got aware of lithium batteries, and they are getting paranoid on terrorists using them as bombs on planes…
And thanks to that last phrase now I'm in FBI watch list…
That is not an explosion by any definition.
Lithium battery bomb coming to a Steven Seagal movie soon…
Intelligent man but terrible public speaker.
Whats special about oxidized cobalt that its used? Would this same science be applicable to any other oxidized transition metal?
Who's in charge of the captions?
oh, it's christman agian, time flies
Someone invented a new method of execution.
The full Royal Institution Christmas lecture (called People power) for 12-14 yr olds is on the Ri Channel (together with the other two lectures): http://bit.ly/2pprMeO