The new quantum battery is a complete game changer.
James Quach, the newest Ramsay Fellow at the University of Adelaide, has announced his ambitious and potentially revolutionary plans to create a quantum battery.
Quach’s announcement has generated considerable excitement in science and tech circles for one special reason – if his technology works it could allow for instantaneous charging.
Entanglement Of Particles Allows For Instantaneous Charging
The idea of a quantum battery was first floated in a research paper back in 2013, and now Quach believes he has the necessary tools to take the theory into the laboratory. He explains that quantum batteries will work completely differently from conventional batteries in one unusual sense – the more that there are, the faster they will charge.
“If one quantum battery takes one hour to charge, then two would take 30 minutes, three would take 20 minutes, and so on. If you had 10 thousand batteries, they would all charge in less than a second.”
So how does this work?
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The university’s newest Ramsay Fellow, Dr. James Quach
Well, it all comes down to the fascinating and still little-understood concept of quantum entanglement. “Quantum mechanics deals with interactions at the very smallest of scales, at the levels of atoms and molecules – at this level, you get very special properties that violate the conventional laws of physics, ” Dr. Quach explained, “One of those properties is ‘entanglement’. When two objects are entangled it means that their individual properties are always shared – they somehow lose their sense of individuality.” According to Dr. Quach, this entanglement of particles could theoretically allow for instantaneous charging across a huge number of batteries.
The promise of this work is astronomical. Once it is properly developed, the quantum battery could feasibly make conventional batteries in small electronic devices completely obsolete. Yet more ambitiously, Dr. Quach hopes that once the technology is perfected that his idea could provide huge opportunities for the burgeoning renewable energy sector.
“The long-term aim is to scale up, to build bigger batteries which will support renewable energy technologies by making it possible for continuous energy supply no matter the weather conditions – rain, hail or shine, ” he said.
Sources:
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