Speaker 0:  everything you know about batteries is officially backwards. australian scientists just built a device that actually charges faster the bigger it gets. we aren't talking about a better iphone battery. we're talking about the end of overnight charge forever. so these quantum batteries defy physics logics. research from csiro rmit, the university of melbourne, have successfully tested the full cycle quantum battery. unlike lithium ion, it uses light and quantum entanglement to hit super absorption states for near instant power. this effectively flips the scaling laws of energy. imagine a semi truck charging faster than your smartwatch. what do you think about this, john?

Speaker 1:  i love this. i've we've covered tons of different batteries. we've even we've even covered quantum batteries, but not where they've actually built,

Speaker 0:  a a a a

Speaker 1:  device, like an actual prototype. so let's just so we're all on the same, on the same field here. so a classical battery, it stores energy chemically. so lithium ion batteries, for example, they move lithium ions between electrodes during charging and discharging. now, quantum batteries work differently. they use quantum mechanical states, especially, collective quantum effects like coherence, super radiance, and super absorption to store and transfer energy. okay? so you've gotta eliminate whole classical physics when it comes to this, but this is really cool. the key principle here that they're that that that they're touting is something called collective charging. so in a normal battery, each unit charges independently. okay? in a quantum battery, many quantum systems behave collectively as one coherent object and this creates a phenomenon where energy absorption scales non linearly. so instead of charging speed increasing linearly with battery size, this is crazy, it can increase super linearly, meaning larger systems may charge disproportionately faster. so this is one of the most radical claims in the field because it appears to partially bypass traditional scaling limitations in battery physics. so what the researchers did was they built the device using organic semiconductor layers sandwiched between reflective silver mirrors forming what's called a microcavity. okay? so this microcavity, it traps light in a tiny space and forces strong interaction between photons and molecular excitations. and this setup is based on the dicke model, which is a famous quantum optics framework describing collective light matter interactions. so this just blows my mind. what are your thoughts on this, craig? i'm excited for this. do you think they've got something here, or what are your thoughts?

Speaker 0:  i think this is really cool, and i like this analogy to kind of explain why it's faster the larger, the more capacity. think of a standard battery like a stadium where every fan has to enter through a single turnstile one by one. that's your phone charging at night. the quantum battery is like a stadium where every seat is a door that opens at the exact same microsecond. the more seats you add, the more doors you have and the faster the stadium fills up. so it's kinda like, the more parking spaces you have in a large parking lot, the easier it is to find, and fill up a parking spot. right? the more crowded it gets, the harder it is to find a spot similar with cell charging. so interesting. is proof of concept was confirmed, this month, sorry, march, and we are expecting to see commercial prototypes in the next three years. so i'm really excited about this. they were targeting evs and high end laptops and energy dense quantum computers for this. so in the near future, you could pull your ev into a station and be back at a 100% in the time it takes to click your seat belt. i'm excited about this charging because you know, it's one of the reluctant things from an ev perspective. your white nickel syndrome, it takes up to an hour or maybe longer to charge depending on a trickle charger. you got a fast charger that's compatible with your unit. and, it's a little bit of a nightmare sometimes yeah. if you're in a places where you can't, it's hard to find these things. so all of a sudden, you can pull in and pull out within less than five minutes and be full ready to go just like, you know, faster than a gas station. that changes things quite a bit.

Speaker 1:  yeah. that that totally does. that changes that that would make adoption, like, it would, go like a hockey stick. so, right now, like, even though they sit they did build a prototype, it's still experimental. it only stores a tiny amount of energy and holds that charge for nanoseconds. but the thing about this is the physics behind it validates decades of theoretical work in quantum mechanics and energy storage. so they believe that this could lead to wireless charging systems and, like you said, ultra fast e b. the other thing is we did cover previous quantum battery experiments, but those mostly demonstrated charging effects theoretically or partially experimental. and so what this new work has demonstrated is they've demonstrated charging, they've demonstrated storing, and extracting electrical energy. and that last step is critical because without any energy extraction, it's not functioning as a battery. so this moves a field from abstract physics into early engineering, and that's what gets me excited.

Speaker 0:  so while most quantum tech requires dilution refrigerators to stay near absolute zero, this battery operates at room temperature thanks to its organic dye filled microcavity. you mentioned the microcavity. the global quantum battery market was nonexistent five years ago, but it's already valued at 17,210,000,000, you know, this year, 2026. and the laser used to charge this, the femtosecond laser, pulses so fast that if one second was the age of the entire universe, a femtosecond would be just a fraction of a day. yeah. so, you know, these things are crazy. we just moved the instant charge from science fiction to lab proven reality. if you're you could charge your car in ten seconds, would you finally ditch your gas guzzler, or did you still have range anxiety even with quantumtech? let us know what you think in the chat. we'd love to hear from you.