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But it is. A significant part of electronics engineering is dedicated to heat dissipation.

So what do we stand to gain?

At least a slight improvement in efficiency of transmission. And a huge improvement due to simpler heat dissipation needs.

So this might mean way faster battery charging - like 500 miles worth of charge in 5 mins. We’re mainly limited by how hot the batteries get during charging.



We're about halfway there already, just by cooling: 250km in under 4 min (1).

(1) https://www.tue.nl/en/news-and-events/news-overview/13-07-20...


I love that electric vehicle charging can be expressed in speeds (that is, distance divided by time). 250km/4min is 3750km/h, a touch over Mach π.


I like this. Woah, your car charges at 4000 kilometers a hour? Mine only does 3000!


This is incredibly exciting. The biggest hurdle as yet to mass adoption.




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