• Question: Has anything inspired you to invent something?

    Asked by ♥Yasmin♥ to Leah-Nani, Andrew on 22 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Andrew Margetts-Kelly

      Andrew Margetts-Kelly answered on 22 Jun 2018:

      Once I was reading an article about how a specific type of battery; it later said that it was not rechargeable. And I asked the question, “why? It doesn’t make sense!”.
      So I set about understanding that statement; I worked out the “WHY” of the battery not being rechargeable. It turned out to be a very subtle thing to do with something called “enthalpy”.
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      Then I had a thought, I wondered “what if you did it a different way instead, would that make it rechargeable?”. When I built it and tested it, I found it was more than just rechargeable, it turned out to be one of the best ways to make a battery ever discovered; it was also the cheapest (20 times cheaper than current lithium batteries).
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      So I ended up inventing something just because I asked a simple question; “why?”

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