Royal Institution Christmas Lectures Season 2016 Episode 3 - Supercharged - Fuelling the Future: Fully Charged

Airdate: 2016-Dec-28

Episode summary:

Celebrating 80 years since the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures were first televised, chemist Professor Saiful Islam explores one of humankind's biggest challenges - how to generate and store energy, with guest appearances from Christmas Lecturers past. In the final lecture, Saiful explores one of the most important issues facing the modern world - how to store energy. 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!

About Royal Institution Christmas Lectures series:

Each year a renowned name in the world of education leads a series of televised lectures all around one topic.