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Google Challenge Results In Astoundingly Efficient Inverters
AmiMoJo writes: A few summers ago, Google and IEEE announced a one million dollar prize to build the most efficient and compact DC to AC inverter. It was called the Little Box Challenge, with the goal of a 2kW inverter with a power density greater than 50 Watts per cubic inch. Typical solar inverters have a density of about 5 W/cubic inch. Now the results are in, with the winners hitting 143 W/cubic inch using GaN transistors, and two other teams meeting Google's goal.
Is that you Thomas Edison?
Stop electrocuting elephants!
I think he forgot the /sarc at the end of his post.
You are assuming GP male. This kind of sexist assumption is exactly the type of thing that needs to be stamped out in the industry.
Now if you need me, I'll be in my safe space. /sarc
There's probably a joke to be made at your expense, here.
We may have just hit peak Google. Three stories in a row.
You are welcome on my lawn.
They want to put it in your mobile phone! Have a solar panel on the one side, your house fuse box on the other, and your phone in the middle! That's why they wanted the highest energy density per volume!
Religion is what happens when nature strikes and groupthink goes wrong.
And in English no less, the third most commonly spoken first language in the world. Could we please get these summaries in Mandarin and Spanish? If we're going to base things in the US on what more people are doing elsewhere, why stop at measurements?
Inheritance is the sincerest form of nepotism.
>> Yea. Inches are kind of THE STANDARD for doing PCB layout worldwide.
Not any more.
Today, 80-90% of components are SMD, and SMD is metric.
The odd 2,54 component is just destroying the harmony of the grid, but that's OK, the modern CAD packages handle this well.
Yeah, sometimes I use 2,00mm headers instead of 2,54mm -> more compact, but a bit more exotic.
Farewell, imperial.....
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