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Google Challenge Results In Astoundingly Efficient Inverters

Posted by timothy on from the now-multiply-by-a-few-million dept.

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.

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  1. Who participated? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Did Google adequately encourage women and minorities to enter the challenge? We need to ensure that opportunities like this are accessible to women and minorities to encourage their participation in STEM fields.

    1. Re:Who participated? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      We need to ensure that opportunities like this are accessible to women and minorities to encourage their participation in STEM fields.

      No. We don't. Women and minorities need to study the same shit everyone else does and participate under the same opportunities / challenges everyone else does.

      Now take your angsty SJW baggage and get the hell off my lawn.

    2. Re:Who participated? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Did Google adequately encourage women and minorities to enter the challenge? We need to ensure that opportunities like this are accessible to women and minorities to encourage their participation in STEM fields.

      Glad to say the token nigger provided an "inverter" which was a box that could be turned upside down. Glad to say that he was happy with the consolation prize, which was a bunch of bananas

      And the Indian and Chinese teams were duly informed that they did not count as minorities, because they are generally competent and law abiding. The Indian team was particularly disappointed because they thought the "banana" prize was even more work.

    3. Re: Who participated? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Spoken like a true white male middle class virgin...

    4. Re: Who participated? by Coeurderoy · · Score: 1, Troll

      Thanks to all the AC for clarifying why Trump might become you president....

      As a side note: positively discrimination on a goal oriented challenge would be beside the point, after all you want the maximum of "what ever" from the winner...
      But not going through a phase of positive discrimination has two drawbacks, you get less talented people from the discriminated group, and you give the illusion to a whole bunch of idiots in the advantaged group that they are actually worth something in their chosen activity, instead of letting them either try harder, or change business.
      So as defined in the Hacker's Dictionary Loose Loose !