Initially Scientist Ric Kaner set-out to discover a new to to harvest graphene, the thinnest and strongest material on Earth. What he instead found was a new way to power our lives. The below documentary from director Brian Davis captures Ric and his team as they make their break-through discovery. The science is fascinating and the realities made possible by the discovery are monumental.
The film is short, however. The Super Supercapacitor is a finalist in Focus Foward Film's Filmmaker Competition. The film is vying for the $100,000 Grand Prize, to be announced in January at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. All the films in the competition where to have a run-time of 3 minutes or less.
