Graphene is not a discovery of a new material, just a discovery of how we use that material (graphite) in a different way. Just brilliant.

I am sorry but I like when the battery goes dead in my cell phone at times.

Forget cellphones! I want a battery pack with these on a Tesla Model S!

I got a charge out of that.

#3 You haven't taken into account that graphene super capacitors are much lighter than their lead battery equivalents.

wait so Im confused: the short opening and end credits make me feel like this was more about the film than the discovery. So is this real or what?

Let's pray his dreams become reality!

Samsung, Apple, HTC, Huwai: on your marks and go! Want it now!

#3 you dont get the vision behind the clip, do you?

I'd like to leap 10 years ahead pls.

Why aren't we funding this?!!?!

#12. You don't perceive the problems with this idea do you? Running a tiny light bulb for 5 minutes is vastly different to propelling a car and passengers for hundreds of miles.

He's a scientist and has a mullet. Therefore, I fully trust him.

#3 I hope the stupidity hurts...

#17. You really shouldn't berate yourself.

First I'd like to say that I like this "discovery" very much. This paired with the "rise" of the Thorium based nuclear energy may, in fact, lead us to a new age where energy and fuels are far less of a concern... AND/OR where technology will make yet another amazing leap forward. At least that is what I'd like to imagine.

#3 #15 Current battery technology is far "larger" (depends on the use-case of course) and heavier in comparison. Which means that if it's possible (and it is) to build an electric car, such as Tesla Model S (or the all-road version), with current battery technology within reasonable weight limits, it will be considerably lighter and "smaller" should this technology be used instead. Unless, of course, they decide to change the technology whilst keeping the same size of the battery, which they might want to do to increase the driving range or some other aspect of car's performance.

Your reaction in #15 indicates that you are under the impression that they will take that same small (? 20x30x2mm ?) piece of graphene (used to power up a LED light for ~5 minutes after ~2 seconds of charging) and attempt to power up a car with it. If that's the case, then be at ease. They are first going to devise some folding arrangement, layering system, possibly even introduce some separative layers and maybe even improved container before it comes to that. Not to mention the charging for the battery of that purpose is going to take more than ~2 seconds... However, in case you were aware of all this, then I cannot phantom why you'd use comparison of these two use-cases to illustrate your point there.

#17 & #18 That was unnecessary...

Any step forward in electronics can make a huge difference eg like the LDR resistors (light dependent resistors , smart phones have them and thats how your phone dims when you put your phone up against your ear.
Capacitors discharge energy really quickly ,but if combined with resistors and inductors you really can make magic happen

#4. To the uneducated Science IS magic