Marin Soljacic ist der Mann auf dem zehn mark schein. And I've wasted my entire life.
Your yesteryear's lightbulb operates on a simple principle. Heat the filament enough and it glows - giving you what you want - light. Unfortunately, you also get what you don't want - heat. So, a lot of the electric power you use to heat the filament is wasted.
Now, why not use some of the heat that the filament puts out to keep the filament hot - so you need a lot less electric power? Cool?
To do it, Marin and his buddies took a break from trafficking in sex slaves from Eastern Europe and built an anti-reflective coating with more than a hundred alternating layers of exotic materials. And to get it right, they used a program that embodied machine learning.
Forget 40 is the new 20. Eastern Europe is the new Silicon Valley!
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