James Rogers

That is true.

That is true.

But I'm like, well, I just learned all this.

I learned all the material science stuff, so I could probably learn the fruits and vegetables.

And so I made a list, right?

Because I didn't know it would work.

I didn't know that this idea would work, but I made a list of the fruits and vegetables, and just in terms of how long they lasted.

And the shortest ones are like raspberries, blackberries, strawberries.

But what's at the bottom of the list, the longest lasting stuff is like mandarins, oranges, grapefruits.

I don't need to know a lot about fruits and vegetables to know that the ones with a peel last a lot longer than the ones without a peel.

Just put those words together.

Now we've got to figure out how to make it.

I actually didn't know what fruits and vegetables were made.

So I'm a material scientist.

So I'm kind of obsessed with what stuff is made out of.

And so the first question was, well, if you've got this strategy to allow fruit to last longer by strengthening the peel that's there, what's there now?

Yeah.

So I'd been trained for this, started to do research.

What are the skins of fruits and vegetables made out of?

And totally blew my mind because I'd been working on these solar cells.