"Donkey, Ogres are like super capacitors."
Posted on 09/01/2010 1:34:35 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Not so fast.
Another needed key to wind/solar/tidal is approval to build high voltage power lines where they don't exist. Not likely soon.
"Donkey, Ogres are like super capacitors."
In the future,
Would have been nice if they’d put that in the title.
ZAP!
They should have used Joules.....
Didn’t you read the article? Diamonds are precious joules.
Very Punny
I think both of you have eaten too many scrambled ergs.
The writer and the editor must’ve left early so they wouldn’t miss happy hour.
Riverworld. Man, I’m getting flashbacks... Yeah.
“if optimized and commercialized”
That’ll probably be good enough for a billion dollar federal grant.
I wonder if that’s where Doug Adams got his idea for a towel being so important?
SCENE [Bart Simpson’s grandson returns to the present in a time machine]
grandson: “So in the future I tie an electrical onion to my belt, cause that will be in fashion, and head out to reach the ferry...” Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white electrical onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
Super capacitor’s power storage is measured in microwatt hours. Leveling the powergrid will require hundreds of megawatt hours. There is, however, some interesting research into liquid batteries where battery reactants can be pumped in and out of the cells in units measured by tons.
Pardon my pessimism, I have followed Eestor for years.
That being said, I would love to charge my phone in seconds.
That, and it’d be a way to make electric cars viable. For with a supercapacitor, the car can be ‘refueled’ in less time than it’d take to refill your gas tank.
Which would then allow for long-distance travel.
It just hit me, you could have a remote location with all LED lighting and have a truck/boat come by every month or two with your propane for cooking and electricity (via a massive super capacitor) for lighting, etc. In your yard you would have a propane tank and a big super capacitor. They’d use their “bigger” capacitor to give yours a quick charge, and away you go for months.
I wonder how many options this will give people that we have not even thought of.
Imagine, instead of a generator, your home has a large super capacitor that has a one week or one month charge in it all the time. And if your power goes out, it automatically kicks in for lighting, the refrigerator, etc.
>>“they can discharge up to 200 volts every second.”<<
At that rate, GM would run out of the darned things in just a few minutes.
>>Maybe S&W will use this technology to market a practical, hand held laser! <<
Seriously, you may be onto something. Good for air and land based vehicles as well.
Just as hard drives hold more and more data, imagine a capacitor the size of a coffee cup holding enough energy to power your homes basic electric needs for a day, a week or a month. It could also power “power hungry” weaponry such as lasers.
How about EMP? I could use a small charge focused from the back of my car whenever the flashing blues come on behind me.
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