Scaling up the production of graphene is the trick. Do that and all sorts of good things will happen.
I saw a story where Won Hung Lo was also working on graphine capacitors with great success.
To dump that much electricity into the capacitor in that short of time I’m thinking you need a pretty robust source and wire.
Ping.
Looks good to me. Great location for the discovery, too (low cost Republic of Korea). Hopefully, Musk has his eye on it, too.
These are just dry wet dreams of people who are simply infatuated with change for the sake of change like the Transformer In Chief in the White hut!!!
These hopeless attempts at duplicating what America did for the world with the mass produced automobile, diesel locomotive and airplane utilizing petro fuels is just preposterous, again IMO!!!/rant
In other words... I ain't buyin it!!!
There's also the problem that we don't generate enough surplus electricity to power a wide-spread adoption of battery-powered cars. And then, thanks to this administration's war on electricity through its forced closings of coal fired generators, were unlikely make that adoption anytime soon.
When a vehicle or motor can drive 100 miles and engage a recharging system using the energy
to recharge a drained system in minutes, then recharging stations will be gone, oil, gone.
Battery pack (1) = 100 miles on a charge
Battery pack (2) = recharge in 15 minutes
(1) drains and switches to (2), then recharges (1)
This could also be used for nonstop flights around the world.
Hmm, come to think of it, this guy is going to die and all this will just go away.
I remember when our country was full of innovation.
The laws of Physics haven't changed. Getting that much energy into your car in four minutes will require massive conductors, high voltage and high amperage circuits.
That's not something you'll find in your average house.
Working with that kind of voltage can be instantly fatal to careless individuals...
It is likely that a refined version of the supercapacitor will exceed lithium-ion batteries’ storage capacities in due course.
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It’s more likely that this is the last we’ll ever hear of it.
Test Engineer, Whee Goh Boom was quoted as saying “This is the best thing since Chernobyl”
Visualizing a VW Beetle with a solar panel on the roof.
Thanks, @2ndDivisionVet.
@Jim Robinson — think this stuff might prove handy for recharging between ZOTs? ;-)
I’m a big fan of miracle substances. Always have been. In ancient days there was the Philosopher’s Stone which could turn lead into gold, confer immortality, etc.
In modern days there’s graphene, which can cure halitosis and alopecia, as well as make the latest generation of miracle batteries via miracle capacitors.
It’s just a matter of moving from the lab to production after working out the kinks in the “manufacturing processes”. And if it doesn’t work out to well, then the guy who scammed, uh, I mean utilized all of the money from the suckers, uh, I mean the investors, can always resign “to spend more time with his family”.
“It is likely that a refined version of the supercapacitor will exceed lithium-ion batteries’ storage capacities in due course.”
Well, OK then. If you say so.
Seriously, now, will this mean I can recharge my Makita drill in three seconds? That'd be nice, but I remain skeptical...
That is impressive.
How long can it hold that charge compared to a battery?