Video: The battery that might change everything

http://hotair.com ^ | february 23 2013 | jazz shaw

[no-to-illegals]

What are the odds?

You are way above my pay grade asking that question. For Dumb I am.
Did have a profession once who stated ... here is the deal ... man can survive within this temperature range, and fluctuation stated as moderate range to upper range of 130 through cold range to zero and a bit lower with shelter if water, heat and energy supply of food can be attained in cold index and add cooling in heat index. The professor then said these are the energy heat indexes and chill index fluctuations of the planet on which we reside, approximately. To form civilization the moderate range of fifty degrees Fahrenheit to ninety five degrees Fahrenheit promotes the better opportunity to survive and for a civilization to flourish. Then the profession simply said ... Good Luck.

[no-to-illegals]

profession should be proffessor LOL ... may still be wrong

[Paladin2]

" Good Luck. "

Turns out we and our progeny all have " Good Luck ".

Should we all enjoy personal Liberty, so much the better...

[no-to-illegals]

imho personal Liberty is similar to R&R. Boring is better than excitement unless it is the excitement of a discovery made. Gave up calling new found things inventions a long time ago; prefer the word discovery for imho everything is awaiting discovery for there are no inventions. An invention is a discovery for it was there all the time it simply had not been discovered. A toast to future discoveries.

[Spktyr]

Think more ‘blast shield’. Again, didn’t say it can’t be engineered around, but it’s a well known problem for all capacitors.

[WildHighlander57]

No gunpowder?

What would the batfe do?

They don’t get involved with non gunpowder projectile weapons do they?

[Paladin2]

"I can see applications using super capacitors and batteries together in order to take advantage of the best features of each."

Hybrids area good idea, sometimes.

[Hot Tabasco]

And I can even remember myself saying back in the seventies, these damn toy computers (PCs) will never work in a business environment!

And I can remember my computer programming instructor back in 1974 telling us that my TI hand held calculator will be the only computer I will ever need..........

[SgtHooper]

Do they offer a free 30-day supply of enzyte from Smilin’ Bob!?

[no-to-illegals]

LOL ... don't know ... my preference is Cialis. Miracles I call those. LOL

[no-to-illegals]

To be series ... Did not see one for enzyte and I watch the whole thing. Oh boy, getting active close by again ... blue light specials.

[Ozark Tom]

I was waiting for EEstor to actually deliver a car system like on the movie “Demolition Man”, which were “not” supposed to explode. Actually, such a storage system could be reconfigured to produce a soft x-ray / ultraviolet flash, in addition to a bang. Poor mans pocket-nuke.

[Jim Robinson]

Yup. I learned programming on a Univac 1100 half word machine, including BAL, Cobol and RPG. Landed my first computer job right after graduation in Jan 73. It was on an IBM/360 card machine and my first programming task was a BAL application. Luckily for me, the Univac training was perfect preparation for the job and all went well. Later converted to IBM System/3 and RPG II, then also took on BTI (Basic Timing Sharing, Inc., based on HP mini-computer technology), then PDP 11 (RSTS and Basic Plus), followed by VAX/VMX. Was producing and distributing VAX systems when I was introduced to the Internet world by my son and fellow programmer (John) around 1994/95 timeframe. Developed (hacked together) the original FR forum software in 1996.

We were developing agricultural accounting applications in the latter seventies on BTI timesharing computers when we first encountered a thing called “micro-computer.” One of the programmers in my department purchased one and formed a competing company, but PCs came shortly after and even though we mocked them as toys at the time, they eventually put us both out of business.

Never got very interested in the TI handhelds, but several of the programmers I worked with got very involved with building their own “home computers” from kits before the PC came out. Lots of exciting developments in those days. We even had micro computer stores and clubs. Crazy fad would never catch on.

[DouglasKC]

That much capacity to absorb and hold a charge over a short period of time, also indicates that there would be the capacity to DISCHARGE that electron load just as quickly as it could be put in.

Should be fairly easy...bundle the device with a discharge circuit that will slowly eke out the desired voltage.

[factoryrat]

Have you ever dropped a lit match into a bucket filled with gasoline? Same risk of a fiery death exists with any form of energy storage. A fully charged ultracapacitor would probably be safer to operate than say piping your home with natural gas or propane. Risk aversion is killing technical innovation in this country.

[GOPJ]

That much capacity to absorb and hold a charge over a short period of time, also indicates that there would be the capacity to DISCHARGE that electron load just as quickly as it could be put in.

Maybe a future high energy weapon here? Light, easy to carry and very deadly?

[RBK]

Better yet a capacitor exploding while attatched to a transformer or series of transformers..... EMP bomb

[Eaker]

[fuente]

86, that is a good thing. As you are likely aware, there are many different materials and configurations. Large increases in power density typically means much more reactive and prone to catastrophic failure. Some experimental configurations and materials have proven extremely reactive. There have been more than a few “safety” problems and failures reported.

[KenD]

This isn't specifically to Spktyr, but to the notion of "all capacitors are explosive".
As I recall, electrolytic capacitors have a liquid within them. Rapid discharged caused that liquid to flash into vapor, thus the explosion.
This reported technology doesn't look like it would have THAT problem but could conceivably vaporize the graphene layer(s) BUT if there wasn't a constriction that attempted to contain the pressure of the vaporized material there wouldn't be much of an explosive potential.
FIRE on the other hand is still a risk.
Of course, the vapor in the top of a gasoline tank is potentially VERY explosive and we've learned to live with that risk.