You have interests from the Right (big oil) and the Left ("traditional" alternative energy incl. wind, solar, yada, yada) that will keep such technology from seeing the light of day.
Count me a pessimist.
You need help. It appears your DING got caught in your BAT!!
If it becomes a viable, profitable, competitive commercial enterprise, it will be brought to market. That's the nature of an entrepreneurial and capitalism. Lantern/light bulb, tubes/transistors, buggies/cars, balloons/jets. Those kinds of things.
you are right...unless the right pockets in DC are filled - it will die a quick death....
think back to Tucker and the Tucker Torpedo, for one....I can remember others, but it gets me irritated and I need to get to sleep
If you accidentally short a nicad, it will become pretty hot from releasing its energy over few minutes. If this capacitor holds as much energy as a nicad, and develops a catastrophic leak or is shorted, the same energy will be released in a small fraction of a second, with explosion.
"Pessimist" is not the noun I have in mind to count you as.
Yes, there is an unholy ENRON-type alliance between big oil and eco-flakes to throttle energy supplies. Less CxHx = more profits(supply/demand curve)and less energy used = less pollution. Since Charles Vest of MIT is GWB's science advisor this nanotech discovery has the good-old-boy backing it will need. And yet if it costs as much as Lithium batteries, forget it, nobody but the rich will buy it. Another smothered discovery : Deborah Chung's room temperature superconductor. It converts ambient heat to coherent DC all on its own. See cheniere.org for that particular example of what you're talking about.
Are you referring to the 75 mpg carburetor that Detroit has suppressed since 1952, or the cure for cancer that doctors are suppressing, or cold fusion that Exxon is suppressing, or .................... ?
Ok, done. you're on the list
It will not be silenced but there also is a chance it will not be implemented for a primary power source. The engineering trade journals have already (4 months ago) been touting the super caps for areas in a car that require heavy cables (windows, seats, etc). A small super cap can store enough charge to operate these devices on demand then charge at a current low enough to not require heavy conductors.
If a reasonable physical size vs capacity can be reached then, yes a very quick charging super capacitor could be a superior storage device in an automobile. They can also be recharged many times more than current battey technology.
It may seems like that but I think it's just that there are so many of these articles that are purely speculative but twisted to make it sound like an actual breaktrough has taken place. If you read the article it is filled with weasle words like may, could, has the potential to, bla bla bla. Fun to speclate but please, just let me know when the first one comes off the assembly line.