I ran across this earlier this week, but forgot to post about it. A team at UCLA has come up with an absurdly simple way to fabricate a super supercapacitor, basically a graphene sheet a single atom (molecule?) thick. Video at the link:
http://www.kcet.org/news/rewire/science ... arbon.html
And now there's an update, possibly a way to make them on a mass production scale:
http://www.kcet.org/news/rewire/science ... itors.html
Charge your smart phone in seconds, charge an electric car in a minute. Wow. I want my flying car! Found via Reddit.
Super Supercapacitor
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Darrell
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Super Supercapacitor
Eppur si muove--Galileo
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George guy
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Re: Super Supercapacitor
The hell with that, I want a laser gun.Darrell wrote: Charge your smart phone in seconds, charge an electric car in a minute. Wow. I want my flying car!
'Regulate' used to mean the opposite of 'constipate.'
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Rich Jordan
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Re: Super Supercapacitor
PPG by 2014, Lewiston in 5 years, Delameter in 10; don't settle for anything less.George guy wrote:The hell with that, I want a laser gun.Darrell wrote: Charge your smart phone in seconds, charge an electric car in a minute. Wow. I want my flying car!