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To: DBrow

And how would that work out for a charge time of 5-10 minutes? Considering that is roughly the average amount of time it takes to fill up your gas tank at the gas station.


62 posted on 09/02/2010 8:18:17 PM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: gogogodzilla

I scaled it to one second for that reason. For a 5 minute charge, divide by 300, for a mere 720,000 Watts.

So if you ran a “charging station” at that rate, every time a supercap car shows up, each charging station would pull 720 KW for 5 minutes.

If you regulated charge rate to 10 minutes, then each station would need only 360,000 W, about 100 electric stoves.

The amount of electricity in all three cases is still 60 KWH. I’m excluding losses and inefficiencies for clarity and laziness.

Looking at these numbers it becomes clear why those long-ago engineers chose a flammable liquid for portable energy storage.


64 posted on 09/03/2010 6:53:00 AM PDT by DBrow
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