Posted on 02/13/2006 1:27:18 PM PST by Neville72
Too late. Will never work as well as the flux capacitor.
Fascinating...
Who writes this crap?
'bout time. My Ipod's battery is dying.
I was invited to work on research on these at the University of FLorida and I declined. I don't think I've ever made a bigger mistake.
How many jigawatts can they squeeze outta these things?
Where do I buy stiock?
Where do I buy stock?
Bah! You punk kids and your IPods - in my day a Leyden jar was good enough for us, consarn it! Next thing you'll demand is a little bitty telephone you carry around in your pockets...
Since you must know quite a bit about these if you will help us out and expound on the ramifications of this technology.
Thanks
A lot of existing companies can't even get electrolytics right... think of all the stuff you could screw up with one bad batch of these things...
These tubes expand and contract in the presence of a voltage, and were going to replace LCD's and display LEDs.The amount of charge that can be held by a capacitor is generally eA/D, where e is the dielectric constant (vacuum at the molecular level), A is the Area, and D is the distance. At the molecular level, the carbon surface area is much higher, allowing it to store more energy. If they can get these small enough, they can replace large parallel-plate style capacitors, further shrinking power electronics. If they can make them sufficiently small, the RAM in your computer could be replaced with these. They just have to ramp the technology, really. Producing these things on a large scale costs BILLIONS in retooling.
My own experience with carbon is as interconnects in microprocessors, but that's still a ways off.
We are all allowed one major f**k up in life, this seems to have been yours. OTH, maybe it won't work out and you will stand vindicated. I can remember my one major screw up:)or maybe it was 3 or 4, I can't really recall how many!
You had Leyden jars? You lucky sucker. We had to make do by petting the cat's fur backwards. If we were really lucky, we could sneak into the local hotel and scuff our feet around on the carpet.
Well, yeah, I remember tin cans with a string running between them, so there! What's with all these electronic gadgets anyway, you would think technology was the backbone of today's economies!:)/Little sar here:)
What a crappy article. Not very well-written at all, and I still don't understand (in a skim or the lede, which is what a good journalist knows readers will often to) how this will replace batteries, how long they will last, etc.
Wimps. Every time I want to make toast for breakfast, I have to go outside in a thunderstorm and fly a kite.
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