Posted on 02/23/2013 12:51:19 PM PST by Para-Ord.45
I’m still looking up the ED of ANFO and smokeless powder.
Hmmmm, I’m thinking of a 3 or 4 stage coil gun, compressed air to get the copper slug moving and I’m thinking a 200 grain slug moving at say 3,000 ft/second. No powder, no bang very little noise. Just the crack of the bullet.
Now if you could spin the bullet prior to launch so the bullet is gyroscopicly stable then you would really have something.
Who said anything about doubting it would succeed? I was just pointing out (as requested) the Achilles Heel of capacitors.
It’s not insurmountable or we’d not have but a tenth of the electronic tech we have today. But it’s the big problem with capacitors.
One of the problems of using super capacitors for energy storage is that they have much higher self discharge rates than batteries. I can see applications using super capacitors and batteries together in order to take advantage of the best features of each.
One of the problems of using super capacitors for energy storage is that they have much higher self discharge rates than batteries. I can see applications using super capacitors and batteries together in order to take advantage of the best features of each.
LOL!! Boy, the stories I can tell you about accidentally shorting and blowing up capacitors while working on amplifiers and other equipment. A decent sized capacitor sounds like a gun going off when it pops.
On a more serious note, Capacitors are not meant for storing electricity on a long term basis. Yes, they charge quickly at high voltages but you're not going to run a car on a "charged capacitor."
This isn't "back to the future" and there's no such thing as a flux capacitor. Yet another "breakthrough battery scam" IMO.
I know. But if this thing does have promise, maybe they could develop a super absorbent sink or barrier to go along with it. Just in case.
Our activities were more about intended discharge, to illuminate photographic chemical reactions and record the event.
Many screwdrivers met their maker....
Smokeless powder =~ 4 compared to gasoline at ~45.
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LOL! Mine however were not, and it didn't take but one or two instances of blowing a cap to correct what I was doing wrong.
When an old capacitor blows out in an amplifier, it's quite a mess to clean up. You learn to short the coil to the chassis and discharge the cap before reaching in and ............... BANG! happens.
After seeing several melt, it sometimes helps to go have one to drink.
And look what electricity did to that poor elephant.
LOL at toy computers. My first looked like a sewing machine carrier.
I remember the building days as well.
Now I couldn’t tell you anything about the new ones.
THAT’s why I stay out of CRT cases....;-)
What are the odds?
Makes sense.
The graphene capacitor linked to standard type batteries which constantly draw a current.
But like the Freepers state, problems in cold/hot temps, driving around in your electric car with a cap/bomb under your butt.
I wouldn`t want to be the first to own one. Look at the suckers who bought a Fisker :-)
One wouls have to review energy density (mass and volume) along with cost of ownership.
One would have to review energy density (mass and volume) along with cost of ownership.
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