Posted on 02/23/2013 12:51:19 PM PST by Para-Ord.45
Made of evil CARBON !
algore disapproves
Did you ever short a high capacity cap in the dark?
It makes a spark, doesn’t it?
Was any sulfuric acid introduced during the process. That sulfuric acid can be nasty stuff. Have not gone to take a look and is why am asking.
I did once it blowed up really good (of course the voluminous amounts of toxic vapors were not really expected...)
Who doesn't like high energy density devices?
Woo hoo!! Now we’re cooking with gas!! er, Super ^carbon^ Capacitors!!
Short out a charged capacitor and you get a nice explosion. The larger the cap, the bigger the explosion.
That much capacity to absorb and hold a charge over a short period of time, also indicates that there would be the capacity to DISCHARGE that electron load just as quickly as it could be put in.
And a rapid discharge of electricity always involves heat, so how is the discharge to be throttled back to useful levels so the wiring does not burst into spitting arcs and open flame? (I know, I know, that is why Doc Brown invented the Flux Capacitor, which makes time travel possible.)
We may have fusion energy before that problem is solved.
I believe it is being used as thermal compound now as well.
Yeah, I know. But I remember reading in my youth about the great inventors and inventions. And the doubters who said that steam would never catch on. And that gas lighting in a home would never work. Would burn your house down. And that no one would want dangerous electricity into their homes. And who would ever ride around on a horseless carriage. And I can even remember myself saying back in the seventies, these damn toy computers (PCs) will never work in a business environment!
The next GREAT battery invention for electric cars is ALWAYS just around the corner. The problem is that these new batteries never actually make it “around the corner” because the REAL WORLD is vicious to batteries, much more so than it is to gasoline. Temperatures from -40 to 120F have to be accommodated, running at varying loads, especially climbing steep hills slowly in hot weather (which often overheats gas cars too), and the demand that they charge fast, very fast.
Ohm’s law applies regardless of the power source. At any given voltage, the load will draw the same current whether it’s from a capacitor, a battery or the power grid. The main problem with capacitors is that they pack a huge wallop when they’re shorted out.
Think of a neighborhood transformer exploding.
Ask the FBI to turn over the Tesla Files taken upon his death!
Given that it was made with GO (graphene oxide), most likely. That's not the safest chemistry.
Indeed. And we might add that carbon and polycarbinate are both wonderful sources for making CO2 in the presence of high temperatures and air.
The miraculous invention of the month that will save the world. Kinda late for February, but it made it! (Never to be heard from again, of course.)
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