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Originally posted by Wildbob77
I was reading an article about 10 years ago. It discussed one of the biggest fears of the oil producing countries.
That is of course a super efficient battery. This technology could give way to practical electric vehicles. That would crush the price of oil and relegate the oil producing countries to economic insignificance.
I hope this is perused to a useable product.
Originally posted by mr10k
Originally posted by Urantia1111
reply to post by grey580
A lot of times these technologies don't "pan out", not because they're not practical and useful, but specifically because they ARE practical and useful AND a threat to oil profits. The labs get shut down, the researchers commit "suicide" and the new invention disappears.
When are people going to learn that oil is the BEST way to store and use energy.
What does oil have to do with electric batteries. The electric cars are already there, what do they expect to do? Convert oil to electricity with equipment in electric cars? That's not even feasible enough to be considered.
Linky
The wheels of the car are always powered electrically. In extended-range mode, which activates whenever the battery has reached its minimum state of charge, power is seamlessly inverted to the electric drive unit from a generator driven by the 1.4-liter, 63 kW/86 hp gasoline engine
Originally posted by bigwig22
reply to post by David557
Unfortunately this is not a device that generates energy.
Its 'only' a device that is supposed to store it better than the tech we currently use.
But i looooooooveee that!
Originally posted by Chippa
reply to post by amtarcher
It's not a big deal!!!
This was being done at UCLA and reported on March of last year!!!
SEE This. www.zdnet.com...
Originally posted by grey580
If they can actually get this to work rechargeable cars might actually be replacing gasoline powered cars.
Originally posted by Chippa
reply to post by ChaoticOrder
It isn't a battery. It is a capacitor. There is a huge difference.
Companies have been at work on creating new super-capacitors for a long time. These carbon based supercaps have been around for a long, long time already.
The whole goal has been to create a small (physical) size capacitor, with a huge storage capability. This thing you are seeing is already the size of a DVD, and it doesn't store as much energy as already available super caps on the market right now.
Originally posted by Chippa
Whoa! Not so fast everyone. Graphene is Carbon. Carbon capacitors where the first super-capacitors out of the Box.
Back in the early 80's I was charging up 1 Farad Capacitors, and running LED's for around 15 minutes or maybe it was 20 minutes. So the dude lighting his LED in the OP post for what was it 10minutes?? - is far short of the little beggar I held in my hands, back in the 80's. And it was much smaller.
The problem with this disk, ( my guess), is that this crazy DVD coated with the graphene probably only produces a 1.2 volt cell. This is the key!!! You will have to put a lot of these layers together to get anything higher than a 1.2 volt capacity, when you do this you reduce the overall capacitance, then suddenly you have a really big stack of graphene coated DVD's to get any usable charge out of it.
Supercaps have been around since the 80's, but the problem is always the darn 1.2 volt cell. Even regular batteries run into this basic cell voltage limitation.
I am skeptical!!!
Originally posted by tkwasny
The instant current draw will be very high. You'll need 000 gauge cables.
It isn't a battery. It is a capacitor. There is a huge difference.
Companies have been at work on creating new super-capacitors for a long time. These carbon based supercaps have been around for a long, long time already.
The whole goal has been to create a small (physical) size capacitor, with a huge storage capability. This thing you are seeing is already the size of a DVD, and it doesn't store as much energy as already available super caps on the market right now.
It's almost as if you haven't read or watched anything in this thread and you're just making stuff up...