Article about high voltage ultracap with high capacity and low weight.
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I hope it can be made to meet the hype, now if we just can get nuclear energy going in the USA.
Mike
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17 years ago
Is this the "battery" breakthrough?
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17 years ago
This has already been looked over by capacitor experts, and it looks like hogwash-- yes you can make capacitors with ultra-capacity using barium titanate, but as soon as you apply significant voltage, the capacitance of this material goes waaaaaaaaay down. In other words, it may measure 1000 Farads per cm^3 on the capacitance meter, which applies 10mv AC, but as soon as you try applying DC, the capacitance goes down by a factor of 10 or more.
Now *maybe* they've found some way to dope the material with transfrangified Blue Kryptonite to nullify this major contrusion, but that's not mentioned in TFA.