From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Sun Mar 03 2002 - 16:06:02 MST
Colin Hales wrote:
> I'm all excited because I've been waiting for some sort of potential method
> for building ultra-capacitors for a long time. Lots of suface area *plus*
> very small separations, along with physical strength and good dielectric
> constant - this is the first real sign of it. I want to see an end to
> chemical batteries. I'll get my electric car yet.
>
> The nano-technology of fractal nothingness.
I've got a couple of sample carbon-aerogel supercapacitors right now. 10
Farad, 2.75 volt, the size of AA cells with incredibly low ESR. Nifty. I'm
torn between building some sort of BEAM device and using them for spotwelding
thermocouple junctions...
MMB
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