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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Better cheaper super capacitors
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:01:49 +1000
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On 11/09/2024 5:48 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Sep 2024 08:45:22 -0700, john larkin wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 07 Sep 2024 05:24:50 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Achieving a supercapacitor through the 'molecular coating' approach
>>> https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/09/240905121043.htm
>>
>> I doubt that supercaps will ever achieve the energy density of
>> batteries, and if they get close they will be equally explosive.
>>
>> People are inventing super "capacitors" that sound awfully
>> electrochemical to me.
>>
>> The threshold for a press release seems to be to make something that
>> will light an LED, which takes about a microwatt.
> 
> Absent some revolutionary new technology, I suspect you may be right. Mind
> you, we have people who are quite happy to only be able to drive for only
> 200 miles in an EV and wait several hours between re-charges.

Tesla's super-chargers are quicker than that, and 200 miles is a rather 
short range for modern EV.

And electricity is quite a bit cheaper per mile than gasoline.

> And suffer a
> *massive* deprecation on their 2nd biggest asset. *And* pay a fortune to
> have their old battery recycled. Fuggin' idiots.

The "massive depreciation" is a temporary blip in a developing market.

The fuggin' idiot here is Cursitor Doom, who would still be getting 
around by horse and buggy, if he could afford it.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydhney