• LughMA
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    3 days ago

    I get that capacitators are only good for seconds at a time, but given their other advantages, I wonder why people don’t build batteries with them, where hundreds or thousands of cells are individual capacitators that get used in sequence.

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      3 days ago

      I’m thinking it’s about size. But these graphene advancements have the potential to change everything

      • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Yes, size is the big issue. And that’s linked to power density. In the video they say normal battery has 200-400 Wh/kg and these superscapacitors get 7-11 Wh/kg.

        That means your phone that lasts a day with the same size in superscapacitors now only lasts an hour. Or the range of an EV goes from 500 miles to 20 miles.