Comments on: Make Your Own Supercapacitor with an Ordinary DVD

By: Kurtis Engle

Kurtis Engle — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 22:44:00 +0000

Batteries hold a lot more power, but have heat problems at high amps. Supercapacitors are BULKY for the power they hold, but can charge/discharge REAL FAST.

I only say that because Tina said :

“Supercapacitors store energy like batteries, but they charge up and discharge far more quickly, giving them the potential to pack more power into a ===>smaller<===, lighter space."

Tina would have been right, if that word 'smaller' had been 'larger'.

By: San Diego Loves Green – UCLA makes Breakthrough in Energy Storage: Graphene Micro Supercapacitors

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:06:17 +0000

[…] made from available material — to mass produce these micro supercapacitors (a research project CleanTechnica reported on back in March 2012). The researchers published their findings in the February 2013 issue […]

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:07:00 +0000

Some time back I worried that storage would be the stumbling block to getting us off fossil fuels. But now that we have turned some of our best minds to the job there are tremendous breakthroughs happening at what seems to be an ever increasing rate.

Supercapacitors can play a great role. They charge so rapidly that they can serve uses where the job stays close to a charge source. Think fork lifts and mobile factory equipment that doesn’t wander outside the building. Buses that run fixed routes. Just give them enough range to last an hour or two and places to pause for a few seconds to pick up more hours.

We’re seeing lots and lots of new tech coming out of university labs and new startups. Someone recently pointed out that large, established companies tend to not talk much about what they’ve got in the works until it’s on its way to stores. I wonder what the big battery companies have in their labs….