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EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor
An anonymous reader sends us to GM-volt.com, an electric vehicle enthusiast blog, for the news that last week EEStor was granted a US patent for their electric-energy storage unit, of which no one outside the company (no one who is talking, anyway) has seen so much as a working prototype. We've discussed the company on a number of occasions. The patent (PDF) is a highly information-rich document that offers remarkable insight into the device. EEStor notes "the present invention provides a unique lightweight electric-energy storage unit that has the capability to store ultrahigh amounts of energy." "The core ingredient is an aluminum coated barium titanate powder immersed in a polyethylene terephthalate plastic matrix. The EESU is composed of 31,353 of these components arranged in parallel. It is said to have a total capacitance of 30.693 F and can hold 52.220 kWh of energy. The device is said to have a weight of 281.56 pound including the box and all hardware. Unlike lithium-ion cells, the technology is said not to degrade with cycling and thus has a functionally unlimited lifetime. It is mentioned the device cannot explode when being charge or impacted and is thus safe for vehicles."
What's the benefit of a patent for something that doesn't exist yet? At most, they're issued for things that are obvious or have existed for decades. ;)
I wonder what they will charge for this?
the present invention provides a unique lightweight electric-energy storage unit that has the capability to store ultrahigh amounts of energy
Can't you express these things in units we all all understand, like jigawatts per nanofornight?
... and then they built the supercollider.
Would two these across the inputs of my amplifier boost bass response?
k, not kw.
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But when you're using Kelvin-wh's, what does it matter?
"But it works in this simulation software that I have just coded! How this cannot count as an 'working device'?!"
And this is *totally* safe right ? Inside the box is a 52,000 kwh magnetic field. Around that box we have metal (a car) and magnets (an electrical motor).
Does anyone really need convincing of exactly what will happen when the box is pierced by metal ?
Yes it's electrical energy, so the driver might get thoroughly cooked instead of thrown out of the car.
Well whatever unit it is, 640k of them ought to be enough for anyone.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I get a kick out of that as well. I know capacitors. and they can explode.
Gimmie one and a way to significantly exceed it's specifications.
I'm guessing 72,000V at and inrush current of 20 amps would make this thing explode.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
we like massless frictionless spherical monkeys hanging from massless ropes attached to frictionless pullies, thankyouverymuch.
Ahhh you must be from the Theoretical Physics Department, over here in Engineering we have wind resistance, friction and efficiency to worry about.
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Ahh you're from the Engineering department... Over here in the Manufacturing department we have to worry about cost ,liability ,feasibility ,and marketability to worry about.
and don't you dare talk to marketing, both of you will confuse them and those idiots will go out telling everyone we can go 10,000 miles and charge in 6 seconds for -$10.00.. "Why you'll make money!" they will market this very wrong.
So when marketing comes by, look sad and say it kills puppies.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
What's your problem with Kelvin*Watt*Henry? I have to admit that I have no Idea what that could possibly measure, but it's still valid.
I'm from the Legal Department, and I just got off the phone with $ANIMAL_RIGHTS_GROUP.
Apparently someone has been telling marketing that we kill puppies for fun, and they spun it as a feature.
Anyone want to explain to the R&D Department why their funding is getting cut?
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This conversation has just taken a turn for the absurd... ...LY DELICIOUS!
I claim first use of "Error No. 0B" - or "No. 0B error." It'll be the new ID 10T!
And beyond that, who wants to measure energy in Michael Jacksons?
"The big gasoline puddle could then catch fire."
Which was complemented by the tendency of the doors to jam shut when the car crumpled from being ass-ended.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
Not a big deal. Back when I used to work on high powered lasers I accidentally used myself to discharge a bank of 30kv capacitors and it didn' t affect affect affect affect me one little b-b-b-b-b-bit.
Kidding aside, every single muscle in my body hurt like hell. Muscles I didn't know I had hurt.
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There's a much safer way of charging your EV from overhead power cables for free. People have been doing it to heat their homes (illegally, of course) in outlying areas of Canada for years: place an inductor under a 350kV powerline & run wires to your house. The powerline operators hate it because the inductance messes up their power factor, and the poachers eventually get caught because the powerline operators sporadically use a small plane to patrol their rights of way for inductors. But, a 10 minute recharge-and-flee time would make detection near-impossible!