Somebody should mod up the parent. Providing such a battery/capacitor is feasible in the first place, charging it at the ridiculous rates calculated is a non issue. Standardize the pac and connectors and swap for a full one (or multiples if you have a large/extended range vehicle, you could even carry a spare for long trips). The fillup is just the swap time (ie. seconds) and the "filling station" can either slow charge a rotating stock or actually have them delivered/removed by truck just like gasoline is now. This also provides the advantage of charging during off peak hours and leveling the load on generation capacity. In other words we don't need as many more plants to handle peak demand and during off peak hours stations and centralized charging depots (perhaps right by the generating stations to avoid transmission losses) can dump the energy in to the standardized charge pacs. As a bonus these pacs could be used/stockpiled for emergency electical supply residentially or commercially.
I have polished many library CDs (if you want to test your method just take some of these babies out of the library and you can see what abuse really means) with brasso and it works great. I have never tried any of the filling methods. This is what I do:
-Shake the Brasso well. -Wet the tip of a soft cloth with some. -Place the CD on a hard, smooth, flat surface (bottom up of course). -Tackle any deep, circumferential scratches first with a hard polish along the scratch. -If the CD is bad all over do swirls/orbital polishing all around. Hard at first and then softer. -Let it dry. -With clean areas of the the cloth progressively buff around the CD in light swirls. -Finish off with some radial buffing. -Clean with some IPA if required (a good first step if the is just oily crud on it). -Enjoy.
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Somebody should mod up the parent. Providing such a battery/capacitor is feasible in the first place, charging it at the ridiculous rates calculated is a non issue. Standardize the pac and connectors and swap for a full one (or multiples if you have a large/extended range vehicle, you could even carry a spare for long trips). The fillup is just the swap time (ie. seconds) and the "filling station" can either slow charge a rotating stock or actually have them delivered/removed by truck just like gasoline is now. This also provides the advantage of charging during off peak hours and leveling the load on generation capacity. In other words we don't need as many more plants to handle peak demand and during off peak hours stations and centralized charging depots (perhaps right by the generating stations to avoid transmission losses) can dump the energy in to the standardized charge pacs. As a bonus these pacs could be used/stockpiled for emergency electical supply residentially or commercially.
I have polished many library CDs (if you want to test your method just take some of these babies out of the library and you can see what abuse really means) with brasso and it works great. I have never tried any of the filling methods. This is what I do:
-Shake the Brasso well.
-Wet the tip of a soft cloth with some.
-Place the CD on a hard, smooth, flat surface (bottom up of course).
-Tackle any deep, circumferential scratches first with a hard polish along the scratch.
-If the CD is bad all over do swirls/orbital polishing all around. Hard at first and then softer.
-Let it dry.
-With clean areas of the the cloth progressively buff around the CD in light swirls.
-Finish off with some radial buffing.
-Clean with some IPA if required (a good first step if the is just oily crud on it).
-Enjoy.
Couldn't agree more. Just get a Squeezebox for $200 and spend the rest on hard drives.