Ultracapacitors Soon to Replace Many Batteries? 415
einhverfr writes "According to an article in the IEEE Spectrun, the synergy between batteries and capacitors — two of the sturdiest and oldest components of electrical engineering — has been growing, to the point where ultracapacitors may soon be almost as indispensable to portable electricity as batteries are now. Some researchers expect to soon create capacitors capable of storing 50% as much energy as a lithium ion battery of the same size. Such capacitors could revolutionize many areas possibly from mobile computing (no worries about battery memory), electricity-powered vehicles, and more."
HEY! (Score:5, Funny)
I want my friggin 15 hour battery life laptop first! You promised!
Better tasers? (Score:3, Funny)
obvious (Score:4, Funny)
Yes, but are they as incendiary as a SONY battery of the same size?
Re:Better tasers? (Score:1, Funny)
Could someone explain the jargon? (Score:5, Funny)
Are Ultra capacitors like flux Capacitors that you can use to go through time once you're travelling at 88mph? If so I don't think this will be very efficient at all since they require 1.42 Gigawatts!
Re:Do they burst and leak fluid? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:obvious (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Don't short it out... (Score:5, Funny)
You know you read qwantz.com too much when... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oldest and sturdiest? (Score:5, Funny)
You must be new here... idiot.
Re:Do they burst and leak fluid? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Better tasers? (Score:2, Funny)
Shouldn't that be: (Score:0, Taserbait)
Re:HEY! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Interesting - crashes? (Score:5, Funny)
The solution if you run out of energy? Just wait for someone to hit you.
No, I'm New Here (Score:1, Funny)
Re:HEY! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Could someone explain the jargon? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:But entropy is reversible.. (Score:3, Funny)
Is it wrong that this seems vaguely threatening to me? While I know everything we do either has no effect or introduces more entropy into the universe, something about "every time you charge your phone you bring the entire universe closer to its death" is just a turn-off.
Also, this is suddenly my favorite vague defamation statement... "X lives an entropy-positive lifestyle, and every day brings us closer to the end of the entire universe!"
Re:Do they burst and leak fluid? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Do they burst and leak fluid? (Score:4, Funny)