[GRLUG] OFF TOPIC Electric Car

[Collin Kidder]

Tim Schmidt wrote:
> The companies _already_ churning out supercapacitors as fast as they
> can would kindly like to disagree.
>
> Most supercapacitors use various exotic physical formations of carbon.
>  They simply don't wear out - or wear at all.  And energy loss during
> charging and discharge is ridiculously low.
>
> >From here on out it's a straightforward game of making them bigger,
> denser, and cheaper - all of which we (the electronics industry) are
> very very good at doing.
>
> --tim
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Well, to be fair they wear out *some*. It's just that a capacitor could 
take something like 100,000 charge cycles.