23rd June 2010, 12:02 AM
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010...hicles.ars
This is a pretty big deal if it can be mass produced and has a very high number of recharges before it wears out. The only issue is the obvious safety concern, as dumping capacitor levels of energy out of a battery if it shorts could be bad. However some simple safeties can be put in place.
This is a pretty big deal if it can be mass produced and has a very high number of recharges before it wears out. The only issue is the obvious safety concern, as dumping capacitor levels of energy out of a battery if it shorts could be bad. However some simple safeties can be put in place.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
