Super Capacitors/Graphene
by rwsandoval | September 27, 2016 4:39 pm
Anyone familiar with Super Capacitors? Has there been any changes regarding energy density and charging time.
Speaking off the top of my head, Graphene is the real thing. Super strong. Super fast heat transfer, has been mixed with Aluminum(Cummins has an engine that uses a mixture of Aluminum & Graphene). The polycrystalline/monocrystalline solar[1] cells are said that their use in solar cells may be usurped by Graphene. Even CPU material may go from silicon to graphene[2]. The heat transfer rate of graphene is much, much faster than Aluminum, such that engines may not need a water[3] pump. Instead heat energy can be transferred into recoverable forms. Engines when compared to electric motors are significantly less efficient. Take 28/29% efficiency number for an engine running at a constant speed to a standard electric motor, 85/90% efficient. A sheet of Graphene could support an Elephant if you could put him on it and secure the ends of the sheet.
Any comments?
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I began to research graphene in 2003 while working for the US Government. I believe that you are on the right track thinking that this material, simple 2D carbon, is a revolutionary product that we will see a lot more of in the coming years.
Good Luck!
Thank you for the newsletter information. I have been interested in the improvement in efficiencies ever since the idea the you cannot get more than 1 as a measurement of efficiency seeped into my mind. You can get 10%, 25%, 90%, efficiency, but the limit is 1. I had met the inventor of the breeder reactor, DeBois Blanc. He tried to tell me that he was getting more than 1. I asked him to explain the result of his process. He had to admit that element that he started with, was not the same as what he finished with. History did not find a use for the breeder reactor.
However, this graphene has me intrigued.I had been occupied with making money for my retirement time. Now that time has come, so I can spend more time researching things that interest me. I have to limit my inquires because the are so many thing that I can do, as well as find out what makes things tick/work, more or less efficiently. If you have an area of interest, don’t hesitate to contact me, I might have something to contribute, just might….
In your original posting, you made mention of graphene super capacitors. A very good area to research as, unlike more typical supercapacitors that take a bit of time to charge but discharge in a flash, graphene SC’s can charge quicker and discharge slower making them a good storage device for electricity. Another area you might wish to explore is graphene to store hydrogen. I seem to recall research done at Rensselear Poly that resulted in a graphene cell that could store 25% of its weight in hydrogen. At the time, the Department of Defense cutoff for such cells was 15% of weight before they would even look at the technology. Keep in mind that 25% is almost twice the then DoD standard which made it an exponential increase and not an arithmetic 10% increase. One other noteworthy area to research, assuming you are willing to swim upstream rather than go with the flow, is to use a graphene “net” to capture free electrons in the atmosphere. Surprisingly, there has been successful projects in this arena.