How a Microscopic Supercapacitor Will Supercharge Mobile Electronics

Re:How a Microscopic Supercapacitor Will Supercharge Mobile ... by ridgeguy on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @10:00PM (#10308768)

Agree - rate of energy release is everything.

A pound of hamburger releases about 1152 kcal, or about 4.8 megaJoules of energy when metabolized over a day or so after it's eaten.

One pound of TNT releases about 2 megaJoules of energy in a few microseconds when it's detonated.

Big difference in the results. One makes me fat. The other makes me dead.

I'd be worried about a super capacitor that contained a week's worth of my laptop energy, and that might release it in a second.

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Re:How a Microscopic Supercapacitor Will Supercharge Mobile ... by pavs on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @10:17PM (#10308826)

> Big difference in the results. One makes me fat. The other makes me dead.

Well both makes you dead, but at different rate...

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Re:How a Microscopic Supercapacitor Will Supercharge Mobile ... by jmichelz on Friday October 02, 2015 @02:09PM (#10320209)

Actually the bun (and ketchup) makes you fat. The meat (and fat in it) makes you thin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Get_Fat

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