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Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by XorNot on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @06:59PM (#36964442)
They don't store any meaningful amount of electricity (which is why they haven't supplanted Li-Ion batteries for power tools) and more importantly they have a cycle-life - they degrade from usage (source: my wife works for a supercapacitor manufacturer).

You also get losses from practical usage - i.e. no one can build a 3V supercapacitor that has decent endurance (you can totally build one which will work, but you're rating it knowing that every cycle is damaging it).

Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by skykooler on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @12:57AM (#36967115)
Why do cycles damage supercapacitors? My understanding is that in batteries this is caused by ions not returning to their original spot in the electrodes, but I thought only the electrons moved in capacitors?
Re:A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments by amelius on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:11AM (#36968953)
Electrostatic force?

Heat?