Re: Nanotube Supercapacitors

From: John S. Novak, III (jsn_at_panix.com)
Date: 02/18/05 

Date: 18 Feb 2005 04:22:52 GMT

In article <cv13td01pb8@enews3.newsguy.com>, John Larkin wrote:
> On 16 Feb 2005 04:52:24 GMT, manofsan@yahoo.com wrote:

>>Nanotubes break records for supercapacitor performance:
>>http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=7287
>>Will this finally make electric cars economical? Will batteries go
>>obsolete?
 
> "Could be manufactured from carbon nanotubes"
 
> sounds awfully speculative to me.
 
Oh, c'mon, John. Sounds like you didn't bother to read the article.
I did. It's "awfully speculative," yes, in the sense that these
things aren't on the shelves or might not take off due to the vagaries
of market capital. But, having read the paper, I can say that it's
not as speculative as you're trying to make it sound.

The paper isn't an idea paper, it's an experimental results paper.
That means Du, et al., actually went and built the damned thing in the
fabrication lab, walked it down the hall to the test lab and measured
it with the favorable results reported therein.

(On the other hand, no, they're not going to replace batteries.
That's just silly.) 

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John S. Novak, III              jsn@cegt201.bradley.edu
The Humblest Man on the Net

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