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That's an ultra fluxcapacitor pack.



There, fixed it for ya, Bill! ;)

ltdiver




Ok...I died laughing when I read that...:D:D:D...

~R+R:)...I know...I'm a dork...:S...



But, fine police officer, man....I HAD to get it up to 88 mph for it to work! :)

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What happens if I stick it on my tongue??:P



you'll find out if it's charged ;)



Been there, done that (not the tongue, but my arms) Hurt like hell and burned a few of my fingers pretty bad. The capacitor I was screwing with was about 1/3-1/4 the size of that one too.

I pay attention to the warning labels now....B|

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>How does it work? What does it use to store power?

It's a capacitor. In its simplest form, a capacitor is two insulated metal plates close to each other. Put a lot of electrons on one plate (i.e. give it a 'negative charge') and they will stay there until you take them out. Capacitors are all over - you probably have 200 of them in your computer alone - but until recently could only store small amounts of charge in them. Now they are a lot better.

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>if it would take ten seconds to charge it, what sort of charger would
>it need.

A massive one. You'd need as much power as your average city block if you wanted to do it in ten seconds. It would be big enough that you'd want to permanently mount it on a pedestal at a gas station or something.

>If I had a hybrid, and electric was supplied by this capacitor, would
>it take three hours to charge it off the the power generated by the
> car motor?

If it was a hybrid, it would take (calculator time) about 5 minutes to fully charge the pack I described above, assuming a 25kW motor/generator and a pack made up of 300 modules. Of course, in your typical hybrid, the battery never gets fully charged or discharged; it just 'smooths out' the peaks and valleys of power demand from the engine.

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>58 farads at 15 volts. 25 kilojoules storage.

oops, make that 6.5kJ of storage. Serves me right trying to use this Windows calculator.

Four of these packs in a railgun could get a projectile the size of a .38 slug to 1780fps. Recharge would take a while though.

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how much energy is that in units of "elephants at an altitude of 10km"?



Forget that, I wanna' know how may LoC's (Libraries of Congress) that is.:P
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oops, make that 6.5kJ of storage. Serves me right trying to use this Windows calculator.

Four of these packs in a railgun could get a projectile the size of a .38 slug to 1780fps. Recharge would take a while though.



Okay, that makes more sense. I was reading 25kJ and wondering why we were waiting 15 years!B|
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how much energy is that in units of "elephants at an altitude of 10km"?


Forget that, I wanna' know how may LoC's (Libraries of Congress) that is.:P



Space shuttle fuel tanks was my other favorite... and we have to be able to work football fields into this somehow...

Would these things suffer any signifigant life degredation if you charged them really quickly? say, by using another, higher capacity cap?

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>58 farads at 15 volts. 25 kilojoules storage.

oops, make that 6.5kJ of storage. Serves me right trying to use this Windows calculator.

Four of these packs in a railgun could get a projectile the size of a .38 slug to 1780fps. Recharge would take a while though.



IIRC, that's about 30 times the power output of a defibrillator thingy....B|

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Gawd that seems huge - 10 Years ago a few of us ham-radio geeks were sitting in our club shack wonder how big a full 1-farad capacitor would have to be, let alone 58 farad. (We had been given a whole bunch if big-as-a-beer-can caps for building power supplies, etc.) Getting hit by that would kill a guy for sure.

We've come along way, baby!

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How soon until we see capacitors powering short-range airplanes (crop dusters, sight-seeing, skydiving, etc.).
Can you imagine a jump plane quietly pulling up to the loading dock, ground plugging in a cable, a leisurely 4 minute loading process, then taking off with only wind noise?

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How soon until we see capacitors powering short-range airplanes (crop dusters, sight-seeing, skydiving, etc.).
Can you imagine a jump plane quietly pulling up to the loading dock, ground plugging in a cable, a leisurely 4 minute loading process, then taking off with only wind noise?



Now that would be seriously kick ass!
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How soon until we see capacitors powering short-range airplanes (crop dusters, sight-seeing, skydiving, etc.).
Can you imagine a jump plane quietly pulling up to the loading dock, ground plugging in a cable, a leisurely 4 minute loading process, then taking off with only wind noise?



Now that would be seriously kick ass!



What, no smell of jet fuel in the morning?! ;)

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