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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?! ;)

ltdiver



They'd hang one of those pine tree scent thingys from the instrument panel... ;)
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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?! ;)

ltdiver



They'd hang one of those pine tree scent thingys from the instrument panel... ;)



LOL! :ph34r:

ltdiver

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon

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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|



That really points out one of the disadvantages of supercapacitor systems (and flywheels). You can get all of the energy out at once. A gasoline fire would just be a gentle warmth compared to running a guard rail through a charged capacitor pack. OTOH, they would be great as part of a hybrid vehicle, getting rid of the NiMH battery pack.

I'm not an EE, but if you had a big capacitor and a big inductor (the motor), the system should be resonant at some frequency. Just bury cables in the road and drive them at that frequency and you wouldn't need much onboard storage at all.

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