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But they're talking about applications like batteries. I don't think you want an explosion going off in your pants. Either kind. Here's the news release from t
by itistoday 16y ago
But they're talking about applications like batteries. I don't think you want an explosion going off in your pants. Either kind.
Here's the news release from their campus site, detailing some of the supposed applications:
http://www.wsunews.wsu.edu/pages/publications.asp?Action=Detail&PublicationID=20580&TypeID=1 http://www.wsunews.wsu.edu/pages/publications.asp?Action=Det...
- hugh3 16y agoAs I said below (or possibly above) this material is only energy-dense when it's in its most compressed state. To get the energy out you have to expand it again, at which point you find that you need a vast apparatus to store your energy. Remember, the state of the art in energy storage is a metal tank filled with liquid hydrocarbons. It's pretty damn hard to beat for price, reliability, safety [ * ] and energy density. What we really want is a more efficient way of producing those hydrocarbons out of water, CO2 and energy. [ * ] Relative to most ways of storing large quantities of energy, that is.
- eru 16y agoIndeed. What comes close, if you do not care about moving around with energy stored in it and safety at the same time, is the humble fly-wheel.
- hugh3 16y agoAlso as long as you don't care about energy leakage -- no matter how good your bearings are, they're imperfect. Flywheels store energy for minutes or hours, batteries for days or weeks, non-volatile hydrocarbons for millions of years.