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Yes, however since they are maintaining the cements structural ability consider that they could replace your houses foundation with a capacitor that could power

Yes, however since they are maintaining the cements structural ability consider that they could replace your houses foundation with a capacitor that could power your house all night long if your solar capacity could both charge it and run your house during the day. Similarly would building facades providing power storage for lighting or other uses during the "off hours"

samstave 3y ago
Build roads from such? Shouldnt it just be an inherant regulated requirement to build roads from materials such as this - but require modular units so as upgrades happen...
- ChuckMcM 3y ago
  Having it in the roads would be interesting but difficult to exploit. One idea I heard pitched was to put coils in the roads connected to nichrome (thermal) wire and then have trucks mount magnets under their trailers. As they drove down the road it would warm the pavement which would de-ice it in the winter. (make it hotter in the summer though, so not particularly practical without a switch).
  - samstave 3y ago
    What if you were to do the same, but with subterannian trains travelling in opposite directions (?) - such that the cars north are met with the subway south and they interact for great justice? (Im serious on the idea, but I dont know the outcome?) (I am talking about huge magnets. if that wasnt clear.) (Symbiotic asymetrical train propusion through shared interior corridor walls) (easy concept... hard execution)
- Deleno 3y ago
  Roads are tear and wear. They are everything but not stable. Also why solar freaking roadways garbage is.
rini17 3y ago
Any large version of this capacitor has to consist of fine layers of material between electrodes and separators. Its structural ability will be very different from bulk cement.
- ChuckMcM 3y ago
  That is precisely correct. The article went to lengths to describe how they maintain cement's compression strength which is the primary stress axis for house foundations. It would definitely make constructing a foundation more time consuming (not the pump concrete out of a truck and fill up the forms that is is today) but there isn't anything in the article or their paper that suggests this wouldn't be a reasonable application. (again, maybe not cost effective, but that is a different axis of trade-offs)
  - rini17 3y ago
    They don't mention = they weren't concerned. Yes normally it's primarily the vertical axis but you don't want these layers slipping sideways in case of light earthquake. Or water from outside getting in not only messing the electrolyte but also causing whole thing to swell. There are plenty of potential problems, needs much more r&d.

samstave 3y ago

Build roads from such? Shouldnt it just be an inherant regulated requirement to build roads from materials such as this - but require modular units so as upgrades happen...

ChuckMcM 3y ago
Having it in the roads would be interesting but difficult to exploit. One idea I heard pitched was to put coils in the roads connected to nichrome (thermal) wire and then have trucks mount magnets under their trailers. As they drove down the road it would warm the pavement which would de-ice it in the winter. (make it hotter in the summer though, so not particularly practical without a switch).
- samstave 3y ago
  What if you were to do the same, but with subterannian trains travelling in opposite directions (?) - such that the cars north are met with the subway south and they interact for great justice? (Im serious on the idea, but I dont know the outcome?) (I am talking about huge magnets. if that wasnt clear.) (Symbiotic asymetrical train propusion through shared interior corridor walls) (easy concept... hard execution)
Deleno 3y ago
Roads are tear and wear. They are everything but not stable. Also why solar freaking roadways garbage is.

rini17 3y ago

Any large version of this capacitor has to consist of fine layers of material between electrodes and separators. Its structural ability will be very different from bulk cement.

ChuckMcM 3y ago
That is precisely correct. The article went to lengths to describe how they maintain cement's compression strength which is the primary stress axis for house foundations. It would definitely make constructing a foundation more time consuming (not the pump concrete out of a truck and fill up the forms that is is today) but there isn't anything in the article or their paper that suggests this wouldn't be a reasonable application. (again, maybe not cost effective, but that is a different axis of trade-offs)
- rini17 3y ago
  They don't mention = they weren't concerned. Yes normally it's primarily the vertical axis but you don't want these layers slipping sideways in case of light earthquake. Or water from outside getting in not only messing the electrolyte but also causing whole thing to swell. There are plenty of potential problems, needs much more r&d.