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It isn't a charging technology for existing batteries, the BBC are doing very crappy reporting. It is an ultra-capacitor made of peptides instead of a battery.
by lotsofmangos 12y ago
It isn't a charging technology for existing batteries, the BBC are doing very crappy reporting. It is an ultra-capacitor made of peptides instead of a battery.
- kefka 12y agoI wouldn't doubt that the BBC is doing bad reporting. My concern is over using supercaps: their density is still very low compared to Li-ions on a volume basis. Also, I noticed they are using a Samsung phone. Last time I used a supercap in a project, I had to build a complex circuit that compensates for exponential voltage drop but outputs constant voltage and amperage. I want to know how they got around that issue as well.
- raverbashing 12y agoWon't a boost converter solve this? It's probably a more complicated version, but the idea is the same.
- kefka 12y agoIt would. But like I said, they were using a Samsung S(something). There's no way, aside using a different mainboard, to make the phone have a charge rate of 5C or higher. That's just the details of the phone charging hardware. I would have believed it more if they used a MediaTek chip based phone. They could have hacked and modified those all they wanted.