Perhaps electric cars do have a chance????
Create an Instant Battery from Ordinary Paper

Consider that the Hybrids need an efficient short cycle storage system with thousands of charge/discharge cycles and easily formed geomotries to fit power storage units in small cars.
This technology could out perform lithium.

roadster with a stick

 

Too cool...

 

Holy crap, Franc!

This is pretty fascinating stuff! Personally, I like the idea of off-peak hour storage. It would make many of our alternative energy producing technologies more feasible.
Of course, just how much paper are we talking about here to make it practical? Hey, maybe these guys have just found another way to use recycled paper!

 

Great find Franc!

My mind is churning with new ideas for a faster and longer flying paper airplane.

 

My mind is working on the attrition involved. Paper comes from trees and one must wonder how many tree huggers must die so we can have a greener fleet of cars on the road.

I do wish they were on the endangered species list.


roadster with a stick

 

Oh gawd, I didn't even think about the environmentalrisk. How many spotted owls are going to be destroyed in this attempt to be "green"?

Sarcasm aside, I applaud the new technology.

 

Recycle them once you're done with them LOL.

 

Actually this is better than a battery that has chemicals and wear out characteristics.

THey are referring to electrostatic storage devices called capacitors like the one probably in your PC now. These SUPER capacitors are to keep alive the memory of the cmos goodies.

Some of these were formed using carbon -charcoal like substrait which like activated carbon has very large surface area to volume. They can be charged and discharged rapidly and are even in model airplanes.

Woody

 

Without nuke plants to cleanly and efficiently recharge these things, batteries are merely a feel-good exercise in futility. The rest of the world brings nuclear power plants on line every day, but the liberal do-gooders of America still shiver at the thought of replacing our own facilities that were constructed in the '70s.

Relying on forty-year-old nuclear fission technology. Yikes.

New and improved batteries? So what?

 

going green is a joke, I was looking at freezers the other day and the smaller freezer that I need because it's just me and my wife and we don't need to hold a years worth of food is not energy star rated yet using a 1/3 of the energy the big a$$ freezers do. It's just another part of our consumer culture that bigger is always better, I mean it has to be better because it's freakin huge.