Oct

3

More Than Doubling the Power In a Capacitor

October 3, 2011 | 2 Comments

With super and ultra capacitors and EEStor still far too expensive, not available if not simply vapor – capacitors need something to perk up the storage market. Dr.  Xie Xian Ning from the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative has developed the world’s first energy-storage membrane promising greater cost-effectiveness in delivering energy. [...]

May

27

A Better Cheaper SuperCapacitor

May 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment

There was a temptation to headline with the word ‘natural’ as Dr. Woo Lee, the George Meade Bond Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the Stevens Institute of Technology and his senior design team of Rachel Kenion, Liana Vaccari, and Katie Van Strander has designed biochar electrodes for supercapacitors. Today supercapacitors are used [...]

May

13

Competition for EEStor With Activated Graphene

May 13, 2011 | 3 Comments

U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists Dong Su and Eric Stach have helped to uncover the nanoscale structure of a novel form of carbon, contributing to an explanation of why this new material acts like a super-absorbent sponge when it comes to soaking up electric charge. The excitement is about a new material [...]

Apr

29

The EEStor News

April 29, 2011 | 12 Comments

With total silence from the EEStor firm and its known associates one bit of news has made it out.  To summarize in the briefest way – EEStor is progressing. That maximum condensing comes from the Bariumtitanate.blogspot.com where news and posts are just difficult to get. A click over there I’m sure would be welcome.  Having [...]

Dec

27

The EEstor News

December 27, 2010 | 20 Comments

* This Space Left Blank Intentionally * The comments and emails over the past year deserve some response and the notation above, familiar to those who’ve seen prepared legal documents will see the humor, explains the situation.  Looking for EEstor news and information in 2010 is a very thin activity. But does it mean anything? [...]

Apr

29

Get Ready For the Super Ultra Capacitor

April 29, 2010 | 14 Comments

The latest news in energy storage has Drexel University with a new piece out that notes in a paper published in Science by John Chmiola doubling supercapacitors storage and then MIT Technology Review marking it up to triple. It’s a little amusing, yet Chmiola is on to something. Chmiola idea is to use an electrode [...]

Apr

19

Ultracapacitors Ready for Power Storage

April 19, 2010 | 7 Comments

When you couple ultracapacitors with lithium batteries performance of an electric vehicle is dramatically boosted. Ultracapacitors give electric vehicles the instant response needed to get going, recover braking energy, work across a wide temperature range, and charge very quickly for thousands or millions of cycles.  There is more out there than Eestor, and some are [...]

Dec

24

Understanding Digital Quantum Capacitors

December 24, 2009 | 3 Comments

To start, lets get the digital quantum battery misnomer out of the way.  What’s being discussed here and other places isn’t about battery building; it’s about a theoretical construction of a nano-sized capacitor.  It’s interesting as the storage medium isn’t like a conventional capacitor with the material between the anode and cathode holding the energy.  [...]

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