supercapacitors will trump batteries

[vironika]

Elon Musk believes that supercapacitors will trump batteries. I read an article over the internet about that subject matter. I believe the eestor ultracapacitor will allow an electric car to charge in about 5 minutes and have a driving range between 250 miles and 500 miles.

[TheOne]

Yes but  eestor ultracapacitor is a dead company since Lockheed Martin is part of this company....

[sparks]

A fully charged Tesla capacitor trumps them all.   10to the 10th farads at 10,000 volts.  The mass of the copper is used in a tesla coil/cap not the surface area.  These supercaps are just increased surface reactions.  Tesla realized if you don't want your dielectric to perforate you had better make damn sure your geometry is correct.  Capaciitor mfgs. just keep doing the same old same old to increase power density.  A 30lb tesla coil cap could power an electric vehicle for close to six months without recharge.  The supercaps a second maybe. The increased surface area relies solely on skin effects. In etching aluminum to create more surface area the result is that more charge resides on the edges of the etch than in the substrate.  Deposition of the dielectric has to be increased due to the edge effects and results in a real mess.  Voltage ratings have to be lowered self-healing chemistry-capacitors opening up due to internal lightning eddy currents on and on.
Tesla broached the problem back in the 19th century totally unheeded by the idiots developing secret electrolytes and polluting rivers streams and harbors with poly-chlorinated bi-phenols. Most of you here are aware of the problems integrated circuits are having with parasitic capacitance.  Tesla didn't have a problem with parasitic capacitance he utilized it.  The big circuit between the ionosphere f1 layer and the big charged up ball we ride around on produced parasitic capacitance effects in Tesla's circuits.  I believe it was quite intentiional.  Tesla wanted to use this effect to charge and discharge the total mass of copper wire strung between points a and b.  Charging and discharging this megacapacitor through a generator.  The generator inductance matched to the capacity of the entire network.  Man was truly ingenious.

[fritznien]

can you discribe a telsacap in greater detail?
sounds interesting.

[sparks]

   The below patent gives us insight to what Tesla would later utilize in his magnifying transmitter.  What I suggest is that his magnifying transmitter was magnifying the energy gains of the spark gap due to the casimier effect where gravity acceleration takes place of the plasma fronts.  The plasma acceleration would cause a current rise of very high frequency that would then be distributed through the coil/capacitor,  This high-frequency gain would be stored in a tuned tank circuit.  The tuned circuit is then pumped up to as much energy as it can take before the charge of the mass compromises the insulation and results in ionization of the surrounding dielectric and coronal discharge.  By making the tank parameters such that they totally block transmission of the frequency generated in the gap the energy of course stays in the blocking oscillator.  The blocking oscillator is the coil/cap itself.
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