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| From | Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> |
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| Newsgroups | sci.electronics.design |
| Subject | Re: Surplus electricity |
| Date | 2026-03-25 22:03 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> wrote: > On 03/25/2026 02:32 PM, john larkin wrote: >> On Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:38:09 -0400, Phil Hobbs >> <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote: >> >>> On 2026-03-25 12:17, john larkin wrote: >>>> On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:28:35 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 26/03/2026 1:10 am, Ross Finlayson wrote: >>>>>> On 03/25/2026 04:21 AM, Bill Sloman wrote: >>>>>>> On 25/03/2026 6:14 pm, Ross Finlayson wrote: >>>>>>>> On 03/24/2026 09:21 PM, Don Y wrote: >>>>>>>>>> Seems the most valuable use-case for "surplus electricity" >>>>>>>>>> would be "gasoline-producing machines". >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> LOL! It would be easier -- and safer -- to just buy an electric >>>>>>>>> vehicle and dump charge into that. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> But, that assumes your vehicle is always in need of charging... >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> There are a wide variety of devices, systems, and vehicles >>>>>>>> that depend on liquid fuel. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> The grid is nowhere near capable of fulfilling that. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Not yet. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> For example, in urban environments, there are not >>>>>>>> enough extension cables and not enough outlets, >>>>>>>> to trickle charge into various technologies of >>>>>>>> electrochemical batteries. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> What's actually needed are induction chargers. Plugging in a plug erode >>>>>>> the mating surfaces. Putting a receiving coil above a charging coil >>>>>>> doesn't. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I recently upgraded my mobile phone to one that accepted inductive >>>>>>> charging after the charging socket on it's predecessor had worn out and >>>>>>> had to be replaced, >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> In rural environments, there is not enough range >>>>>>>> of the vehicles. Also the construction equipment >>>>>>>> is not anytime soon having a new fleet. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Not true. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Mostly there aren't enough extension cords or outlets. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Not a problem. there are already electric buses in service that get >>>>>>> recharged by parking on top of an induction buried in the road under the >>>>>>> last stop on their run. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Maybe it would just be easier to pull the motor >>>>>>>> and put in a hybrid drive-train. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> But that does emit CO2 in operation, if not as much as a regular >>>>>>> internal combustion engine. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> A true concept "super-capacitor" is the idea of a solid-state >>>>>>>> device, basically a monocrystalline block with a bunch of spikes >>>>>>>> in either side basically with a thin layer of thusly the >>>>>>>> dielectric material between them, quite a different concept >>>>>>>> than the usual idea of the electrochemical storage, that >>>>>>>> has at least near-instantaneous recharge and discharge, >>>>>>>> and arbitrarily long mean time between maintenance, error, >>>>>>>> failure, and replacement. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Nobody who has ever worked on capacitor energy storage would take that >>>>>>> seriously. The energy density on offer is utterly inadequate. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Anyways commercial offerings of gasoline producing >>>>>>>> machines that turn carbon dioxide and hydrogen monoxide >>>>>>>> into hydrocarbon fuels with electricity is already >>>>>>>> about the $7/gallon range. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> And they are hopelessly inefficient. >>>>>> >>>>>> It's a simple fact that the pure concept super-capacitor >>>>>> is completely simple its principle of operation and basically >>>>>> like pouring a giant chip for power purposes. The precision >>>>>> of the distances of the electrodes across the dielectric >>>>>> makes it a bit different than smearing paste across a film >>>>>> and rolling it up and putting it in a tube. >>>>> >>>>> The simplicity of the concept doesn't have much bearing on the reality >>>>> of trying to make it. >>>>> >>>>> Metallised film capacitors are made by evaporating metal to create metal >>>>> vapour which you let condense onto the surface of a plastic film - the >>>>> metal layer is about one atom thick. >>>> >>>> Certainly not. Metalizations are hundreds or thousands of atoms >>>> thick. >>>> >>>> The sheet resistivity of a single-atom film would be absurd. >>> >>> It would be practically infinite. Evaporation is directional, meaning >>> that every little hummock casts a shadow. To reliably get a continuous >>> coating on a polymer film, you need to (a) sputter it, so that >>> collisions with the background gas cause the metal to come in from all >>> directions; and (b) use a film thicker than the maximum surface texture. >>> >>> And then you have to not stretch the film afterward, or the metal will >>> crack and be flaky ever after. I spent an unpleasant couple of weeks in >>> 2000, trying to get my 96-pixel metallized PVDF (pyroelectric polymer) >>> image sensors to work reliably. Took an astounding amount of >>> fully-manual silver painting. >>> >>> The next batch used carbon-loaded ink, which would take a hard crease >>> without cracking. That was some kind of relief--slap 'em together and >>> they just worked. >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Phil Hobbs >> >> Are mirrors sputtered? >> >> I guess they are optically flat before they are aluminized. >> >> >> John Larkin >> Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center >> Lunatic Fringe Electronics >> > > > The idea here about making one of these supercapacitors, > the visual I get is like this one item from floral arrangement, > it's called a "frog", so basically what it is is like a bed of nails, > the idea is that with two frogs carefully aligned their pointy bits > pointing together and at a constant distance apart, then it's a > matter of skin effect and capacitance that it results a > capacitor, if also "condenser" is a different idea though > for many purposes not different. > > So, anyways the idea is just to make a UV-sensitive hardening > reaction to separate the conductor and dielectric, then just > make a UV hologram inside the uncured supercapacitor, then > in goes a liter of resin with the properties of UV-curing the > conductor spikes by the hologram's outline, then slowly run charge > through that to draw the remaining conductor from otherwise the > dielectric medium, then UV-cure the rest of it. > > Otherwise it's also just a usual account of stacked vias with > a very simple lithography (it's polka dots). > > Or a pair of florist's frogs in a frame, .... > > > For examples, .... > > Seems like that would be no improvement over a multilayer stack, and far harder to make. Cheers Phil Hobbs -- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
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