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    Supercapacitors vs batteries. Capacity.

    Ha! When I mentioned this stuff to a journalist friend of mine. His immediate response was to predict that anti-renewables types would try to use it to tar the whole industry with the same brush. So I'd like to note a couple of things: 1. You can see exactly what they are giving money to, and...
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    Supercapacitors vs batteries. Capacity.

    I know I've only made 2 posts to this forum and you've made a zillion. And I don't know anything about you except the posts I've read in this thread. And your handle "live for physics" makes you sound like my kinda guy. But if you insist that anything that has capacitance is a capacitor, then...
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    Supercapacitors vs batteries. Capacity.

    I totally agree. But that is complete bollocks. :lol: Sure, every battery has some capacitance. So what? Merely having capacitance (super or not) doesn't make something a capacitor. Every battery has some resistance too. Is it therefore technically correct to call a battery a resistor? Of...
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