ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 04:48:17 -0800 (PST), Dennis OConnor <ad4hk2004@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>Whilst doing a search on super capacitors (just a bit of self education on a
>device I know little about), I came across chat groupies on the topic who
>believe that super capacitors provide more energy than it takes to charge
>them... They are using a kludged up oscillator to take current out of the cap
>and then bootstrap charge the cap (much in the fashion of battery desulfaters)
>and claiming because of the temperature rise of the cap it's power production
>is over unity... They certainly are earnest, but I suspect that the
>physicists who developed super caps probably have a better understanding of
>what the caps can and cannot do, than they...
>But, they are earnest...
REPLY:
Junk science is everywhere, even occasionally on this reflector. :-)
73, Bill W6WRT
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