[Amps] Conservation of Energy!

Bill, W6WRT dezrat1242 at yahoo.com
Mon Dec 7 12:30:01 PST 2009


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On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 04:48:17 -0800 (PST), Dennis OConnor <ad4hk2004 at 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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