On Oct 13, 11:15 pm, Craig Markwardt
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You seem to be missing the point. If it takes many thousand times as
much energy to separate the charges as it does to ionize them, then
you've built a 99.999% capacitor + 0.001% ion storage device. But
there are much safer and straightforward ways to build a capacitor, so
why bother with the ionization part at all?

CM


No capacitor or battery or any energy storage method short of
nuclear power offers anywhere near 154 billion joules per kilogram
energy storage.
See the list of energy densities he

Energy density in energy storage and in fuel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_..._an d_in_fuel

Bob Clark