Robert Clark writes:

On Oct 13, 11:15 pm, Craig Markwardt
wrote:
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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.
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OK, and given that it takes tens of thousands of times *more* energy
density than the ionization energy density in order to overcome the
Coulomb forces, how exactly do you plan on building your storage
device? It seems you've just proved my point.

CM