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Super-High Pressures Used to Create Super Battery: 'Most CondensedForm of Energy Storage Outside of Nuclear Energy'
"Using super-high pressures similar to those found
deep in the Earth or on a giant planet, Washington State University researchers have created a compact, never- before-seen material capable of storing vast amounts of energy. "If you think about it, it is the most condensed form of energy storage outside of nuclear energy," says Choong- Shik Yoo, a WSU chemistry professor and lead author of results published in the journal Nature Chemistry. The research is basic science, but Yoo says it shows it is possible to store mechanical energy into the chemical energy of a material with such strong chemical bonds. Possible future applications include creating a new class of energetic materials or fuels, an energy storage device, super-oxidizing materials for destroying chemical and biological agents, and high-temperature superconductors." See: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0704162218.htm Is there potential here for a more powerful rocket fuel? How else could something like this benefit space travel? |
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Super-High Pressures Used to Create Super Battery: 'Most Condensed Form of Energy Storage Outside of Nuclear Energy'
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: Is there potential here for a more powerful rocket fuel? Mass production of super-compressed fuel would be extremely energy-intensive and generally challenging, to say the least. The reported results are interesting, but practical applications seem a very long ways off. We'll just have to give it a decade or three and see what happens. --Damon |
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Super-High Pressures Used to Create Super Battery: 'MostCondensed Form of Energy Storage Outside of Nuclear Energy'
On Jul 11, 1:53*pm, wrote:
"Using super-high pressures similar to those found deep in the Earth or on a giant planet, Washington State University researchers have created a compact, never- before-seen material capable of storing vast amounts of energy. "If you think about it, it is the most condensed form of energy storage outside of nuclear energy," says Choong- Shik Yoo, a WSU chemistry professor and lead author of results published in the journal Nature Chemistry. The research is basic science, but Yoo says it shows it is possible to store mechanical energy into the chemical energy of a material with such strong chemical bonds. Possible future applications include creating a new class of energetic materials or fuels, an energy storage device, super-oxidizing materials for destroying chemical and biological agents, and high-temperature superconductors." See: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0704162218.htm Is there potential here for a more powerful rocket fuel? How else could something like this benefit space travel? It's good to know that some research is headed us in the right direction. 130 kq/cm3 of High-Density Deuterium is also a good thing, as is the failsafe thorium reactor. A sub-critical thorium reactor: http://energy2050.se/uploads/files/rubbia2.pdf ~ BG |
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Super-High Pressures Used to Create Super Battery: 'Most CondensedForm of Energy Storage Outside of Nuclear Energy'
On 7/11/2010 1:40 PM, Damon Hill wrote:
Mass production of super-compressed fuel would be extremely energy-intensive and generally challenging, to say the least. The reported results are interesting, but practical applications seem a very long ways off. I know...Superballs that bounce higher than they fall each time, until they finally fly into space. Frisbees that pick the dog up and fly it around when they grab it in their mouths. Pat (now working for Wham-O) |
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Super-High Pressures Used to Create Super Battery: 'Most CondensedForm of Energy Storage Outside of Nuclear Energy'
Pat Flannery wrote:
I know...Superballs that bounce higher than they fall each time, until they finally fly into space. Frisbees that pick the dog up and fly it around when they grab it in their mouths. Pat (now working for Wham-O) What a load of Flubber... :-) Now if you could create a synthetic body fat that acted like flubber when exposed to Bee Gees music, now you have something you can take to market. Call it flabber... ;-) |
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Super-High Pressures Used to Create Super Battery: 'Most CondensedForm of Energy Storage Outside of Nuclear Energy'
On 7/11/2010 7:22 PM, David Spain wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote: I know...Superballs that bounce higher than they fall each time, until they finally fly into space. Frisbees that pick the dog up and fly it around when they grab it in their mouths. Pat (now working for Wham-O) What a load of Flubber... :-) Now if you could create a synthetic body fat that acted like flubber when exposed to Bee Gees music, now you have something you can take to market. Call it flabber... Just like Suzie Chapstick, I could be Patrick Flabbery. :-D |
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Super-High Pressures Used to Create Super Battery: 'Most CondensedForm of Energy Storage Outside of Nuclear Energy'
Pat Flannery wrote:
On 7/11/2010 7:22 PM, David Spain wrote: Pat Flannery wrote: I know...Superballs that bounce higher than they fall each time, until they finally fly into space. Frisbees that pick the dog up and fly it around when they grab it in their mouths. Pat (now working for Wham-O) What a load of Flubber... :-) Now if you could create a synthetic body fat that acted like flubber when exposed to Bee Gees music, now you have something you can take to market. Call it flabber... Just like Suzie Chapstick, I could be Patrick Flabbery. :-D Couple that with a diet of Coke, broccoli and beans and you would have the ultimate replacement for the MMU (manned maneuvering unit). Call it gas assisted flabber transit, or if you prefer, flabbergasted. ;-) C'mon everyone, admit it, you could see this coming... Dave |
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Super-High Pressures Used to Create Super Battery: 'Most Condensed Form of Energy Storage Outside of Nuclear Energy'
David Spain wrote in
: Pat Flannery wrote: On 7/11/2010 7:22 PM, David Spain wrote: Pat Flannery wrote: I know...Superballs that bounce higher than they fall each time, until they finally fly into space. Frisbees that pick the dog up and fly it around when they grab it in their mouths. Pat (now working for Wham-O) What a load of Flubber... :-) Now if you could create a synthetic body fat that acted like flubber when exposed to Bee Gees music, now you have something you can take to market. Call it flabber... Just like Suzie Chapstick, I could be Patrick Flabbery. :-D Couple that with a diet of Coke, broccoli and beans and you would have the ultimate replacement for the MMU (manned maneuvering unit). Call it gas assisted flabber transit, or if you prefer, flabbergasted. ;-) C'mon everyone, admit it, you could see this coming... If I didn't have hayfever, I coulda smelled it coming, from upwind. --Damon |
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Super-High Pressures Used to Create Super Battery: 'MostCondensed Form of Energy Storage Outside of Nuclear Energy'
On Jul 11, 6:53*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
One thing is for sure; if you could make quantities of this material cheaply there are bound to be a lot of uses for something like that. I presume the most obvious intended use would be, finally, practical batteries for an electric car that could be survivable on the same roads with the armored gas guzzlers. When lead-acid batteries would do just fine for electric cars if cars had to be built more lightly, and travel more slowly. Evidently, global warming is _not_ considered an urgent problem, despite what anyone says. John Savard |
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