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Frequent poster 890 posts Verne Niner Frequent poster 890 posts
Verne Niner

 

Read about it here : 
 
 
Bottom line: very cheap carbon capacitors that hold a surprising charge, and can even be flexible...you could have a battery in your t-shirt! 
 
For model trains, this may yield better options for keep-alive DCC technology than current capacitors, giving even our smallest critters bullet-proof performance. It may also lead to efficient batteries that would eliminate the need for track power, which is already being done by some pioneers in larger scales. Sounds good to me!

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robteed Frequent poster 865 posts
robteed

Link does not work

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Rob Teed

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UPWilly Prolific poster 1,965 posts
UPWilly

Reason for Link Failure

I believe the problem is that Verne left off the trailing "l" in the link. Here it is:

http://www.kcet.org/news/rewire/science/more-good-news-on-those-carbon-supercapacitors.html

 

Bill D.

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N Scale (1:160), not N Gauge. DC (analog), Stapleton PWM Throttle.

Proto-freelance Southwest U.S. 2nd half 20th Century.

Keep on trackin'
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lexon Prolific poster 1,211 posts
lexon

Stay alive

TCS seems to have a pretty good add-on right now. N and HO scale so far. Technology is continually evolving.

Rich
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Verne Niner Frequent poster 890 posts
Verne Niner

Link fixed

Sorry, link fixed.

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Bernd MRH Author 5,597 posts
Bernd

Carbon caps

And just to think I threw all my old carbon batteries away. I don't have to much faith in stuff that comes from the left coast. Solyndra  solar anyone.

Bernd

New York, Vermont & Northern Rwy. - Route of the Black Diamonds - NCSWIC
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Pelsea Prolific poster 2,398 posts
Pelsea

Really?

" I don't have to much faith in stuff that comes from the left coast." Intel? Apple? How about Shereline? A bit harsh, perhaps? The Solyndra debacle got more publicity than usual, but promising companies go belly up all of the time around here. It's just part of the ecosystem, like forest fires germinating redwood seeds. What happens is, after the suits screw a company up, the engineers go out and join thirty other shops and start a dozen new ones. That way the talent keeps mixing and exchanging ideas. Everything gets tried in a hundred versions and often the best ones win. And no one who admires railroads is in much of a position to complain about goverment subsidies. pqe
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AzBaja Prolific poster 2,048 posts
AzBaja

Nice to see some one think

Nice to see some one thinks good thoughts about were I have been working for the last 18 years. Have always called the east side of the Colorado river home. My co. has been here from well before 1980. Not just a fly by night operation and on the left coast from the late 60s

AzBaja
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robteed Frequent poster 865 posts
robteed

Back to the subject at hand

That is a pretty cool video. I did some more searching and found quite a lot of info on it. I have a lightscribe dvd burner so if I ever get some Graphene I might just try some experiments with it.

Rob Teed

Railyard Productions

http://www.youtube.com/user/dreambuilders48808?feature=mhee

http://www.modelrailroadtech.com

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