Ultracapacitors
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Ultracapacitors
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 Research Cost: 40000
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| The graphene-based successor to supercapacitors can store and release a mammoth amount of energy at incredible speeds. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Following the successful development of supercapacitors, the next step is perhaps inevitable - for electrostatic capacitors to entirely replace traditional, chemical batteries as our primary means of energy storage and delivery. We turn now to graphene for the nanomaterials from which to construct next-generation ultracapacitors. Often called a "wonder material," this carbon allotrope is the most durable substance known to man; and also only a single atom thick, which means we can apply a vast amount of it as nanopores upon a conductive plate without meaningfully increasing the capacitor's dimensions. Graphene's remarkable electrical properties are also far beyond that of carbon nanotubes. Ultracapacitors based around graphene electrodes would, therefore, be far more efficient as well as more lightweight - and thus are exactly what is required to store and release huge amounts of fusion energy, and to charge our most powerful lasers. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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3750 | Total | 119250 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Phased-Array Lasers • Terawatt Fusion Reactors • Proton-Proton Fusion | (100%)Advanced Coilgun Batteries • (100%)Improved Plasma Batteries • (100%)Improved Plasma Cannon • (50%)Advanced Laser Engine • (100%)Advanced Coil Cannon • (100%)Soletta | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| "The human brain can store the equivalent of 2.5 petabytes of information - or enough to record three million hours of TV. But what if we became able to watch those shows at a thousand times the speed? Then our brains would seem like a mere floppy disk." Chancellor Li Qingzhao, The Academy "Engineering Humanity" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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