In reply to Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson's message of Fri, 18 Sep 2015 09:51:21 -0500: Hi,
True, note however that the box is larger than a cell phone. The energy density of supercaps is not as great as that of Li batteries. The short charging time comes at a cost. >From Robin > > > >> To me it looks they have just put a supercap in a box, with some >electronics. > > > >Yes, I would agree with you. In the demo you can see him plug the larger box >(the box that is still a prototype) into a wall outlet. 30 seconds later the >box appears to be fully charged whereas before it was completely discharged. > > > >It's not so revolutionary as compared to a really nice incremental step of >consumer convenience. That's not to be knocked. If the same kind of >technology could be internalized within the a typical cell phone... charging >it in 30 seconds... some might call that revolutionary. If true, I think the >technology would sell like hot cakes. ;-) Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
