EEStar EEStor, a Texas company run by ex-IBM employees, is set to make a long awaited breakthrough in battery tech, claiming that it has a capacitor based battery which will up the range of an ...

Don't tell Palm or WildCharge, but analysts Strategy Analytics reckon that right now wireless charging is "pointless". In fact, according to the company's latest report, manufacturers of wireless ...

Your phone died. Again. In these scenarios, who among us has not dreamed the dream of a future where our devices charge instantly and last forever. As capacitors—or even more exciting, ultracapacitors ...

Before Lunar New Year, I had ordered two 3000 F, 2.7 V supercapacitors from China for about $4 each. I don’t actually remember why, but they arrived (unexpectedly) just before the holiday.

Penn State researchers have developed a new high-temperature polymer capacitor that can store four ...

Ohmic resistors are generally employed to limit the current when charging capacitors. This, however, is accompanied by technical risks. If, for example, the capacitor short circuits or the relay has a ...

There are many applications which require pulse power. The needed burst of energy is derived by rapidly discharging a previously charged capacitor. As the energy stored in a capacitor is equal to ...

Experts believe their dream of clean energy storage is a step closer after they unveiled their ground-breaking super-capacitor technology that is able to store and deliver electricity at high power ...