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Ep 230: Space Science, Superconductors, Supercaps, and Central Air

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How to Make a Super Capacitor

I think we kind of overestimate how hard it is to make capacitors and super capacitors right like if you're thinking about the old school you know do it yourself capacitor. Mechanicus from 2016 I'll throw the link lint and dog hair super capacitor as one of my favorites. It's just a fine high surface area bunch of conductive carbon because he took a bunch of rolled up dog hair and burnt it soYeah both high tech and low tech so I pointed out that in the comments in the original MIT write up there's a quote from someone on the team that says this material can be used for more than energy storage.

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