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Recent content by Nafensoriel

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    Ford and Purdue develop new EV charging cables

    Correct. In industrial applications, we are already seeing or have on order parts that are lab listed at 350Wh/kg range(will explain this later). Nanoramics is pretty much the cutting edge at the moment. Capacity 10 years ago was around 1Wh/kg. Today commercially available supercaps are...
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    Ford and Purdue develop new EV charging cables

    The only reason to do Grid>Cap>cap is to limit the investment needed in grid upgrades. Most fuel service times fall in very narrow bands of time. There is no point upgrading the grid if you can replace underground liquid tanks with underground supercaps that do essentially the exact same thing...
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    Ford and Purdue develop new EV charging cables

    Super(ultra)caps are around 5 times less energy-dense per kg right now. The maximum lab-tested supercap is 90ishWh/kg which is damn close to what LiFePO4 can do... and it was more in the realm of possibility than most Li-ions lab batts. The issue is while Li-ion can theoretically top out at...
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    Ford and Purdue develop new EV charging cables

    Whelp can't fix stupid :D I can be a stubborn old bastard and outlive their kale smoothy arses.
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    Far Cry 7 Is A Live Service Game Similar To Assassin's Creed Infinity - Report

    It ain't the next level Ubisoft is just being Ubisoft and typically a decade behind everyone else on stupid. "Live service" is on the way out because the consumer base has rabidly hated it. It has not yielded the returns expected for anyone whos tried it.
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    Ford and Purdue develop new EV charging cables

    Idiots think EV means cheap because power is cheap. Smart people think EV is cheap due to basically zero maintenance compared to ICE, especially for larger vehicles. While demand soars so can supply though. A handful of nuclear power plants pretty much erases the cost concern for "fuel"... and...
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    Ford and Purdue develop new EV charging cables

    Currently used cells are not capable of 5-minute charging. There are physical restrictions in play with their design. One of the worst is needing to be at 60c for optimal charging. There are cells that can be charged in 5 minutes in preproduction or in labs. Lab batts pretty much can do...
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    Ford and Purdue develop new EV charging cables

    I was more speaking about the most robust cable I personally have seen and had access to not being in the realm of handling 2500amps without failure. I personally have seen "pet projects" trying to do things like this with liquid gold inside carbon tubes. While that works the loss rate due to...
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    Ford and Purdue develop new EV charging cables

    It might be cheaper in the long term to leave the grid supply fixed and attempt a supercapacitor to supercapacitor solution. With capacitors, you can easily break apart the charge and discharge functions asymmetrically. IE run more standard grid wires to a location and simply connect them to...
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    Ford and Purdue develop new EV charging cables

    600v is far less common than you think. We are weird Canadians who like stupid things like efficiency and not caring about a little 10v drop. Hell in the USA it's mostly 480 and I know for an absolute fact that Argentina is 380v, Australia is 400v, and Egypt is 380v. Also since it just...
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    Ford and Purdue develop new EV charging cables

    Range is gonna be an issue for pure EV for a long long time unless someone pulls a rabbit out of their bum. While we have nearly tripled capacity in the last decade there are few low-hanging fruits remaining. The physics of storing energy efficiently for something that needs rediculous...
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    Ford and Purdue develop new EV charging cables

    We have 3 phase 600V here in Canada already. I actually prefer it in an industrial setting. Handling it isn't any different than 480V since they have the same insulation. Would I want the average idiot near it? Nope :D. /edit One of my coworkers saw the thread and looked this up. Now he's...
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    Ford and Purdue develop new EV charging cables

    Considering a 30kV power cable is what? 1000amp max for a daily load? The physics portion of my brain is going "NOPE NOPE NOPE" the first time I see one of these being used. Would love to see how they did this. Still terrifying though.
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    500TB in silica glass about the size of CD.

    People are misunderstanding what glass is. Glass is a type of ceramic. There are plenty of clear ceramics that function like glass and are optically superior or indistinguishable from window glass. Spinel or YAG come to mind. More expensive of course but if you need clarity and strength...
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    500TB in silica glass about the size of CD.

    "Glass" isn't always glass. In fact, most non-window "Glass" is actually ceramic. The thickness issues pre 1800s were mostly due to the fact that the manufacture of glass basically consisted of blowing air into a cylinder and then cutting it. Flat glass manufacture didn't happen in any form of...
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