Submitted on December 22nd, 2008 by Excoriator (not verified)
I got heaved off this board for jeering at the whole concept of this wondrous capacitor too.
EEstor is usually described as a 'secretive start-up' Well, secretive is right, but it's getting a bit long in the tooth for a start up now. This thing has been 'In the pipeline' for seven years or more, and so far, no prototype or demonstration has ever seen the light of day.
As well as the permittivity claim - generally considered to be nonsense - there are safety consideration with this sort of energy density. A short circuit would result in a very rapid discharge of all the energy - in other words an explosion! Charging in the minutes they claim involves hundreds of amps at 3,500 volts which implies major infrastructure work to supply it, as well as it being something you wouldn't want to let the public too near.
The site is full of non-technical folk, some of whom have invested a lot of money in this company or Zenn which seems dependant on it, and who spend their time writing "wouldn't it be wonderful" posts which are admired by the rest, or endlessly inventing good reasons why no prototype has ever been seen.
I too was invited to call 'B', but declined. Whether he is indeed Weir, I neither know nor care. Nor do I neither know nor care whether he is a rogue or a fool. The latest promise is that the device would appear in 2008, but there was some hint of a funding problem so this seems to have been put back yet again!
Harry potter's magic wand seems a lot more convincing than this, frankly.
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Submitted on December 22nd, 2008 by Excoriator (not verified)I got heaved off this board for jeering at the whole concept of this wondrous capacitor too.
EEstor is usually described as a 'secretive start-up' Well, secretive is right, but it's getting a bit long in the tooth for a start up now. This thing has been 'In the pipeline' for seven years or more, and so far, no prototype or demonstration has ever seen the light of day.
As well as the permittivity claim - generally considered to be nonsense - there are safety consideration with this sort of energy density. A short circuit would result in a very rapid discharge of all the energy - in other words an explosion! Charging in the minutes they claim involves hundreds of amps at 3,500 volts which implies major infrastructure work to supply it, as well as it being something you wouldn't want to let the public too near.
The site is full of non-technical folk, some of whom have invested a lot of money in this company or Zenn which seems dependant on it, and who spend their time writing "wouldn't it be wonderful" posts which are admired by the rest, or endlessly inventing good reasons why no prototype has ever been seen.
I too was invited to call 'B', but declined. Whether he is indeed Weir, I neither know nor care. Nor do I neither know nor care whether he is a rogue or a fool. The latest promise is that the device would appear in 2008, but there was some hint of a funding problem so this seems to have been put back yet again!
Harry potter's magic wand seems a lot more convincing than this, frankly.