Storing Energy with This Method? - A Tech Article

[Stanley514]

Is a method described in this article may really allow to store some energy? http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ETList/message/848"

 

[Curl]

sounds like some dielectric material for use in capacitors - they're not batteries.

News media hype it up like always.

 

[Unrest]

That's nothing new. I used to have a glass battery. It was glass so you could see the level of the acid without taking the caps off :P

 

[Drakkith]

That's nothing new. I used to have a glass battery. It was glass so you could see the level of the acid without taking the caps off :P

I don't think this is quite like the one you had lol.

 

[Stanley514]

They mention this material have inherent positive charge (they call it positive sponge)
and they claim accidentally getting strays of current from it.They mention a material is ion depleted.They never refer to it as a capacitor and only as a ``battery`` and they claim energy density impossible to achieve for a capacitors.Do you have any ideas how ion deficient material could be used to store charge?For example I know there exist some ion defects such as Frenkel pairs which could store charge and recombine.Could it be used to store electric energy in principle?Or maybe they take positively charged crystal and allow electrons to be attracted to it from somewhere and in this way receive energy?