The Future of Electricity Storage #
Having felt it was a kick, I decided it may as well be a full-blown trend. The Economist’s got a very interesting piece about the recent developments with capacititors, and suggests that the technology may even one day replace batteries are our storage medium of choice.
EEStor also envisages employing its devices to build an “energy bank” to store off-peak power and release it when demand is high. One use of such a bank, the firm suggests, could be the rapid charging of electric cars—which would, of course, also be fitted with capacitors.
That would remove a big obstacle to the adoption of electric vehicles in general—that it takes so long to refuel them. If a driver could pull into an electrical filling station and top up his capacitors as rapidly as he can now replenish his petrol tank it would both increase the effective range of all-electric vehicles and decrease resistance to buying them in the first place.