Supercapacitors
Supercapacitors — Terra Invicta technology. To power the weapons of tomorrow, we combine the power storage of a battery with the rapid charging and releas…
About Supercapacitors
Supercapacitors is a Terra Invicta technology in Materials with a research cost of 10,000.
To power the weapons of tomorrow, we combine the power storage of a battery with the rapid charging and release of a capacitor.
Unlike a chemical battery, an electrostatic capacitor charges almost instantly and does not readily wear out, but can only contain a minute quantity of energy. As our power needs snowball, we require a best-of-both-worlds solution: the capacity of a battery and the charging speed of a capacitor. The primary obstacle until now has been one of mass. A capacitor with storage to rival that of our largest batteries would require prohibitively enormous and heavy metal plates. It is our recent discoveries in the field of carbon manipulation that can resolve this. We can both reduce the width of the insulating barrier between the two conducting plates at a molecular level, therefore, reducing the supercapacitor's overall size, and we can coat the plates in new, porous nanomaterials that effectively increase the surface area without increasing the plate size. In short, rather than swell our capacitors to unworkable sizes, we instead increase their effectiveness at the atomic level. Several of these arranged in series will replicate the capacity of a battery, while retaining their lightning-fast storage and release of energy, which in turn will feed the vast power requirements of our next-generation weapons.