Researchers believe they’ve discovered a new material that could boost the performance of a carbon-based supercapacitor – sometimes called an ultracapacitor – a type of energy storage device that can be charged very quickly and offload its power very quickly, too.
New forms of energy storage will be critical to the success of renewable energy as a replacement for fossil fuels. When the sun doesn’t shine or the wind doesn’t blow, we’ll need to access stored energy very quickly to plug the gap.
Ulrik Grape, chief executive of NaWa technologies, a supercapacitor maker based in the South of France says, “We think the ability to charge and discharge a battery fast will be one of the most important things in the future.”
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