CAPTURE CAPACITOR™

The capture capacitor was diagrammatically detailed in my early radiant energy research manual version 3.0.0 information release. Calvin Bahlmann is now utilizing a low power version... http://www.nuenergy.org/PowerWheel.htm

It is well known that if two dissimilar metals are immersed in water and are in proximity to each other they will generate a voltage potential. However, the couple will only produce a minute galvanic current. This is due to the high electrical resistance of water. The capture capacitor is constructed in a manner that high efficiency energy capture can result.

1. High-energy capture capacitor cells require that their dissimilar metals have maximized surface areas. This provides the benefit of reducing bulk and cell weight.
2. An alloy for the positive electrode (anode) is optimally chosen to yield the highest voltage potential to achieve maximum efficiency.
3. The negative plate (cathode) is a stainless steel finely woven mesh that is treated with finely divided graphite. This plate is optimally designed to withstand corrosion. Graphite-carbon is chosen to achieve maximum current density.
4. The advantage that the capture capacitor has over the typical electrochemical cell is that it does not require a corrosive electrolyte and it does not require a depolarizer. No wasteful amounts of hydrogen are generated from the capture capacitor effect because the wasteful hydroxides are not produced. These aspects make it an extremely efficient compact source of energy, which is also environmentally friendly.
5. Another big advantage of the capture capacitor is that if it is put into the configuration of a fuel cell it can also be used to store energy. Bulky lead-acid batteries that are toxic to the environment could be replaced.

Here is something to ponder... according to our research: all of the elements will decay into energy. It is transformed from condensed energy (matter) into uncondensed matter (energy). All the elements around us are decaying and are slowly being transformed into pure electrical particles. "We live in a sea of energy, energy is all around us." T. H. Moray

CaptureCapacitor™
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Operating Principles

The capture capacitor has more than twenty times the capacitance density of conventional capacitors, essentially unlimited cycle life, and stable operating performance. Unlike many batteries, the capture capacitor can be safely and reliably operated throughout the -55° to +85°C temperature range. The high capacitance of the capture capacitor results from an electrostatic charge stored at the interface between activated carbon and an aqueous electrolyte in the so-called electric double layer. Since ions are physically stored rather than through chemical reactions, extremely long cycle life results. Capture capacitors do not dry up like electrolytic capacitors, exhibit no discharge memory effect like NiCad batteries and can be charged and discharged indefinitely.

The high volumetric efficiency of the capture capacitor is derived first from the use of high surface-area carbon electrode material. It has an effective plate "surface area" of over 2000m2. Secondly, its plate separation is extremely small, on the order of 10 angstroms. The naturally occurring diffuse double layer, created at the interface between the carbon and a liquid electrolyte when a voltage is applied, establishes this remarkably thin dielectric layer. Capacitance densities in excess of 30 Farads per gram of carbon is easily realized.

High power capture capacitors are designed similar to electrolytic capacitors. However, capture capacitors use high surface area carbon for accumulation of charge as opposed to the low surface area foils in electrolytic capacitors. An electric double layer is formed at the interface of the solid carbon electrode and liquid electrolyte. Aerogel capture capacitors use aerogel carbon as the active material, while the rest of the industry typically uses activated carbon. Aerogel carbon is known for its high level of purity, high usable surface area and high electrical conductivity.

Nu Energy Power Capture

Naturally generated radiant energy presents itself in the form of very short bursts of high energy. Conventional electro-chemical batteries have too high of a resistance and will damp out the energy that it receives. Radiant energy will not charge a battery for this reason.

The capture capacitor is ideal for the capture and storage of radiant energy because it offers minimum resistance to accumulation of charge that originates from natural spikes of radiant energy. Typically, capture capacitors are up to 25 times more dense than conventional capacitors. Their cycle life is estimated to be greater than 100,000 and they are expected to operate for around 25 years.

By paralleling a low impedance, high power aerogel capacitor and a high impedance, high energy rechargable battery, the result is a low impedance, high power and high energy battery pack, known as a hybrid battery-capacitor. The Industry reports that an electrical load can be powered up to three times longer by paralleling a capture capacitor with the source battery.

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