The brand new supercapacitor may very well be assembled from Martian supplies
NASA
When pushed into the smallest of cracks, water can be utilized in surprising methods. A brand new battery-like machine that depends on tiny quantities of water confined inside layers of clay may finally provide sustainable energy in locations as excessive as Mars.
Vasily Artemov on the Swiss Federal Institute of Know-how and his colleagues constructed the supercapacitor, a kind of battery-like vitality storage machine, with elements much like these of standard batteries, together with two electrodes, one with a unfavorable and one with a optimistic cost. However as an alternative of constructing these electrodes out of…
