[geeks] Super/ultra capacitors for energy storage
    Mouse 
    mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG
       
    Wed Oct 26 21:45:38 CDT 2011
    
    
  
>> [Supercaps] also have insanely high charge/discharge *rates*.
> Yes, but current LiIon / LiFePO4 batteries can be charged at 4C or
> 5C.  (I.e. you can do a full charge in 15 minutes.)
I wouldn't call that "insanely high".  Charge in 15 seconds, maybe,
depending on capacitance.
"Insanely high" discharge rate, to me, means the kind of thing you'd
bank many of in parallel to drive a railgun.
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