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New Breakthrough in Energy Storage – MIT Engineers Create Supercapacitor out of Ancient Materials (scitechdaily.com)

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New Breakthrough in Energy Storage – MIT Engineers Create Supercapacitor out of Ancient Materials::Constructed from cement, carbon black, and water, the device holds the potential to offer affordable and scalable energy storage for renewable energy sources. Two of humanity's most ubiquitous historical materials, cement and carbon black (which resembles very fine charcoal), may form the basis for

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I was worried about structural integrity, but they seem to address this. The self-assembling mechanism is a very cool discovery here!

Another interesting application for this as a structural material is that I'm not sure you'd need conduits? Like a block-house made mostly of this material, you could just put sockets directly into the concrete, and then hook the whole building up to the grid. I presume you'd need sturdy, well insulated walls to prevent accidents, haha.

Actually, would a box made of this (a parking garage say) act like a Faraday cage?

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