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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RetiredNow who wrote (334411)	4/20/2007 9:27:01 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1576400

"Something to the effect that batteries and storage devices are nothing more than tightly controlled explosive devices." That is going to be true of anything with a high enough energy density. What matters is the failure modes that leads to explosions. For an ultra capacitor, there aren't all that many. During charging it is vulnerable. But that would take a lot of current, odds are the wires would melt first. Likewise, if the motors or the controller shorted it could happen. But the controller is likely to explode first. And with a lot less energy. Now an accident provides the biggest danger. If structural steel shorts across the terminals, that could lead to an explosion. But that is a design issue. Such possibilities can be designed around.