The drive toward renewable-energy technologies,such as wind and solar,to help fight climate change puts a premium on ways to store and deliver power from these non-continuous energy sources.One intriguing piece in thi...The drive toward renewable-energy technologies,such as wind and solar,to help fight climate change puts a premium on ways to store and deliver power from these non-continuous energy sources.One intriguing piece in this power-management puzzle lies in supercapacitors-ultra-high-capacitance structures that can sop up,store and deliver significant amounts of charge,and that can withstand hundreds of thousands of charge-discharge cycles.But how can these closed devices be monitored in real time,to ensure that they are working at peak efficiency and to prevent potentially catastrophic failures in the renewable-power grid?展开更多
文摘The drive toward renewable-energy technologies,such as wind and solar,to help fight climate change puts a premium on ways to store and deliver power from these non-continuous energy sources.One intriguing piece in this power-management puzzle lies in supercapacitors-ultra-high-capacitance structures that can sop up,store and deliver significant amounts of charge,and that can withstand hundreds of thousands of charge-discharge cycles.But how can these closed devices be monitored in real time,to ensure that they are working at peak efficiency and to prevent potentially catastrophic failures in the renewable-power grid?
