11-22-2016, 12:08 PM
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I guess you are correct. 600lb times 4/3 would be about 800lbs to equal one gallon of gas. Puts it in perspective.
Here's a potential DIY electrical project: https://edgylabs.com/2016/11/17/vand...metal-battery/
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Faced with millions of tons of annual brass and steel waste, the Vanderbilt researchers began exploring different ways to best utilize those materials in order to develop a viable battery to store renewable energies.
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The team of mechanical engineers “Vanderbuilt” the first steel-brass battery capable of storing as much energy as a conventional lead-acid battery.
More than its comparable capacity for storage, the charge and discharge rates for the junkyard battery were equivalent to the those of the latest, most state-of-the-art supercapacitors.
The secret to these impressive specifications is anodization, or a chemical treatment that gives aluminum its sturdy, polished finish.
Scrap steel and brass were anodized using readily available, common household chemicals. Then, the anodized metals were given an electrical current. The researchers discovered that the metal surfaces were restructured into nano-sized networks of metal oxides that, when allowed to react with a liquid electrolyte, could store and release energy efficiently.
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