RE: Dead Electrical Dudes No. 2

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Original poster: Ian Macky <ian.macky-at-oracle-dot-com> 

 > ... Some day all electrical power will come from DC distributed systems
 > using a new economical battery storage.

battery tech is what's keeping us back, agreed.  a revolution here would
be revolutionary indeed.  i'm thinking: self-assembling fractal
nano-capacitor.  you heard it here first.

pour a measured bunch of conducting nano dust into a container (so many
Tbsp/F), purge with gas dielectric and seal.  apply efield (proportional
to desired max dV etc) to two starting terminals.   motes wake up and
run program:

self-assemble starting at terminals into paired maximum-surface-area
fractal "plates" (alas, impossible to mfg otherwise).  et voilą!

need a *big* capacitor?  build a *big* box/cave/whatever, pour in
dumptrucks of nanos, apply power and let them sort it out.  fractal
shapes are similar at all scales, so scale up indefinitely...  *in
theory*.  in practice, likely limited by gravity.

in microgravity, unlimited!

--ian