PowerBox - Graphite Polymer Energy Source

[Music] [Music] I started developing this product a year ago with the intent of creating a self-sustaining power supply one that doesn't require you to plug it in or charge it with any other device not wind solar hydro I put everything in this standard 19-inch rack mount box because I look at this as a building block much like the computer servers that have this form factor in data processing centers as a power producing building block you simply add more units in the rack until you achieve your goal now I'm gonna show you really quickly just a couple of things here and then I'm going to open the top and explain everything to you and show you how it works but right here you can see I've added a couple of USB ports to to this device now again I want to be right up front with you and let you know that this is a prototype these are not available for sale at least not yet so anyway I put these two USBs you just hit this little switch here and the LEDs light up let you know that it's powered up the red one here indicates that the the two USB ports are live and then you got phone or tablet or or whatever you want to use these for just plug it in and charge it up or if you got one of these cheap little USB testers you can you can plug other devices into it and see what kind of power it's demanding it tells you the volts tells you the amps and just plug anything in this is just a little light anyway that that's just a little gimme and it doesn't really need that because the most important thing we just remove this is in the backside now I haven't screwed the lid down so that's why everything looks a little bit loose here but there's a couple of binding posts here I've got it fused for 20 amps though the internal can go can deliver much more than that but I just want to keep it safe you just unscrew these and and put a standard cable battery type cable like this one here and just attach that to it and then attach these from one to the next in parallel series or whatever kind of output that you're looking for so that's that let's open it up okay I will give you just a quick overview on the simplest device there could be this thing really only consists of two parts these are graphite polymer cells they are in this black heat shrink this big industrial heat sink there's two blocks of these each each block and they set on top of each other each block is has 12 cells in it and they're all connected in parallel and then the block underneath same thing in parallel and then those two blocks are connected in series so it gives you a little higher voltage but plenty of current and this is a two point eight five Maxwell super cap or ultra cap this is this is a close-up on it these monsters are are pretty powerful spec sheet on this says that of course it will last for a million cycles of course there isn't a lithium battery on the planet that can do more than several thousand and I'll probably outlive me and most of the people watching this video but 3400 farad's in just this one three of these things in parallel you can have over 10,000 fare is pretty amazing the reason that the posts are so big is because they can also output 2,000 amps every time you cycle this thing for a million cycles suffle that's a spec sheet from Maxwell it says that if you short-circuit this thing it'll produce up to 10,000 amps so you know not trying to do product placement I'm just impressed with the product it's good company good products and so they make sense to me so I use them says here that it's 3.8 4 watt hours it's actually closer to 4 and I usually like to hold these this size up to about 2.9 maybe even to 0.95 3 volts is the maximum so and you do what you want so this is an electric a long-term electrochemical device okay and it's entire function a job in life is just to keep that cap charged now naturally it's not going to keep up with as fast as you could drain this thing you could drain it in a few seconds if you if you so desired of course you'd have to change the fuse I've only got a fuse for 20 amps so anyway man I did that for safety's sake too you can understand why now but anyway that's that's their whole job is just to keep that thing charged and so so this is the source of energy and this is the delivery point that's it just a and B done these over here are just extra parts the the two USB ports and some wire is the binding posts that you see back here I'll turn it to the side I'll turn it to this n view so you can see the cells and I'll go into greater detail on these cells how they're made here's an in view of the cells I know this kind of looks like a mess in here but it's nothing but reflection from the shiny black heat shrink so ignore that but anyway I don't know if you can see it very well because it's pretty dark in there but but there's 12 cells and in fact I can I can show you right here you can see where they separate okay these twelve cells on top are in parallel again and the twelve cells on the bottom are also in parallel and then they're connected in series right here and then here's the output that goes up to the cap the last part of this video that some of you have been waiting for begs the question what are these cells made of and now I'm going to explain to you what they're made of I told you that the cells were made a year ago and they've been sitting on the shelf until I could get back to this project at a really good year with the Q beta program and thanks to many here in the US and many abroad that have helped support that program and that helps us accelerate and go into these other parts as well as advance the systems that we have developed but the so a year ago before I made these cells I made these prototypes and here's one of the prototypes and that's if you can see this maybe I can zoom out a little bit and bring it closer let it focus okay so this is a graphite polymer cell and this is the graphite polymer plate on this side the active area is one inch by two inches and the the thickness of this in mil meters there you go you can see that the thickness is 0.4 millimeters so it's very very thin okay on this side this is the opposite side and this is the graphite alloy as you can see and this is this is just the contact terminal for the graphite polymer side here it's super flexible I mean this thing can be formed to just about I mean it's very very flexible I don't want to bend this one up because I I think flat is a more sensible storage than not then rolled but but when I first made this oh I'm sorry I did I didn't mention the electrolyte the electrolyte in between the part is so important is a polymer electrolyte it's a solid polymer electrolyte now you can see that it's got to be super super thin to work and and it does so it's it's both an electrolyte I shouldn't say more than I should say more than both it's an electrolyte it's an insulator it allows ion transfer it's it's pretty amazing it's my own proprietary mix but it has a curing time it cures out and when I first made the very first cell which this is the one this is the actual very first graphite polymer cell that I made it's wrapped up and tape clear tape just to hold these contacts in place on the graphite polymer side and and the the graphite alloy side so and you can see where I'm marked for negative and positive but when I first made this thing it it pretty much read 0 volts at 0 amps I mean it was less than micro amps so I immediately checked the thing in the trash bin and said okay that was a failed experiment try again later but I left on it that night came out the next day grabbed it out of the trash and thought hey wait a minute you know what sometimes these have to be compressed or deformed to actually you know when it's a solid to actually get it into a working condition so what I did is I took a broom handle is crude and you can see it's like this little perfect circle I just wrapped it around a broom handle and suddenly the thing just came alive and then it was like one and a half volts still is one and a half volts but low current probably I think this one's between fifty and a hundred micro amps so not a lot of current but decent voltage but anyway so so what was a failed experiment turned out to be very interesting ok so then I made this particular version kept it in the flat state now this one's a little bit larger than this other one in other words this one's 2 inches long and I think this one was only about one and a half inches long before it was curled so so I made this one and this one went through compression while it was in the curing stage and so right now this typically reads 1.8 volts but the interesting thing about it is that L at one point eight volts at about between 100 and 200 micrograms so still not a whole lot of current but you can see because at point four millimeters but the interesting thing about this one is that you can also charge this now the cells inside here are made up of 80% of the exact same thing as as this cell the other 20% is the fact that these are a heavier gauge material because if you want it to last for 2 or 3 decades it's got to be heavy enough weight so that you have the plenty of material that can be chewed up over time since it is an electrochemical device but it's very very long term device so that's that's one of the reasons and the other is it has a slightly different electrolyte then then this solid that's required for this very thin but this I here I see a lot of things although people were oh I got a new battery technology it's a graphite polymer oil this was a year ago no big deal here it is it works I can show you also here with this trusty old voltmeter your multimeter and show you that it does read whoops let's get this where it can be seen get my hands where they can work ok so there we are 1.78 it will it varies it goes up to between one point seven six and one point eight five depends on the warmth in the room mostly that because graphite products are very thermally reactive so it's it's interesting but it will work as cold but it works better when it's a little bit warm so that's just that but but I have this little this little transformer made by LG and it is it's a USB little USB transform let's see if we can get that camera to focus on that Oh cuz you're gonna be you're gonna be in trouble come on okay so it's five point one volts at 700 milliamps as you can see and they call it a travel adapter that's fine so I just put these little clips on the end so that I could connect it and let me plug this in what I do is it's convenient I've got power supplies but this is convenient I just keep it by my side and I like to test out some of these little cells just to see if they can or can't be charged in most cases they can't be because it's electrochemical device even though it is something that will last a long long time I still want to know you know is have I nailed the electrolyte is this a chargeable apparatus or not so we'll just put this on this is oops okay that's the oh I need to protect let's just do like this okay here we go okay let's just do it I'm just gonna touch it for three seconds how about that 1,001 1,002 1,003 now you saw that it was one point seven eight volts and in just three seconds it is 2.25 now if you keep that on there a little charger on there for say 30 seconds or a minute it'll hold that 2.2 or 2.0 for hours so this little thing can be charged up doesn't need to be but it can be that opens up a whole new door so that's really interesting and that's what these cells are - so - to recap real quickly I don't want this video sorry I don't want this video to be made too long actually I'm thinking maybe what I'll do is I'll have two separate boxes since this is just a prototype and I just want to test the charge/discharge cycles and things like that with this prototype but I'm thinking two boxes this is a 1u size and I can either use a to you or I could use two one use and one of the 1u size could be like this one and it could have seven of these inside of it it'll fit seven and that would be just under C 24 thousand farad's that's that's a lot of storage that's a lot of power if they're all connected in parallel and then the second one you rack box would be more cells and I probably would use something closer - well a little bit thicker than this point four millimeter cell but I can have seven stacks of cells that would each individually connect through a wiring harness and to the seven individual ultra cap or super caps like this in the other rack mailbox so it'd be a dual combination or to be one box but that one box would be kind of heavy so I thought maybe two separate boxes would be better and then you could build on that so it makes your building blocks even greater you could add more capacitors or or more cells or whatever you know to get up to the point where you want to be so that's kind of where I'm going and that's what this video is about and that's what these are made of and now you know thank you

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Keywords: Power Box, Energy Source, Graphite Polymer Battery, Rack Mounted Power Supply, Powerbox Graphite Polymer, free energy generator, new energy technology 2017, graphene battery

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Length: 16min 0sec (960 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 07 2017