Appreciated Minty :)

Suicide Squad: Less interesting than discussing linguistics xD

Took me a few tries to understand.

It's not land banking. It's land investment. We're making the land better, more luscious, stronger.

Did mine last year. Took a little while to get results back, but it was really nice to see everything was OK in the yard and veggie patch. My garden has had lots of treated pine timberwork for decades (some CCA treatment type).

reap children

There have been constant news articles coming out over the past few years claiming the next big thing in supercapacitor and battery technologies. Very few actually turn out to work practically.

The most exciting things to happen in the last few years (from an average citizen's perspective) are the wider availability of sodium ion batteries (I believe some power tools ship with them now?), the continued testing of liquid flow batteries (endless trials starting with the claim that they might be more economic) and the reduction in costs of lithium-ion solid state batteries (probably due to the economics of electric car demand).

FWIW the distinction between capacitors and batteries gets blurred in the supercapacitor realm. Many of the items sold or researched are blends of chemical ("battery") and electrostatic ("capacitor") energy storage. The headline of this particular pushes the misconception that these concepts can't mix.

My university login no longer works so I can't get a copy of the paper itself :( But from the abstract it looks first stage, far from getting excited about:

This precise control over relaxation time holds promise for a wide array of applications and has the potential to accelerate the development of highly efficient energy storage systems.

"holds promise" and "has the potential" are not miscible with "May Be the Beginning of the End for Batteries".

I had to look this up, so I'll leave it here for others:

youth group = religious organisation trying to sign people up

(In my country if you look this term up on the web you get https://youth.gov.au . They probably wear thongs too)

"Thou has missed daily prayers for two whole weeks"

Workaround for fingers having the wrong count.

Other manufacturers of all manner of stainless products seem to have figured out a solution to the problem.

Two design choices together probably make the problem multiplicatively worse:

1. Flat panels are not anywhere as stiff as curved panels.
2. Mechanical parameters of the stainless alloy they're using (eg it might retain the coiled shape more than some other plain steel alloys).

I can't get over the flatness... those panels surely rattle too? Or do they void-fill the doors and body with something?

Very misleading title. This is not an energy efficient process (what we need for energy storage), instead it has a high chemical yield.