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by woodandsteel 2142 days ago
Question: why is this called a supercapacitor, rather than just a standard one?
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They have about 4-8 orders of magnitude more capacitance per unit area than film or typical electrolytic capacitors.
I assume because the article gets more clicks that way, but if there's a deeper explanation I'd be happy to be corrected.