Rensselaer powers up plans for energy-storing capacitor

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New project aims to harness nanotechnology to develop large scale energy storage system

The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has become the latest organisation to join the race to develop a capacitor-based energy storage technology, embarking on a $2m project to build large-scale capacitors...

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