Supercapacitors from Hemp Fiber Could Be Half the Cost
Hemp. Is there anything it can’t do? Hemp may not be able to save the world on its own, as some proponents claim, but it certainly can yield affordable and planet-friendly solutions for everything from building to clothing to food to paper products, and recent research suggests that it could also provide a low-cost material for high-tech energy storage. The future of energy storage, at least for mobile devices and electric vehicles, lies in the development of supercapacitors, which have…