Safety and end-of-life issues are topics addressed in John Miller's column.
What happens when an electrochemical capacitor is short-circuited? Are there safety issues? Will it explode? Will it be damaged, and will its life be shortened?
Thankfully electrochemical capacitors hold far, far less energy than batteries of the same size, and it is the amount of energy that sets the stage for the amount of work that can be done in any rapid discharge. And luckily, electrochemical capacitors cannot fall victim to the runaway processes that can occur in batteries. Electrochemical capacitors . . .
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