Jan. 17, 2016 - Supercapacitor

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Jan

I can't wait for the day when graphene supercapacitors are able to power a quadcopter drone toaster that ejects toast onto your plate from a height of 15 feet.

jprime • 01/17/2016

Wolf's got nice bone structure.

calliff • 01/17/2016

lol... Wolf and I would get along really well...

Kage Wolf • 01/17/2016

ever heard of gloves Wolf? LOL!!

ndrvr • 01/17/2016

"Battery status: full"

"Wolfram Wolf: reloaded"

OmegaWolf • 01/17/2016

Legend of Zelda music for finding an item plays at start of panel

And that must be shocking to feel.

Interstate2011 • 01/17/2016

Simultaneously cool and dangerous; I saw as many of Wolf's bones as possible.

Drekhan • 01/17/2016

Oh my gods! The magical smoke! Looks like the graphine from Anno 2205 XD

Spazzmatt • 01/17/2016

When I read the first frame, I thoughts there was going to be a Fallout reference coming. (The box Wolf is reaching into)

MishaFox • 01/17/2016

he's indestructible! I like how he doesn't even seem to register pain!

Magic smoke :)

Vandal • 01/17/2016

I'm surprised that magic smoke was the only thing he let out.

Bruce Bergman • 01/17/2016

Doesn't have to be Graphene, a simple 2-Farad 15V for car stereos will raise your hair. And don't feed it 25V+ or it gets really exciting....

And especially don't stand in line with the ends. Tends to get ballistic.

Swift • 01/17/2016

can't wait for the day when graphene supercapacitors are able to power a quadcopter drone toaster that ejects toast onto your plate from a height of 15 feet. Jan, there are supecap batteries for smartphones :p Mosty available for employers and testers of producing company thouhg. My mate is one, so I saw Nexus with supercap batteries :P Also there are hybrid batteries whach are mix of supercap and accumulator..

provided that couple smartphone batteries is enough to lift quadcopter, I suppose the time you're waiting for is long past.. just samples are exclusive to Q's workshop

Jan • 01/17/2016

@Vandal Does an electric shock typically relax... certain muscle groups? :D In that case, we might need to test the air for sulfuric compounds, as well as manganese, lithium, iodine, phosphorus, and molybdenum.

Jan • 01/17/2016

@Swift ... but can they power a 1500-watt toaster? And make toast? I want one XD

Sonic Wolfe • 01/17/2016

I still remember once I got shocked by an old analog camera flash light... it only had 4 1.5V batteries but I forgot the it has a capacitor. Instant regret when I attempted to get the batteries out...

Kangaar Foxfire • 01/17/2016

Wolfram Wolf, super-genius... 9_9

If I recall correctly the definition of "Magic Smoke", it's emitted at the moment when an IC component ceases to be operational. Wolf doesn't appear to have lost any function that I can see... (assuming he had all of his faculties to begin with :). )

choo choo george • 01/17/2016

Hell no I don't glow!! Old nuke power plant saying. As for wolf, he just invented a portable X-Ray machine without using Gamma ray emissions. I love the way his nose stays dark while the rest of him glows. I once was very shocked and really awakened when I was working on a AM, FM, short wave radio, working on adjusting (or trying to) the tuner). One of my fingers touched a 1,000 micro capacitor, needless to say, I stood up so fast I don't even remember having to think about it, and my standing up so fast sent the chair I was sitting in scooting across the kitchen floor almost out the window. My mom at the time came in to ask what happened, I just said, oh nothing, I just stood up quickly yeah right. Electricity can be so much fun.

KyleTheFrenetic • 01/17/2016

Wow. Wolf is a rather resilient fellow, isn't he? Perhaps he might make useful (though less entertaining) contributions to scientific knowledge if he studied his own biology, and discovered the gene or whatever it is that enables him to survive this stuff.

Kenetic energy doesn't do it, extreme temperature changes don't do it, and now he's tried zapping himself... If Wolf becomes a brilliant mad supervillain, the world is truly doomed...

Darkpaw • 01/17/2016

Lol this reminds me of high school. One of our physics teachers also taught and electronics class from the same lab. So there was always tons of part finished electronics projects laying around. To deter the first years from poking around and maybe damaging some other students work, he would for the first couple of weeks of the year, leave charged capacitors on the desks in the lab. Certainly made sure the first years would not be curious about other items laying around. :)

Golux • 01/17/2016

Wow, wish I had that type of shock resistance. All my high voltage safety training told us to never bridge any voltage source with our arms. Certain procedures advised keeping one hand in your back pocket so the current would hopefully travel down the side of your body before earthing out your boots if you messed up and voltage was present in what you touched. Capacitors were to be treated with the same respect as explosives until they'd been discharged.

Silverwolf • 01/17/2016

@Jan: Depends on where the jolt enters, where it leaves, the nature of the current (AC or DC), and the like. Delivered right, 200J of biphasic energy can reset a heart back into a normal sinus rhythm.

I remember playing around with this kind of stuff when I was in 7th grade...I built my first power supply. 120VAC to 5VDC. Unfortunately I didn't see that the big capacitor near the rectifier was polar...the thing blew up like a blimp. Back to Radio Shack...

@Choo choo george: I don't think that's his nose. I think that's the nasal foramen on his skull.

LarryTheLion • 01/17/2016

He's lucky the capacitor didn't exploded. If normal capacitors explosions are spectacular, I wouldn't want to see an explosion of that kind.

Nina • 01/17/2016

I've been there too often. DC is the safe stuff. what hurts is 220v AC. also leaves a LOT of carbon charring...dont ask.. on the plus side, my multi-meter survived the blast.

choo choo george • 01/17/2016

Silverwolf, OK, don't know too much about wolf anatomy, but do know about electricity, just enough to be dangerous. Another time I was replacing a wall socket at home and I was too lazy to go out in the garage and turn the breaker off. I could just take each wire and carefully remove it from the old socket and that worked well, put in the new socket and connected one side then connected the other side, unfortunately the screwdriver slipped off the screw (hate single slot screws) and contacted the metal box. Needless to say produced a short and exciting spark display while mom was watching me work, I just looked at her and smiled and she said nothing, just looked at me, funny how you can read a person's mind and imagine what they're thinking.

Blinkey • 01/17/2016

Quick, Wolf! Grab the smoke and put it back inside yourself or you won't work properly any more.

Pretty sure that's how electronics works.

Bayrain • 01/17/2016

Completely undeterred

drivernjax • 01/17/2016

Jan, electric shocks don't relax certain muscles. It's the removal of said electric shock. That's why someone receiving a shock doesn't fall down. It's when the electricity is stopped that they fall down AND those certain muscles relax.

Perfesser_Bear • 01/17/2016

Well, he's already been - discharged - from his assignment...

I remember reading George O. Smith's “Venus Equilateral” series of Science Fiction stories when I was MUCH younger (most of them were published during WWII). They mostly took place at a communications station at a Lagrange Point in Venus' orbit. One of the Maguffins in the stories was the multi-farad capacitor, which in the 1940s was pretty much a physical impossibility. Today, 1-farad caps are common; one probably keeps the clock in your desktop computer going while the cord is unplugged.

Kael Duranus • 01/18/2016

@Jan; Electrical current makes muscles clench actually, which is why TASERs do what they do.

Jan • 01/18/2016

@Antarian_knight Of course. That comment was in jest ^^

@LarryTheLion I remember a capacitor exploded in my computer's power supply while I was using it. Whee, hydrogen gas. (This was during the height of the "capacitor plague" about 10 years ago.)

Kangaar Foxfire • 01/18/2016

@Blinkey, exactly! :)

Vanbael • 01/18/2016

when you emit magic smoke, you know its a good capacitor

WB101 • 01/18/2016

Oh no! Wolf is making an Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator...

Errr... Magic smoke? So Wolf is some kind of genie? I thought he was part coyote... ;)

Way back when I was a young pup, I vaguely recall getting my hands on a pair of those long barbers scissors. There was this unheard of thing on the wall (later discovered to be an electrical outlet), and I wondered what would happen if tab scissors was applied to slot unknown. I distinctly recall the most beautiful blue light I've ever seen running across the top of the scissors, over my hand, and across the top of my arm to the elbow... don't remember anything of the event after that. O_o
Ummm... Actually that blue light was a cross between Wolf's blue aura in panel 4 and that bright blue flame that natural gas gives off... just much brighter.

Silverwolf • 01/18/2016

Say, did anyone else hear the Legend of Zelda "Da da da daaaaaaaaaa" when Wolf picked up that item in panel 2?

MattFalls • 01/19/2016

Is it odd for a thirteen-year-old to read and understand every joke in this comic?

Interstate2011 • 01/19/2016

What's this "cath-" word Wolf was going to say?

Silverdadragon • 01/20/2016

@Silverwolf sadly yes that's exactly what happened XD

Hvitrvarg • 01/21/2016

@ interstate2011 he was going to say cathode, which is the other tab on the cap.

I wonder if Wolf is some kin to me, I remember doing alot of these things when I was younger, even to shocking myself good with a capacitor.

Blinkey • 01/21/2016

@Interstate2011 cathode

LarryTheLion • 01/31/2016

@Jan: That's why i like to keep myself in the digital world :-p

Dreit • 04/13/2016

Magic smoke...wait o.o What if everything that goes after this comic strip is just a dream, during other guys are trying to bring him back to life? O.O

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