What is the Difference between a Capacitor and Advanced Capacitors?
Tom, what is the difference between an advanced capacitors and a regular capacitor?
(A) The biggest difference in advanced capacitors and regular capacitors is available surface area. An advanced capacitor has much more surface area than a typical capacitor. Regular capacitors have some similarities in construction to advanced capacitors, whereas they both have foil-like plates, one positive and one negative. An advanced capacitors takes this a step further and has a thin film of carbon on the surface of the plates. This thin film is very porous and has a very high surface area allowing an advanced capacitors to store a lot more energy than a regular capacitor. Finally, typical capacitors have rated capacities in the micro-Farad range, while advanced capacitors have capacities in the 100s of Farads range. That’s on the order of at least a million times greater.
In summation, advanced capacitors hold more energy and are bigger. 
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Ferrum.Mihi on November 14th, 2008