Comment on Ideas for storing electrons or light in a container
Misspelledusernme@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The electrons can not be stored stationary floating in the vacuum of the bottle. They will immediately attach to the internal surface. The entire bottle is now negatively charged and will either accumulate positive charge on the external surface until it is electrically neutral. Now you have a funny looking capacitor with extra steps.
The closest thing in existence are the magnetic bottles used for different fusion reactor designs and particle accelerators. In these, the charged particles are kept moving in a closed loop contained by electromagnets that contiously adjust to keep the system pseudo-stable. These certainly cant store energy.
Logic_And_Ethics@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If they do attach to the inner wall to accumulate then perhaps there can be more electrons that cannot easily attach due to the inner wall already having accumulated electrons. Which also due to the inner wall having a negative charge can perhaps repel each electron as well.
Also perhaps a material that can repel magnetism maybe like a diamagnetic material maybe like a superconductor or something else like pyrolytic graphite or bismuth can repel each electron’s electromagnetism in turn repelling each electron. This maybe can prevent each electron from colliding with the inner wall.