Public Service Warning - Graftech is Brookfield

This blog post is a public service warning to any companies in the space of graphene development: please AVOID doing business with GrafTech,

Graftech, International was recently swallowed in a hostile takeover by one of the biggest bullies in the global sphere -- Brookfield Asset Management Group, sometimes known as Brookfield Renewable -- a group of fat "investors" who also happen to be devoid of ethics... this group gets a kick by throwing around abuses of power.

Brookfield is AKA a few different names, publicly-traded companies trading under the tickers BAM or BEP -- incantations of a sleaze named Richard J Legault.

Brookfield quite literally stole shareholder equity with its most recent hostile takeover of graphene research firm GrafTech.  The hostile takeover was not done to further advancements in graphene research, to give an honest ROI to existing shareholders (the author of this blog being one), or to make the world a better place.  Any corporate slogans or company statements about business purposes are a sham.   Brookfield is a robber, plain and simple.

The takeover of GrafTech was done to steal equity and future ROI from existing owners, essentially removing it and all future benefit from the common good.  It was done to halt progress and arrest an industry that cannot thrive when it is being shepherded by Evil.  

Brookfield Asset Management and its subsidiaries have a little dance routine that's been been working pretty well for them for some time:  the routine siphons value directly from small-er companies and kills them (and in the process kills everyone who has invested in them).

With a mixture of takeover bonuses for the parent company (BAM), executive-only dividends, managed "trusts", REITs paid to those "managers" of BAM and intentionally complex financial instruments that leave existing company shareholders in the red, Brookfield is the bigger, meaner Bernie Madoff at global scale. 

Brookfield bears a pyramidal control structure, a design that U.S. regulators have frowned on since the 1930s. Simply stated, this type of structure lets a small group of shareholders exercise control of a business

And even the SEC can't keep up with them:  http://sirf-online.org/2013/03/11/disclosure-diligence/
 
Regulations, as much as hardcore right-wingers hate them, are needed. There is nothing protecting independent investors when their retirement savings are being yanked away from them. 

Help with this please.   Help write the SEC.  

Unfortunately, doing business with Graftech is doing business with Brookfield, and you DO NOT want to do that.



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Graphene Makes Quick-Charge Super Capacitors

The most annoying problem with re-chargeable electric batteries is that they can take a long time to charge.  From electronic devices to electric car batteries... nobody likes waiting for the juice to be re-filled.

But one of graphene's more interesting properties is its ability to conduct electrons in such a way that very few electrons are "lost" in the process of charging.   As I wrote about a while ago, its conductive properties are powerful.  Now imagine all that power being conducted mega-efficiently into a very strong capacitor.  Capacitors are essentially miniature silos of energy storage.  A "super" capacitor is a stronger capacitor¹, and a micro-supercapacitor is next.

"...Researchers at UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute have successfully combined two nanomaterials to create a new energy storage medium that combines the best qualities of batteries and supercapacitors.

The new hybrid supercapacitor stores large amounts of energy, recharges quickly and can last for more than 10,000 recharge cycles. The CNSI scientists also created a microsupercapacitor that is small enough to fit in wearable or implantable devices. Just one-fifth the thickness of a sheet of paper, it is capable of holding more than twice as much charge as a typical thin-film lithium battery.  

"The microsupercapacitor is a new evolving configuration, a very small rechargeable power source with a much higher capacity than previous lithium thin-film microbatteries," El-Kady said.

The new components combine laser-scribed graphene, or LSG—a material that can hold an electrical charge, is very conductive, and charges and recharges very quickly—with manganese dioxide, which is currently used in alkaline batteries because it holds a lot of charge and is cheap and plentiful. They can be fabricated without the need for extreme temperatures or the expensive "dry rooms" required to produce today's supercapacitors."   - Source:  Phys.org

1.  The difference between Capacitors and Super-capacitors:

• Super-capacitors have a very high energy density than normal capacitors.

• Super-capacitors use two layers of the dielectric material separated by a very thin insulator surface as the dielectric medium, whereas normal capacitors use only a single layer of dielectric material.

• Normal capacitors are much cheaper than the super-capacitors in general.

Source:  http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-capacitors-and-vs-supercapacitors/