Patent ID: 7193839

Claim:
A method for storing electric energy, comprising the steps of: (a) providing an electrically-uncharged apparatus comprised of two conductive plates, also known as electrodes, where said conductive plates are each located in a separate chamber and where each said separate chamber containing each said conductive plate is filled with a multitude of conductive particles dispersed in a dispersing medium and where each said conductive particle is free to move in said dispersing medium in each said separate chamber for transferring electric charges to and from each said conductive plate in each said separate chamber as necessary, and where fully-contained said separate chambers are located adjacent to each other and separated from each other, both physically and electrically, by electrically non-conductive matter, then (b) establishing a uniform or non-uniform electric field between said conductive plates located in each said separate chamber, then (c) transferring positive or negative electric charges and energy from each said conductive plate in each said separate chamber to said multitude of conductive particles dispersed in said dispersing medium contained in each said separate chamber using a particle-to-particle charge-pumping procedure, thus (d) accumulating said positive or negative electric charges on the outside surface of each said conductive particle dispersed in said dispersing medium in each said separate chamber by using said particle-to-particle charge-pumping procedure until each said conductive particle in each said separate chamber is energized to the same positive or negative electric potential or voltage as said conductive plate located in same said separate chamber, then (e) preventing stored said energy from dissipating by stopping said stored positive or negative electric charges from escaping from said surfaces of said multitude of conductive particles and from each said conductive plate in each said separate chamber, whereby a large quantity of electric energy is stored on the immense amount of combined surface area of said multitude of said conductive particles dispersed in said dispersing medium in each said separate chamber by using said particle-to-particle charge-pumping procedure.