Accumulators: A concept for GURPS Spaceships

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Originally Posted by gruundehn

Neither batteries nor capacitors store EMF (voltage) they both store electrons. The only electrical or electronic device that stores EMF is an inductor (coil) which stores voltage in the magnetic field generated when current passes through the coil.

Batteries sort of store electrons, but they generate EMF.

(Though at sufficiently high current values it must be more complicated than that.)