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Energy in a capacitor is (1/2)CV^2 - so 12x the voltage would be 144x the energy.



If they can keep C at the same value in a higher voltage version.


Yep. Trivially, one would expect the capacitance to decrease linearly with voltage.

There's also a question about current leakage.




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