Using capacitor to gracefully shutdown PC

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We all know pulling the plug on a running PC is bad, bc the operating system could be in a critical process and interrupting it would corrupt the system.

But using a capacitor that holds electric charge couldnt we give the PC a couple of „grace seconds“ where the pc finishes its job and then starts the shutdown process?

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This is literally what a PC controlled UPS system does. So, yes, we absolutely can. But, as others have pointed out: those things are big. They are also heavy and sort of expensive. And they only provide between 5 and 25 minutes of power, so…hopefully your PC can properly shut down in that amount of time (usually not an issue, but Murphy rules all)

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