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Although our convention in physics class is
that capacitor plates are charged equal-opposite,
there is no reason they
can't be charged unequal-same. In fact, this is actually common in
electronics. We have many circuits in which the capacitor is storing energy
(has an electric field in its gap) yet both plates have positive voltage
with respect to earth ground, which would typically be taken to mean both
plates have net positive charge.