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Battery Carbon Footprints Becoming Critical
Carbon footprints mattered little to average consumer minds even twenty years ago. However, nowadays things…
I tripped over a shrinking bank balance and fell into the writing gig unintentionally. This was after I escaped the corporate world and searched in vain for ways to become rich on the internet by doing nothing. Despite the fact that writing is no recipe for wealth, I rather enjoy it. I will not deny I am obsessed with it when I have the time. I live in Margate on the Kwazulu-Natal south coast of South Africa. I work from home where I ponder on the future of the planet, and what lies beyond in the great hereafter. Sometimes I step out of my computer into the silent riverine forests, and empty golden beaches for which the area is renowned. Richard
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Carbon footprints mattered little to average consumer minds even twenty years ago. However, nowadays things…
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Did you visit a metal-recycling site, and watch them lifting scrap with a giant magnet?…
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Our previous three posts reach the inescapable conclusion that neither batteries, nor capacitors meet our…
Battery Basics
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Battery Basics
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If storage batteries are at the heart of every portable electrical device, we are bound…
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George Mansbridge invented the metalized paper capacitor in 1900, and patented it in 1902. The…
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Karol Franciszek Pollak was born in south-eastern Poland in 1859. He began working as an…
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Paper capacitors – you may also come across the term fixed capacitors – use paper…