Battery Basics
Power Bank Diverts EasyJet Flight
There’s more to the convention that airline passengers should keep any lithium-ion batteries with them.…
I have been writing about batteries and energy storage for more than ten years, and have published over 4,000 articles on this website. During that time, I have researched developments across lead-acid, lithium-ion, sodium-ion, flow batteries, and emerging energy-storage technologies. My goal is to explain complex battery concepts in clear, practical language that anyone can understand. My writing career began unexpectedly after leaving the corporate world. What started as a search for a new direction gradually became a fascination with batteries, renewable energy, and the science that powers modern life. Writing may not have made me wealthy, but it has given me the opportunity to explore an industry that continues to evolve in remarkable ways.
Battery Basics
There’s more to the convention that airline passengers should keep any lithium-ion batteries with them.…
New Battery Research
Researchers at Chinese Institute of Metal Research have developed a 6,000-cycle, all-iron flow battery that…
New Battery Research
A half-cell battery is a virtual test bench, enabling researchers to trial one electrode at…
Battery Technical
It’s not entirely correct to say that scooter batteries spontaneously ignite, although they may create…
Renewable Power Sources
The United Kingdom’s National Energy Operator (NESO), has made a dramatic announcement as the UK…
Renewable Power Sources
Imagine having a truly compostable tree pulp battery, you could throw on the compost heap…
Renewable Power Sources
Spatiotemporal thermal energy storage, enables us to store energy in ways that work across space…
Battery Technical
Improvements in technology are delivering faster, more efficient, and higher-voltage battery charging systems. But fast…
Battery Technical
That headline rocked us back when we spotted it. What were we to make of…
Battery Basics
We like to refer to the two temperature scales for batteries in our blog, because we…