Battery Basics
Lithium Battery Cabin Fire Sparks Response
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) standards classify lithium-ion batteries as ‘dangerous goods’ per an item in…
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A Few More Bites from Apple Battery Life
A replacement smartphone battery does not come cheap. Perhaps someday we’ll throw away the phone.…
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Cobalt Mining Still a Stain on Batteries
There are times when we need to step aside from battery science, and the benefits…
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Are Rechargeable Dual-Ion Batteries a Runner?
Dual-Ion batteries appear to be a sideshow in current battery research. Although the idea of…
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What Happens Inside Lithium-Ion Batteries
Did you ever wonder what happens inside lithium-ion batteries? We popped by U.S. Department of…
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Electrochemical Battery Storage and Research
In electricity, batteries are devices that store energy for future use. The ones we use…
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Alternating Between Types of Electric Current
There are two kinds of electric current invented – or should we say discovered –…
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Calculating Battery Milliampere Hours
An ampere hour is a unit of electric charge multiplied by the time it flows.…
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Shift Towards Hybrid Supercapacitors
Our previous three posts reach the inescapable conclusion that neither batteries, nor capacitors meet our…
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Imperfect Personal Battery Storage Solution
This is a second article in a short series in which we compare batteries and…