Battery Basics
Imagine If There Were No Batteries Today
Batteries were the beginning of commercial electricity. Volta was the first person to make it…
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Tamper Resistant Smoke Alarms In Maryland
The State of Maryland will begin enforcing tamper resistant smoke alarms effective Monday October 1st,…
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Blood Batteries – The Congo and The Cobalt
The Congo has a long, cruel history that peaked in the colonial era. Joseph Conrad…
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Keep Your Fuel Out of Someone Else’s Fire
At first glance this may seem like an absurd request. After all, we would hardly…
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Scrap Metal Fire in Tacoma: Battery-Related
Recycling Today has been bottoming out on what caused the fire in a scrap metal…
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Demand for Lead-Acid Batteries Growing
ECN News reports demand for lead-acid batteries is healthy in a post titled ‘Lead-Acid Batteries…
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Back to Basics with Lithium-Ion Batteries
Batteries work by exchanging units of energy we call ions between their electrodes. When they…
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Ontario Kids Keep Batteries from Landfills
If we don’t recycle our batteries they end up in landfills. Cadmium, lead, mercury, nickel,…
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Battery Thieves Threaten Emergency Calls
Puyallup, Washington is a city of 37,000 people, 10 miles southeast of Tacoma and 35…
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Battery Disaster Planning & Emergency Tips
Hurricane Florence is likely to strike the east coast of the U.S. on Thursday. We…