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Two Basic Lead-Acid Battery Designs
The first batteries were vertical piles of metal discs, with material between them soaked in fluid electrolyte. That liquid soon…
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Making a Simple Electroscope
Our experiment for today is making an electroscope. An electroscope is the measuring device used to detect the presence of electric…
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Thermal and Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass into Energy
Biomass can be converted to bioenergy through a thermal, thermochemical, or biochemical process. Bioenergy is renewable because its sources are abundant and…
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How to Make an Electric Microcontroller Patch
A microcontroller is a small computer on a single integrated circuit containing a processor core, memory and programmable input/output…
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Carbon Nanotubes: Replacing Silicon In Circuits
There seems to be an new semiconductor that will replace the more popular silicon. For the longest time, silicon had…