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A Battery That Falls Apart on Cue
Gaston Planté could hardly have imagined mass-recycling spent batteries, when he invented lead-acid chemistry back in 1859. Just getting the…
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There was a time when there were no power stations and utility grids. Therefore, if you needed electricity for an…
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Sulfur Selenium Battery Breakthrough at NASA
We were scrolling through Wikipedia when we stumbled over an orphan page with sketchy details about a sulfur selenium battery.…
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Spent EV Batteries Get New Purpose in U.S.
A July 21, 2023 post in Reuters alerted us to a clause in the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), of…
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Embraer Electric Air Taxi Could Fly By 2025
BBC World News and numerous other media announced plans to construct an ‘electric flying taxi factory’ near Sao Paulo, Brazil.…
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Two things may happen when we raise our purchasing standards. In the first instance, available supply reduces as ‘cowboy vendors’…