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The Salton Sea and Lithium Valley Renewables
If a battery is a store of energy, then the Salton Sea and Lithium Valley are both excellent candidates for this…
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Watching a video on YouTube where a lithium-ion battery overheats and explodes in a laboratory is quite dramatic. There are…
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Heating Lithium Batteries: a 2-Edged Sword
Battery activity slows down at lower temperatures than humans are comfortable with. That’s because the ions move more slowly between…
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When Climate Change Affects Our Business
We have come through the hottest decade in our history, with 2019 touching 1ºC warmer than the 20th century average.…
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Using Entropy to Gauge Battery Health
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You Can Push Lithium Ions Too Far Per Rice University
Researchers at Rice University in Houston, Texas seemed well pleased with themselves on December 31, 2019. They told Design News…