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Do I Need Batteries For My Solar?
We could purchase the electricity for our home from a local utility, or we could generate it ourselves. In the…
An Inside View Of Electric Cars
There’s so much hype doing the rounds lately, that it can be difficult to separate fact from fiction. We are…
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Korea Battery Factory Fire Update
We wrote about a tragic South Korea battery factory fire last year. This incident took the lives of 23 people,…
Battery Basics
How Batteries Rebound And Recover
We can crank and crank a stubborn internal combustion engine, until the lead-acid battery seems completely flat. Ah well, we…
Battery Technical
Denmark’s Molten Salt Battery
Denmark’s molten salt battery was commissioned earlier this year, in the seaport city of Esbjerg. It can store one gigawatt-hour of…
Battery Technical
Recycling PET Plastic With Spent Batteries
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic is made from terephthalic acid, and ethylene glycol. This material seems to be everywhere we go…