Climate Change
Harvesting Carbon Dioxide in a Battery
Oregon State University reports that the current rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide increase is ‘unprecedented’.…
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Battery Basics
Coulomb’s Law Still in Force at Oxford
There’s an old bell chiming at venerable Oxford University, England. It has been doing so…
Featured
Local Batteries Should Cause Less Emissions
Cutting over to renewable energy cannot alleviate global warming on its own. We would have…
Battery Basics
Power Chair Gel Batteries Safe, Rules IATA
A passenger boarded a Canadian intermediate flight in January 2024. He had his electric wheelchair…
Battery Basics
Thermal Runaway and Personal Safety
We spent our last two posts explaining the phenomenon of lithium-ion batteries overheating, and entering…
Battery Basics
Cigarette Batteries Burn Holes in Your Pocket
The batteries we use in our phones, watches and so on, release a flow of…
Battery Technical
Solid State Sulfide Electrolyte ‘Breakthrough’
Sulfide-based solid electrolytes are among the most promising alternatives for solid-state batteries according to Chemistry…
Battery Technical
An Iron Age of Batteries Could Be Here
It‘s quite strange how things often happen in repeating patterns of history. Three ages, copper,…
Battery Basics
How Could a Circular Battery Economy Work?
A circular economy in the mind of a philosopher could be an ideal world in…
Battery Technical
Second Life Auto Batteries Power a Home
Just imagine being able to power your home for a week, or more on used…