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Mechatronics at University of Waterloo Get Ready for Their Symposium!
The 5 members of the Mechatronics team at the University of Waterloo have been making use…
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The Direction Batteries are Heading
The first rechargeable batteries in commercial use were lead acid-ones. Since then, there have been…
Battery Basics
Secrets of Sealed Lead Acid Batteries
It would be hard to imagine life without sealed lead acid storage batteries. In our…
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New Batteries to Take Us to the Stars
There are so many exciting comets, planets, dark matter, and far-flung galaxies for our robot…
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Corporate Battery Games that Tesla Plays
Elon Musk is pushing ahead with a massive lithium-ion battery program. He has to. Because…
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Gaston Planté’s Lead-Acid Cell Battery
Gaston Planté was a physicist born 22 April 1834 in Orthez, France near the Spanish…
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Batteries in the Heart of a Smart Flower
Off-grid domestic solar systems have tended to follow linear thinking. The earliest were UPS batteries…
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Batteries Are Part of the Indian Power Solution
India is set to overtake China in terms of population. Its economy is taking off…
Battery Technical
Is Urea the ‘Holy Grail’ of Batteries?
If there is a ‘holy grail’ of batteries among the ebb and flow of research…
Battery Basics
Types of Marine Batteries in Use Today
The most popular types of marine batteries use lead acid technology. There are three main…