Battery Basics
Understanding Kilowatt-Hours in Practice
Kilowatt-hours are the measure of the electricity we consume, and mostly pay for unless we…
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What a Power Rating Tells Us
All day long, and throughout the night we have electricity working for us in so…
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Water Flow Analogy of Electricity
Electricity is our constant companion, yet as consumers we know little about it. This may…
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Portable Energy – Humankind’s Eternal Dream
In Southern Africa, descendants of hunter-gatherers still unlock the energy in dry wood by rubbing…
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Nano Engineering Capacitors as Batteries
That’s quite a mouthful so let’s start with a few definitions. Capacitors store electrical energy…
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The Power of the Ocean Draws Tantalizingly Closer
The power of the ocean is one of the three natural power resources, along with…
Wireless Power is No Longer SCI-FI
Wireless power transmission is actually commoner than we thought until we saw a video of…
New Microbattery Holds Twice the Power of Current Microbatteries
Scientists have created a microbattery that holds twice the energy in comparison to current…
Will New Technologies be able to Increase Solar Power Efficiency?
Despite recent progress to increase the efficiency of solar power, it still only accounts…
New Evidence of How Electrons Split
Electrons can be seen as small magnets that also carry a negative electrical charge.…