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Storing and Harvesting Electricity in the Air
Electricity pioneer Nikola Tesla imagined storing and harvesting electricity in the air, but he never…
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Large Battery Tanker Load of Electricity
It had to happen sooner, or later. We already have grid scale electricity, so why…
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Phenomenon Called Energy – Can We See It?
Energy is potential to do work, as for example an athlete preparing to beat a…
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Mandatory Solar Panels In French Car Parks
Some older folk among us may remember earlier days, when we regarded solar panels as…
Battery Basics
Energy in Batteries is Ability to Do Work
What use could energy in batteries be, unless we could convert it to something valuable…
Battery Technical
Grid Services Inverters and Storage Batteries
Electric power for communities traditionally comes from very large power stations, burning fossil fuels to…
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Abbé Nollet Shocks Humans with Capacitors
Electricity was a new science in the middle-eighteenth century. Nobody had experienced a bad electric…
Battery Basics
Very Simple Guide to Electrons
We use the word ‘electron’ casually when we say chemical energy in a battery sends…
Battery Experiments
Wonders of Physics Inside Plasma Balls
Plasma balls we find in toy stores, and on the web contain noble gases in…
Battery Basics
Benjamin Franklin Imagines a Battery
It is almost impossible to imagine a world without batteries. Although electricity has always been…