Battery Technical
The Radioisotope Batteries on Cassini Orbiter
We have been following spaceship Cassini as she loops through Saturn’s rings on her final…
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The Virtual Batteries in Our Bodies
Batteries, or portable powerhouses as we sometimes call them, stand in the way of progress.…
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Duke Energy Abandoned Nuclear for Batteries
When Duke Energy has something to say, the energy industry listens. It owns 58,200 megawatts…
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Role Plasma Plays in Nuclear Fusion
Nuclear fusion occurs when two atomic nuclei come close enough together to form a single,…
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Is Nuclear Fusion Energy’s Last Frontier
Fusion means joining things together to form a single entity, perhaps permanently, in the three-dimensional…
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Fuel Cells Are Game Changers, Toyota Says
We wrote a while ago regarding how fuel cells stack up against batteries. We concluded…
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Intelligent Batteries Responding to High Demand
Demand peaks are not a power utility’s best friend. Sometimes they occur in familiar patterns,…
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Large-Scale Solar Power Comes to Nowingi
Nowingi is an underpopulated area in northwest Victoria, Australia, some 500 miles away from Melbourne.…
Battery Technical
Grid Frequency and How Batteries Help
We wrote recently about how Sheffield University is using flywheels and batteries to balance grid…
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Batteries on Mars that Provide Power
Lithium-ion batteries will power electric motors when the rocket lifts off to take the first…