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Compressed Air Storage Past and Present
The world of batteries includes any mechanism for storing energy for future use. Our lead-acid…
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Alternating Between Types of Electric Current
There are two kinds of electric current invented – or should we say discovered –…
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Iron-Air Batteries on Watch List
Metal-air batteries have pure metal anodes, but use ambient air for their cathodes. Their electrolytes…
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Flow Battery Power Airship La France
News reports follow what’s hot in editors’ minds, and batteries were more the stuff of…
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An Introduction to the History of Capacitors
Capacitors are devices for storing electrostatic energy in an electric field. Whereas the batteries such…
Battery Basics
Camille Faure’s Coated Lead Sheet Battery
Camille Alphonse Faure was a French chemical engineer who improved the performance of early lead…
Battery Basics
Benjamin Franklin Imagines a Battery
It is almost impossible to imagine a world without batteries. Although electricity has always been…
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A Bréguet Electric Car Out of Necessity
Necessity some say, is the mother of invention. Certainly many great artists produce their finest…
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Early Hybrid Electric Cars In Context
The word ‘hybrid’ comes from the Latin word hybrida, meaning the offspring of a tame…
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First Hybrid Electric Lohner–Porsche Auto
Battery storage for electric automobiles was proceeding apace, as more manufacturers began making lead-acid cells.…