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Lead-Acid Battery Separator Low Down
Lead-acid batteries – almost all batteries in fact – comprise an anode, a cathode, a…
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History of Alkaline Batteries Goes a Way Back
Single cell, alkaline batteries first reached world markets in the late 1960’s. Their electrodes were…
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Forgotten Solar Panel World of Frank Shuman
The late 1800’s were a dirty, smoky world in the United States. Demand for energy…
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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…
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Camille Faure’s Coated Lead Sheet Battery
Camille Alphonse Faure was a French chemical engineer who improved the performance of early lead…
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Benjamin Franklin Imagines a Battery
It is almost impossible to imagine a world without batteries. Although electricity has always been…