Battery Basics
Xbox Console Sets Recycling Truck Alight
The Auckland Council is hopping mad, but not about stray kiwis this time. A controller…
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Batteries from Tears of a Weeping Volcano
Batteries are all around us, but few wonder where they come from when they appear…
Climate Change
Batteries’ Dark Side in Electric Vehicles
As COP23 delegates shuttled between meetings in electric vehicles, it seemed we were at the…
Battery Technical
Tracking Electric Vehicle Batteries in China
China has an avowed policy of forcing electrical vehicle makers to manage the entire battery…
Battery Basics
Blood Batteries – The Congo and The Cobalt
The Congo has a long, cruel history that peaked in the colonial era. Joseph Conrad…
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Lithium Batteries Long and Winding Road
We’ve always just assumed that lithium ions somehow find their way between electrodes, and back…
Battery Basics
Scrap Metal Fire in Tacoma: Battery-Related
Recycling Today has been bottoming out on what caused the fire in a scrap metal…
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Will Lithium Battery Performance Improve Now?
Will lithium battery performance be any better in practice, now that Ulsan scientists have found…
Battery Basics
Back to Basics with Lithium-Ion Batteries
Batteries work by exchanging units of energy we call ions between their electrodes. When they…
Battery Technical
Would Lithium Batteries Survive Hurricanes?
Hurricane Florence set us wondering how a pack of lithium batteries would survive if deluged…