Battery Basics
Flat Starter Batteries Disrupting Early Mornings
There can be few things quite as annoying, as flat starter batteries refusing to do…
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Electric Submarine Power Beneath the Ocean
The first submarine vessels used human effort to propel them across, and through the ocean.…
Battery Experiments
Easy AA Battery Spinner Experiment
Converting raw energy into spinning motion powers land, air and ocean transport. We need electric…
Battery Experiments
Homopolar Motor Using a Rare Earth Magnet
A homopolar electric motor uses direct current between two opposing magnetic poles. We build such…
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Electric Tram Style Charging for Trucks
It’s a funny old thing the way the world turns around and history repeats itself.…
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Geneva Motor Shows Battery Innovations
There have been Geneva Motor Shows every March since 1905. Over the past 114 years,…
Climate Change
Climate Change Part 4: The Motorwagen 1873
Karl Benz did not realize the damage his motor car invention would cause. Any more…
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Three Types of Energy Storage on Lifeboats
It is hard to believe mighty ocean liners once plied the seas without lifeboats, or…
Battery Experiments
Build an Electric Motor From Next to Nothing
An electric motor reduced to its essentials is a machine that turns energy into rotating…
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Flying Wind Turbines High Up In the Sky
There is sufficient wind energy, in theory to power our planet. That is, if the…