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The World’s First Flow Battery in 1879
We introduced John Doyle’s remarkable invention in our previous post – see link below. There,…
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First Flow Battery By John Doyle
A flow battery comprises two different, dissolved chemical constituents stored in separate tanks. These liquids…
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Battery Carbon Footprints Becoming Critical
Carbon footprints mattered little to average consumer minds even twenty years ago. However, nowadays things…
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Prove the Principles of Electromagnetism
Did you visit a metal-recycling site, and watch them lifting scrap with a giant magnet?…
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Shift Towards Hybrid Supercapacitors
Our previous three posts reach the inescapable conclusion that neither batteries, nor capacitors meet our…
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Imperfect Personal Battery Storage Solution
This is a second article in a short series in which we compare batteries and…
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Let’s Compare Batteries and Capacitors
We can store energy in many different kinds of ways. We could do it, for…
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What Happens Inside a Leclanche Cell?
Okay, so you went on a school expedition where they showed you a Leclanche cell?…
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William Dubilier’s Mica Dielectric Capacitor
If storage batteries are at the heart of every portable electrical device, we are bound…
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George Mansbridge Metalized Paper Capacitor
George Mansbridge invented the metalized paper capacitor in 1900, and patented it in 1902. The…