Battery Basics
Tamper Resistant Smoke Alarms In Maryland
The State of Maryland will begin enforcing tamper resistant smoke alarms effective Monday October 1st,…
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World Bank Commits $1 Billion for Battery Storage
On September 26, 2018, the World Bank committed $1 billion for a global green program…
Climate Change
Hurricanes Typhoons and Tropical Cyclones
We hear the words hurricanes typhoons and tropical cyclones used almost interchangeably sometimes. We felt…
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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Magic of Batteries Comes to Belle-Île-en-Mer
Belle-Île-en-Mer is a French island eight miles off the northwest coast of France. Jagged cliffs…
Battery Technical
Cobalt Demand Increases – Should We Worry
By now we know that cobalt is in short supply, because the source is rare…
Battery Basics
Keep Your Fuel Out of Someone Else’s Fire
At first glance this may seem like an absurd request. After all, we would hardly…
Climate Change
Winds Mysteriously Getting Stronger (Nat Geo)
National Geographic has been investigating why winds are becoming more powerful. They think the background…
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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…
Climate Change
Climate Change Extremes: The Antarctic
The west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula is one of the fastest warming parts of…