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When it comes to portable power, lithium-ion batteries are where it’s at. Unsurprisingly, there’s a lot of work being done to better understand how to maximize battery life and usable …read more Continue reading Researchers Find “Inert” Components in Batteries Lead to Cell Self-Discharge
There’s no better way to introduce yourself than handing over a blinky PCB business card and challenging the recipient to a game of Connect Four. And if [Dennis Kaandorp] turns …read more Continue reading Blinky Business Card Plays Snake and Connect Four
Once a mine has been exhausted of its ore, there’s really no use for it anymore – it just becomes an abandoned hole in the ground. According to a new study, however, the shafts of such mines could serve in energy-storing gravity batteries.Continue Read… Continue reading Scientists propose turning abandoned mines into gravity batteries
Lithium-ion and lithium-polymer rechargeable batteries have given us previously impossible heights of electronics power and miniaturization, but there’s a downside they have brought along with them. When a battery pack …read more Continue reading Fool a Drone With a Fixed Battery
Despite the huge strides in computing power and functionality that have been achieved in the past few decades, there are still some things that older computers can do which are …read more Continue reading How To Restore a Musical Amiga
There are no weird, specialized components nor esoteric sleep mode tricks behind the long battery life of [Zak]’s WiFi mail slot watcher. Just some sensible design and clever focus on …read more Continue reading Snail Mail Notifier’s Simple Power Management To Maximize Battery Life
Turn the clock back a couple of decades, and the only time the average person would have given much thought to batteries was when the power would go out, and …read more Continue reading Battery Engineering Hack Chat Gets Charged Up
Next-generation batteries could take on many forms, but one design that scientists are pinning a lot of hope on involves the use of lithium metal. The excellent energy density of this material could see batteries power smartphones for days at a time, a… Continue reading Magnetically stirred electrolyte puts high-density batteries in the mix
Solid-state batteries, where the electrolyte consists of a solid material rather than a liquid one, hold massive potential for future energy storage applications, but have been plagued by stability issues that impact their longevity. A new design point… Continue reading Solid-state EV battery stays in shape to hint at huge range extensions
An international team of scientists eyeing next-generation energy storage solutions have demonstrated an eco-friendly and low-cost battery with some exciting potential. The group’s novel sodium-sulfur battery design offers a fourfold increase on energy… Continue reading Cheap sodium-sulfur battery boasts 4x the capacity of lithium-ion