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Phenomenon Called Energy – Can We See It?
Energy is potential to do work, as for example an athlete preparing to beat a…
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Mandatory Solar Panels In French Car Parks
Some older folk among us may remember earlier days, when we regarded solar panels as…
Battery Basics
Energy in Batteries is Ability to Do Work
What use could energy in batteries be, unless we could convert it to something valuable…
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Grid Services Inverters and Storage Batteries
Electric power for communities traditionally comes from very large power stations, burning fossil fuels to…
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Abbé Nollet Shocks Humans with Capacitors
Electricity was a new science in the middle-eighteenth century. Nobody had experienced a bad electric…
Battery Basics
Very Simple Guide to Electrons
We use the word ‘electron’ casually when we say chemical energy in a battery sends…
Battery Experiments
Wonders of Physics Inside Plasma Balls
Plasma balls we find in toy stores, and on the web contain noble gases in…
Battery Basics
Benjamin Franklin Imagines a Battery
It is almost impossible to imagine a world without batteries. Although electricity has always been…
Battery Experiments
Are Materials Insulators or Conductors?
An insulator, in electricity is a material or covering that does not admit electrons to…
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Hydrogen Versus Batteries For Storing Power
Setting the commercial struggle aside, we have two ways for storing energy writes John Matthews…