Category: Green Electronics
Halocell – Australian Photovoltaics Just Got Better
Halocell and Photovoltaics Photovoltaics is quite a mouthful. But you already know them as Solar Panels and Solar Cells. But I deliberately went away from using those terms because of what it immediately conjures to mind. In practice, Photovoltaic = anything that takes Light (photons) and turns that into a Voltage. I was very pleased…
Glass Battery Improves Over Time
Glass Battery Construction A big issue with batteries is that they deteriorate. So loss of battery capacity over time is generally accepted. When there are claims that a battery can improve its capacity over time, there is a great deal of skepticism. The claims come from a laboratory that belongs to one of the most…
Hydrogen Fuel from Ammonia
Hydrogen Fuel Hydrogen Fuel has a lot of great positives. It has been used to he moon and to power spacecraft. But it does have an annoying problem. Hydrogen is the smallest atom and the H2 molecule is the smallest molecule. So it is hard to keep hold of. It leaks. A recent breakthrough…
Renewable Energy Cleans Up Coal
Renewable Energy On The Rise Renewable Energy is having a big impact all over the world. I was particularly pleased to hear that a new deal on energy prices in the USA offered solar electricity generation at $0.0199 per kWh and electric energy from storage batteries at $0.013. You can read the details for yourself…
Sodium Ion Batteries
Battery Technology Batteries have come a long way. There are still a lot of things we can do with existing technologies and this was covered in Making Batteries Better. Lithium Ion Battery The leading Rechargeable Battery Technology at present is the Lithium Ion Battery because of the high energy density and reduced weight compared…
Improving Power Distribution
Electrical Power Distribution Electricity is essential to the modern world. It is the power source behind the vast majority of modern appliances. And for large quantities of it, we are currently mostly burning things to produce heat to run generators to create AC power to transformers to high voltage power lines to more transformers, low…
Electric Vehicles: History
Electric Vehicles This is a post I started six years ago and decided not to publish. Since then things have changed a lot so here goes. The History of Electric Vehicles The Electric Vehicle has been around for a long time. The new push to Electric Vehicles is mostly being pushed by the belief…
Solar Charging Improvements
Powering Telemetry A big issue in the world of the Internet of Things, or IoT as it is abbreviated, is how to get power to remote devices. And this splits up into two separate but definitely related problems: the power source the power consumption Obviously, if the power consumption is high, the power source…
Light at Work
Putting Light to Work Light is a really interesting thing. It has so many different aspects. And it took us a long time to work out exactly how it functioned. And in many ways that is still an ongoing process. So this post is a brief survey of some recent advances in our understanding of…
LED Street Lighting
LED Street Lighting With concern for rising global emissions and the majority of the worlds power still generated by burning fuels of one kind of another, the replacement of older street lighting technologies with higher efficiency and longer life LED Street Lighting would appear to make sense. And on the up side, everyone agrees that…