Tag: Batteries - Page 3
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Keep Rechargeable Batteries Longer with DIY Battery Reconditioner
One of the most annoying things about rechargeable batteries is their short lifespan -- the more you recharge them, the less charge they seem to hold. But a cool DIY project could help you save money and keep those AAs
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Gotwind Solar-Powered "Street Charger" A Smart Solution for Dead Batteries
Gotwind has a history of coming up with some clever ideas for renewable energy charger for cell phones, from wind power to solar power to human power. Now they've come up with a smart cart that can charge up to 20 phones at a time
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Burro Brings Sustainable Power to Ghana's Poor
In Ghana, where electricity reaches only about 16 percent of people outside major cities, residents rely heavily on batteries -- to power the flashlights, radios, and cell phones that allow
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One Tonne Life: Test Driving the Volvo C30 Electric Family Car (Interview)
Last month I was lucky enough to visit the One Tonne Life project in Stockholm to meet the Lindell family, who've embarked on a low carbon lifestyle experiment to radically reduce their carbon footprints from an average of
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Ferran Adrià 's elBulli Restaurant Aims for Zero Emissions with Architect Enric Ruiz-Geli's Smartgrid
Image credit: El País According to El País on sunday, celebraty chef Ferran Adrià is plotting a zero emission premises for his restaurant elBulli on the coast of Catalonia, Spain. The 2010 chef of the decade (nominated by The Restaurant magazine) closed
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Life Cycle Analysis Compares Footprint of Gas and Electric Passenger Cars
Electric cars are the darlings of the green technology futurists. But wait, cries a receding voice, "what about the environmental impact of all those batteries?" Until recently, that lurking uncertainty shadowed the
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Tobacco Virus Could Be Secret to Better Batteries (Video)
Image credit University of Maryland College Park One of the first known viruses, the Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), spelled disaster for tobacco crops, but it could be the secret to success for more efficient batteries and fuel cells, according to
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iPhone Skin is Really a Wind-Powered Charger
One of the few complaints about the iPhone is the short battery life. Most people need to charge their phones on a nearly daily basis. The possibility for a low battery while away from a power outlet is pretty
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Universal Cell Phone Charger Coming Soon...At Some Point...In the Maybe-Not-Distant Future...
A common complaint about cell phones is that there is no universal charger -- if you don't have the one that works specifically for your phone, well, you're just out of luck when your battery dies. It's
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Greenpeace Argentina Makes Procter & Gamble Take Charge For Tons Of Used Batteries
Some may argue that Greenpeace has its twisted ways, but sometimes they just nail it. In Argentina, last year there was a huge controversy over a used batteries recycling program by the Buenos Aires government:
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River-Powered Personal Charger Expands Energy Options for the Outdoorsy
When we see personal chargers, they're almost always based on absorbing energy from the sun. Once in a great while, we also hear of new personal wind-powered chargers. But we almost never hear about water-powered personal
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First U.S. Battery Recycling Facility in 20 Years Gets Green Light
It's the first air permit issued in almost 20 years for a new, fully-integrated battery recycling facility in the U.S., says Johnson Controls Inc. The company secured the permit from South Carolina environmental regulators. And
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Greener Graphene? Eco-Friendlier Mass Production Method Shows Promise
Graphene has been touted for the last few years as the next big thing in electronics. Potentially replacing copper and silicon in devices and promising to provide more energy efficient, faster charging batteries, the material
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Shape-Shifting Battery Smooshes To Fit Sizes AA-D
Images via Yanko Design Rechargeable batteries are a solution for keeping batteries out of the landfill, but you still have to have the right size for your device, which means buying more batteries. What if you could buy just a small handful of
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Cutting It Fine With Solar Razors
It's a perennial question that defies an easy answer: how do I make my shaving greener? Whilst the simplest solution may be simply to not -- let that hair grow -- some folk do like a smooth face, legs or
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Muzatch Solar Laptop Charger is Light Weight Option for Off-Grid Charging
There's a new solar laptop charger to add to the list of potential products for off grid charging. This one is super light weight, and foldable - always great features for traveling. It is capable of charging everything from a cell
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From the Forums: Where Car Batteries Go to Die
Radiohead is a bit worried about electric cars: My very naive question is "what happens to all the batteries when they wear out?" I am just picturing this huge mountain of used tires now being flanked by an
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New Charging Method Could Mean Exponentially Faster Battery Recharge Times
Chemists have figured out a new way to
