Batteries

Ancient Inventions - Describes the history and operation of the Baghdad Battery - (about 250 Before Common Era).
www.unmuseum.org/bbattery.htm

Battery Education - discusses battery technology, uses, and technical elements, with a focus on iPods.
www.batteryeducation.com

Battery (electricity) - reader-changeable article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_%28electricity%29

Battery FAQ - Gel versus Sealed Lead-Acid (SLA), deep cycles, ratings.
www.batterywholesale.com/batfaq.html

Battery Knowledge Menu - Battery construction and operation topics from Engineers Edge.
www.engineersedge.com/battery/battery_knowledge_menu.shtml

Battery Review - tested small (AA) rechargeable batteries and chargers in a controlled environment.
www.batteryreview.co.uk

Battery Technology Comparison - Rechargeable. Compares AA cells, a few larger batteries, and supercapacitors.
www.powerstream.com/Compare.htm

Battery Tips - Battery care and disposal information. FAQs, advertisements.
www.lowcostbatteries.com/articles.asp?ID=117

Battery University - Analyzer and charger maker offers web version of book about batteries and how to charge them.
www.batteryuniversity.com/

Chino Battery Energy Storage Power Plant - Engineer-of-record report. Energy Citations Database entry describes the largest battery in the world. Abstract of 653 page document.
www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=7085568

Clean Battery Technologies - Theory, research and development, and market-ready energy storage devices that improve the trend toward clean, renewable energy.
freeenergynews.com/Directory/Battery/

EuroPositron - Start-up preparing to make aluminum batteries for electric vehicles. "Techniques Compared" graphs characters of different battery types.
www.europositron.com

Europositron Rechargeable Aluminum Batteries - Wiki-style entry at PureEnergySystems site.
peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Europositron_Rechargeable_Aluminum_Batteries

High Capacity Electrical Storage & Power Conditioning Units - outlines Plurions Cerium Zinc flow battery.
plurionsystems.com/

How Stuff Works: Battery - Illustrated explanation of battery function, types, and chemistry; related links. Good basic introduction to how batteries work.
www.howstuffworks.com/battery.htm

Hydrogen as a Secondary Fuel - Large color photograph of the Hindenberg burning, with lecture notes on Hydrogen for Fuel Cells. Large Print, with an e-mail contact
zebu.uoregon.edu/1996/ph162/l11.html

INL: Advanced Energy Storage Publications - Publications on battery and capacitor technologies for vehicles from the Idaho National Laboratory (INL).
avt.inl.gov/energy_storage_lib.shtml

Integrated Publishing - Collection of US Army documents related to the maintenance and operation of batteries and related equipment.
www.tpub.com/content/batteries/

Lead Acid Battery Technology Comparison - Examines the differences between absorbed glass mat, gel, and flooded lead acid batteries in deep-cycle (marine, and RV) applications.
www.vonwentzel.net/Battery

Magnesium battery patents - Compares Aurbach and Matsushita designs.
www.zpenergy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=902

Materials for Large Size Batteries and Fuel Cells - Page sells report which examines technologies and profiles companies involved. Forecasts markets.
www.the-infoshop.com/study/bc9123_fuel_cell.html

Multimode Battery Energy Storage System For Custom Power Applications - Four-page technical paper on system at Salt River Project. 200kW x 45 minutes. [PDF]
grouper.ieee.org/groups/1409/s14_18.pdf

Premium Power Corporation - Energy and Power Storage Solutions, makes flow batteries for storage and power quality assurance.
www.premiumpower.com

Telepower Australia Commercialisation Page - Outside SEI in Japan, Telepower Australia has more experience and technical know-how with VRB than anyone else. Link to bibliography.
www.telepower.com.au/Product.htm

Tips to Extend Your Lithium Battery Life - PESWiki entry from Pure Energy Systems. Includes ideas from readers.
spicygadget.com/2006/12/24/guide-getting-the-most-out-of-your-lithium-battery/

Why do large battery packs fail early? - Resources for Design. Explains problems in batteries with many cells.
www.powerstream.com/pack-control.htm

Stanford's nanowire battery holds 10 times the charge of existing ones - Page describes improvement to widely used cell type. <small>(December 18, 2007)</small>
news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january9/nanowire-010908.html

Breakthrough battery for electric cars? - Toshiba claims new (Lithium Ion) battery can be recharged to 90 percent capacity in under five minutes. <small>(December 13, 2007)</small>
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22240865/

Modified Electric Scooters - Lithium manganese batteries rock! Post and responders compare several cell types in practical applications. <small>(May 3, 2007)</small>
www.modifiedelectricscooters.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=36

AEP'S Appalachian Power Unit to Install First U.S. Use of Commercial-Scale Energy Storage Technology - [PRNewswire] <small>(September 19, 2005)</small>
www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-19-2005/0004110726&EDATE=

Powerful lithium battery - More powerful, longer-lasting lithium batteries on the horizon with Sandia-developed materials breakthrough. Silicon and graphite: a materials match made in battery heaven. <small>(March 6, 2003)</small>
www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases/2003/renew-energy-batt/betterlithium.html

Battery breakthroughs take wireless apps to new level - Compares emerging litium-ion technologies, and direct methanol fuel cells, for cell phones and laptops. <small>(February 15, 2003)</small>
www.electronicproducts.com/ShowPage.asp?SECTION=3700&PRIMID=&FileName=febtos1.feb2003

Sodium Sulfur and Lithium-Metal-Polymer Batteries Show Commercial Promise - cites 100kW x 7 hr AEP system [EERE: News] <small>(October 3, 2002)</small>
www.eere.energy.gov/news/archive.cfm/pubDate=%7Bd%20'2002-10-23'%7D#6123

Ovonic NiMH battery at EVS-17 - 3,000 miles on $60 of electricity <small>(October 18, 2000)</small>
www.poweronline.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID=%7B68774DBF-A4FE-11D4-8C70-009027DE0829%7D&VNETCOOKIE=NO