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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

Local versus global electrical power Up until recently, AC Power Distribution was the most efficient way to move electrical energy about. But right back at the beginning of electricity, it wasn’t obviously the case. Thomas Edison had favoured DC voltage … Continue reading →