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AI is no longer limited to cloud data centers or high-performance machines; it’s being pushed to the edge in the form of mobile devices, smart cameras, industrial sensors, wearables, and other consumer platforms. These ...
Flexoelectricity occurring in ice. (Image Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02995-6) Researchers at the Institute of Nanoscience of Barcelona, Xi'an Jiaotong University, and Stony Brook University have shown that ice can pr...
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Battery technology is advancing, and a new type, solid-state batteries (SSBs), is expected to emerge in the upcoming years. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, published a review highlighting the po...
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As electric vehicles (EVs) continue to rise in popularity, California is on track to retire millions of EV batteries over the next few decades. So, what happens to all those batteries once they can't power a car? A n...
The bladeless wind turbines rely on vortex-induced vibration rather than spinning blades to generate electricity. (Image Credit: Vortex Bladeless)
Vortex Bladeless has introduced an innovative renewable energy solution: bladeless wind turbines. Inst...
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Swedish firm Aliaro is sparking innovation with its Battery Cell Simulator (BCS), which provides engineers with a new tool for optimizing EV and eVTOL battery systems, without requiring an actual battery. The BCS accurately si...
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Indonesia and Japan have launched a $500 million initiative to add a second unit to the geothermal facility in West Sumatra, expanding capacity at the Muara Laboh site. Former Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ...
Flying 3.1 miles above the ground at 700km/hr, the jet transmitted power to ground-based antennae. (Image Credit: Japan Space Systems)
Japan Space Systems (JSS) successfully achieved a breakthrough: wirelessly transmitting power from an in-flight je...
Global solar power is growing by the day. (Image Credit: Bru-n0/pixabay) Solar power is growing at a rapid pace that humanity hasn't seen before. For instance, global solar grew tenfold over the last ten years, which saw installations doubling...
It feels funny posting about tubes on a site called element14. After all silicon was the great disrupter that pushed vacuum tubes to the sidelines. Setting all that aside I know the e14 community will welcome this blog... but it still beg...
Jackson Oswalt and his fusion reactor that he built in his bedroom at 12 years old. (Image Credit: Guinness World Records)
Like something out of a sitcom or movie. Every kid dreams big, and some turn those dreams into reality. In 2018, 12-year-old J...
The US recently delivered the central solenoid to the ITER site in France. (Image Credit: General Atomics)
The ITER project, an international partnership, is getting closer to achieving nuclear fusion, an effort that involves the replication of the ...
Aircela demonstrated its compact machine that turns CO2 into gasoline for vehicle use. (Image Credit: Aircela)
New York-based fuels company Aircela built a compact machine capable of collecting carbon dioxide, converting it into clean, usable gasoli...
Map showing highlighted areas of the Smackover Formation and the sampling area. (Image Credit: USGS)
The USGS used water testing and machine learning to discover approximately 5 to 19 million tons of lithium beneath southwestern Arkansas from the Sm...
An experimental thorium-based nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the 1960s. (Image Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory/US DOE)
In 2020, China conducted a national geological survey in 233 thorium-rich zones across the nation, find...
Artist's concept of a lightsail propelled by a laser and blasting off through space. (Image Credit: Credit: Breakthrough Starshot / Breakthrough Initiatives)
The Breakthrough Starshot Initiative isn't a new concept. Introduced by Stephen H...
Table of Contents
Introduction
Circuit
Current Limit
Voltage Limit
Building and Testing the Charger
Summary
Disclaimer
Introduction
Modern Nickel-Metal Hydride (Ni-MH) cells pack a lot of power, are low-cost, easily available, and are relativ...
Empa’s 3D-printed biodegradable fungal battery can supply power to temperature sensors for days. (Image Credit: Empa)
Researchers at Empa’s Cellulose and Wood Materials laboratory developed a 3D-printed fungal battery that doesn’t ...
China's EAST fusion reactor achieved a steady state high-confinement plasma operation for 1,066 seconds. (Image Credit: HFIPS)
Humanity is inching closer to an artificial sun, unlocking breakthroughs along the way. For the first time, rese...
Sample of a diamond battery. (Image Credit: University of Bristol)
Engineers at the University of Bristol developed the world's first nuclear-powered battery, which they claim can generate electricity via the reaction of a radioactive isotope pl...
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Isolated DC-DC converters are electronic circuits or electromechanical devices that convert electrical energy from one DC voltage level to another while being electrically isolated between the input and output. That isolation...
It happens that I had a couple of LGA775 coolers laying around from an old PC. The PC these cooler belonged to was discarded a long time ago, but I kept the coolers to be used in future power electronic projects. Back in November I decided to tr...
