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...
The created the GPE-TENG by sandwiching a gel electrode between two triboelectric ecoflex layers. (Image Credit: Dongguk University-Seoul)
We're seeing a growing demand for wearables, like medical sensors, trackers, and smartwatches, and these r...
Table of Contents
Introduction
Charging Principle and Features
Circuit Description
A Worked Example: 4 x AA Cells
Building It
Tests
Summary
Introduction
There was a recent discussion regarding thoughts on a circuit for charging NiMH batteries. I...
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Smart buildings are characterized as a modern structure that uses advanced technologies to automate, connect, analyze and optimize performance across a multitude of devices, systems and platforms. In today’s world, sma...
The researchers developed a tiny soft rechargeable lithium-ion battery for minimally invasive medical devices. (Image credit: Yujia Zhang)
University of Oxford researchers have recently developed a tiny lithium-ion battery made of biocompatible hydr...
The CopenHill power plant features a ski slope, garden, cross-fit area, and hiking and running trail. (Image Credit: Bhjarke Ingels Group)
Five years ago, Bhjarke Ingels Group (BIG) completed the CopenHill, a waste-to-energy power plant in Copenhag...
The fabric is made from a polymer that converts mechanical stress into electrical energy when pressed or squeezed. (Image credit: NTU Singapore via YouTube)
Scientists from Nanyang Technical University (NTU) Singapore have developed a stretchable, w...
The nuclear battery design uses a small sample of americium embedded in a polymer crystal, which was combined with a photovoltaic cell and then packaged within a quartz cell. The design is rumored to be 8,000 times more efficient than previous desig...
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Swift Current Energy has started building the Double Black Diamond Solar Facility, the largest solar project in southern Illinois. Once complete, the solar facility expects to produce 800 megawatts of electri...
E-fuses can be integrated into chip designs or added to a system to protect devices from multiple failure vectors, including overcurrent, overvoltage clamping, current-induced thermal protection, and short-circuit protection. (Image credit: Pixabay)...
