Storing large quantities of electricity has long been the domain of 150-year-old lead-acid chemistry.
The relativistic simulations predicted the voltages measured in real lead-acid batteries with great precision.
Dr Pyykko and his colleagues made two versions of a computer model of how lead-acid batteries work.
Motive power products include lead-acid batteries and chargers used primarily for lift trucks.
The venerable and ridiculously cheap lead-acid battery that starts your car every time with stunning reliability should tell you something.
A123 develops lithium-ion batteries, which can hold a lot more energy than the lead-acid batteries found in most cars today.
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The microgrid comprises eight 100-kW grid-tied inverters, the rooftop PV array, the lead-acid battery pack, backup diesel generators, and a Web-based monitoring and control system.
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Power Technology is on the verge of producing what it claims is a revolutionary lightweight lead-acid battery but has yet to find any potential customers.
The lead-acid battery is one of the triumphs of 19th-century technology.
That much has been known since the lead-acid battery was invented.
The first reason was that the lead-acid battery packs used in the EV-1 weighed 1600 lb. and were both too heavy and not powerful enough for widespread use.
So right now we're looking to move from lead-acid to lithium-ion batteries and we're working with the US Navy on a test programme that would allow us to do that.
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Johnson Controls serves this market by providing a variety of automotive batteries like lead-acid for traditional gasoline-powered vehicles, AGM (Absorbent Glass Mat) for start-stop vehicles and Li-ion for hybrid and electric vehicles.
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Built of plastic to save weight, it was more akin to a scooter than to a bicycle, and it ran on a pair of lead-acid batteries, similar to those under the hood of a car.
Ian Clifford, the chief executive of the Zenn Motor Company in Toronto, has done a deal with EEStor to replace the lead-acid batteries in the small, low-speed electric cars that his firm sells for urban use.
This week ARPA-E announced it is funding General Atomics to build a flow battery using well-known, and cheap, lead acid chemistry.
Its original nickel-metal-hydride battery packs have been replaced with lead acid batteries to extend the distance the car can travel on electricity.
Chelation, from the Greek for "claw, " employs amino-acid-based chemicals that latch onto lead, mercury and other metals, allowing the body to more easily excrete them.
Furukawa wants to reduce the price to of the salt-water system to half the cost of a conventional lead acid battery.
This would eliminate what has historically been the only performance advantage of lead acid in starter battery applications, and is expected to considerably increase the value proposition of A123's Engine Start battery as a lighter-weight, longer-lasting alternative to absorbent glass mat (AGM) and other lead acid batteries.
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Atraverda Ltd - The Abertillery-based company has developed a lighter ceramic material to replace the traditional heavier lead components in lead acid batteries making them lighter and greener.
Professors Brian Wharton and Ian Booth, from the Institutes of Child Health in London and Birmingham, warned that in people with vitamin B12 deficiency, consumption of folic acid may mask a condition called megaloblastic anaemia - which if not picked up can lead to degeneration of the spinal cord.
On that crucial dimension, if lithium-ion batteries are a 3, the next best technology, NiMH is a 2, and a lead acid battery, like the one you use in your car, gets a 1.
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