diy battery Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 03 Nov 2016 09:43:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 New High-Performance DIY Battery Made from Scrap Metal Discharges as Quickly as Supercaps https://www.greenoptimistic.com/scrap-metal-diy-battery-20161103/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/scrap-metal-diy-battery-20161103/#respond Thu, 03 Nov 2016 09:37:02 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=60733 Did you always think high-performance batteries (except for the lemon-copper-zinc experiment) can only be produced in factories? I did too, until today. Well, now a team of graduates and undergraduates from Vanderbilt University just found out a way to produce high-performance rechargeable batteries from metal scraps and a common household chemical: non-toxic, renewable, non-flammable. The team used […]

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