Electrical power

Synchronization Controls Could Help Smooth Microgrids – IEEE Spectrum

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Batteries Will Do To Energy What Cellphones Did To Telecom: Advanced Microgrid & Tesla – Forbes

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Liebreich: An Energy Sector Transformed Must Be an Energy Sector Reformed | Bloomberg New Energy Finance

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Google Introduces Project Sunroof – IEEE Spectrum

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Fluorescent lights safety and updates

I just saw old fluorescent light replaced with new one. This was the old one: This is the new one: In new one there is electronic ballast. What are the problem with old ones? Fire danger caused by failing capacitors and by heating of different parts of lamp (tube ends and ballast) when old tube →

Biltema grounded universal travel adapter

I bought this is universal travel adapter from Biltema to be able to connect my laptop power supply with grounded schuko plug hopefully safely to UK power outlets. Many other travel adapters only work well with ungrounded loads (typically either accept only ungrounded plug or leave ground not connected). This is one rare product that →

UK power outlet adapters part 2

I wrote earlier about bad UK power socket adapter. Here is another one – better but not ideal. I used this to connect smart phone charger. The basic construction looks good. You can’t touch the live parts with finger. The UK pins are all metal and not insulated on the upper side like in newer →