Electrical power

http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/efficiency/solar-powered-family-car-generates-more-energy-than-it-uses Posted from WordPress for Android →

Or lack of safety? This example is one cheap UK-schuco adapter. First look reveals that there is no fuse in UK plug (there should be max 13A fuse). There is no grounding on adapter (just plastic pin in place of ground pin), but accepts grouded equipment plug. But there is worse problem: when plug is →

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Free energy technologies is interested many people and there are web sites on free energy devices. But do those technologies really work as claimed? Most probably not. Here are two videos showing the bullshit on many free energy ideas. Mythbusters Free Energy “Busted” This episode busts the following ideas: the ring oscillator (referred to as →

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When you want to spead IoT devices around, there is challenge of powering them. You need to provide power to them or be prepared to change batteries in then very now and then. Great things are expected of the Internet of things but only if engineers can solve one potential show-stopper of a question: how →

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Crowdfunding campaigns or wide product announcements that do not make sense pops up every now and then. It seems that energy related “inventions” seems to be getting easily into the spotlight without proven merits: Hackaday article Crowdfunding Follies: Proof That Ohm’s Law Is Arcane Knowledge tells about a special cell phone case Kickstarter (Nikola Phone →