In order to bring the costs of solar generated power down, the Department of Energy has decided to invest up to $13.7 million over 3 years for various university projects. The goal is to work on bringing the cost of the energy generated from photovoltaic technologies down. Current price levels are between $0.18 and $0.23 [...]

I know I ranted a bit the other day about the prices that are constantly going up and up. I was reminded again when I had 2 more pages of price increases cross my desk today. Lead seems to be stabilizing a bit however the costs in the electrolyte, fiberglass separator, even the polystyrene/polypropylene casing [...]

Those of us that like to go hiking knows that a good portion of the weight we lug around is from the batteries that we use.
We all like our gadgets, from cell phones to the PSP to keep the kids quiet (relatively speaking) while we travel. I recently spoke to a law enforcement officer that [...]

Those of us that have lived in areas where you have a higher likelihood of being in serious weather know about the value of being prepared and having an emergency kit. Now depending on where you live some of those items will change depending on the circumstances and environment.
Those in Wyoming don’t need to worry [...]

There is a group of companies namely Sharp Corporation, Daiwa House Industry Co., and Dai Nippon Printing Co. that have decided to join forces. They’ve decided to join forces in order to design and build a large scale storage battery for household systems. Your average home will use around 12kwh in power a day. Their [...]

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The “AH” that you see on most batteries stands for amp-hour. What this basically means is one amp for one hour, or 10 amps for 1/10 of an hour and so forth. It is amps X hours. If you have something that pulls 20 amps, and you use it for 20 minutes, then the amp-hours [...]

I know this can be a bit confusing as the abbreviations to these are CA and CCA, respectively. Now the cranking amps (CA) are frequently called marine cranking amps (MCA) to add a little to the confusion. What the difference boils down to:
-Cold Cranking Amps are how many amps the battery can maintain for 30 [...]

What is a CCA? What are Cold Cranking Amps? These are questions we get frequently here at Batteryweb.com. Let me see if I can clarify a bit. The cold cranking ampere (CCA) rating refers to the number of amperes a battery can support for 30 seconds at a temperature of 0°F until the battery voltage [...]

Free warning this will be a bit of a rant more than anything else. As with most things right now prices are going up. There are several reasons for this, both factual and conjecture.
One fact that is undeniable is the fact that a year ago lead was under 50 cents a pound and is now [...]