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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The venerable and ridiculously cheap lead-acid battery that starts your car every time with stunning reliability should tell you something.
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.
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.
According to Al-Jazeera, the girls were attacked with battery acid.
For anyone with any taste whatsoever for good, or even marginally-drinkable, alcohol, Four Loko is like the coming of Gozer, but instead of manifesting as a large and moving Torg, he appears as a 24-ounce can of purple armpit juice and battery acid.
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Furukawa wants to reduce the price to of the salt-water system to half the cost of a conventional lead acid battery.
On Earth there are micro-organisms that can live, and even thrive, in acidic water, even battery acid.
These were the corpses left by right-wing death squads in the city streets most nights, their faces dissolved by battery acid and their backs or chests scored with the tags of their killers.
Two alleged co-conspirators have been detained: Alleged hit man Yuri Zarutsky -- a burly, bearded Russian who was previously convicted of beating someone to death -- and Andrey Lipatov, who allegedly drove the getaway car after Zarutksy's battery acid attack on Filin.
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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