battery Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/battery/ Mechanically-minded travel Thu, 09 Oct 2025 10:29:08 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Using gravity to store energy https://mechtraveller.com/2020/09/using-gravity-to-store-energy/ https://mechtraveller.com/2020/09/using-gravity-to-store-energy/#respond Tue, 08 Sep 2020 14:03:16 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=6338 Edinburgh-based Gravitricity are starting work on a scaled down demonstrator tower to test the response of their design for a gravity driven energy storage system. It’s not exactly a ‘new’ idea – I keep thinking of my dad’s fabulous 18th century grandfather clock – but it is deliciously simple and elegant. Gravitricity plan to re-purpose […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2019/06/review-azeville-battery-normandy/feed/ 1 Battery Powered Ferry Expands its Horizons https://mechtraveller.com/2018/10/battery-powered-ferry-expands-its-horizons/ https://mechtraveller.com/2018/10/battery-powered-ferry-expands-its-horizons/#respond Thu, 25 Oct 2018 12:13:06 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=3769 The Stena Jutlandica, which runs between Frederikshavn and Gothenburg¹, has now completed its first month of operation as a battery hybrid vessel, using both generators and batteries to power the ship’s electrical propulsion. Sten’s battery project is being trialled in steps so that the technology can be assessed and developed incrementally. Step One, which is […]

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