What's that powdery, crystallized stuff inside your battery case? Classic battery corrosion. While it can be a frustrating and potentially dangerous matter to resolve, it isn't usually hard to clean ...

While modern power systems in personal electronics and larger devices have been gradually moving toward rechargeable frameworks in the interest of sustainability, there's still a lot of disposable ...

If you’re like many people, you don’t lift the hood of your car unless you really have to. If the car is working well, that ...

I'm sure anyone who's ever jump-started a car, replaced a car battery, or built a small 12V DIY nipple-torture device has seen this: a powdery, white and blue and maybe sometimes green substance on ...

So you’ve come out to your car, cranked the starter, and found that your car is dead? And after popping the hood and inspecting the battery, you’ve found corrosion around the car’s battery terminals ...

The average homeowner or hobbyist is likely to encounter broken or corroded batteries at some point, whether it’s while trying to repair a particularly well-used remote control or changing out a car ...

Energy storage is an essential element of the clean energy transition, from the electrification of cars to helping smooth out the intermittency of variable renewables such as wind and solar.

Q: I need your advice about the 2014 Subaru Outback that we recently bought from a dealer. I went to check the oil and saw that the positive and negative battery terminals were full of white corrosion ...

Double A batteries are great. Until you leave a camera in a drawer for awhile and the batteries leak and make a mess. I was traveling and bought off-brand batteries at a gas station. The corrosion ...

As you may know, we’re rather big fans of building things here at Hackaday. But we’re also quite partial to repairing things which might otherwise end up in a landfill. Especially when those things ...