[The magic of DC-DC voltage conversion | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35668708)
[The magic of DC-DC voltage conversion - lcamtuf's thing](https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/the-magic-of-dc-dc-voltage-conversion)

## electricity

[Analyzing my electricity consumption | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40868504)
[Analyzing my electricity consumption | zdimension](https://zdimension.fr/analyzing-my-electricity-consumption/)

[Tests show high-temperature superconducting magnets are ready for fusion | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39647331)
[Tests show high-temperature superconducting magnets are ready for fusion | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology](https://news.mit.edu/2024/tests-show-high-temperature-superconducting-magnets-fusion-ready-0304)

[James Conca](https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/#71ef4f07709b)
(2012) How Deadly Is Your Kilowatt? We Rank The Killer Energy Sources
It seems that Coal is way more harmful than Nuclear.

[Scientists reveal breakthrough that could reduce need for solar farms - Positive News - Positive News](https://www.positive.news/society/scientists-reveal-breakthrough-that-could-reduce-need-for-solar-farms/)

[start []](https://wiki.sunbeam.city/doku.php?id=start)
- solarpunk is a movement of rigged-up solar work, maybe goes to [hacking]?

[Does Nigerian Girls' Science Fair Project Turn One Liter of Urine Into Six Hours of Electricity? | Snopes.com](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/urine-into-electricity/)

## battery

[First anode-free sodium solid-state battery | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40891252)
[UChicago Prof. Shirley Meng’s Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion creates world’s first anode-free sodium solid-state battery – a breakthrough in inexpensive, clean, fast-charging batteries | Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering | The University of Chicago](https://pme.uchicago.edu/news/uchicago-prof-shirley-mengs-laboratory-energy-storage-and-conversion-creates-worlds-first)

[Charging a lithium battery to 80% only? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38317893)
[batteries - Wouldn't charging a lithium battery to 80% only defeat the purpose of putting the battery into longer use in the first place? - Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange](https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/623358/wouldnt-charging-a-lithium-battery-to-80-only-defeat-the-purpose-of-putting-th)

[Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40248627)
[Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production](https://newatlas.com/energy/natron-sodium-ion-battery-production-startt/)

[The rise of batteries in six charts | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39144978)
[The Rise of Batteries in Six Charts and Not Too Many Numbers - RMI](https://rmi.org/the-rise-of-batteries-in-six-charts-and-not-too-many-numbers/)

[Batteries: How cheap can they get? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40877337)
[Batteries: how cheap can they get? - by Auke Hoekstra](https://aukehoekstra.substack.com/p/batteries-how-cheap-can-they-get)

[How to debug your battery design | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41090658)
[GitHub - ionworks/how-to-debug-your-battery: A guide on how to understand the performance of your battery with modelling and improve it](https://github.com/ionworks/how-to-debug-your-battery)