Archive for July, 2009

How to backup and restore your netbook

Having a small-capacity solid-state drive in your netbook may be limitation but it has one advantage: it’s easy to back up. We don’t mean copying a few files over to a safe place, but duplicating the entire drive, operating system and all, ready to drop it all back on if the worst comes to the [...]

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The Newest battery in Discount laptop battery UK online shop

The Newest battery in Discount laptop battery UK online shop
The newest and cheapest battery is coming. Now the Discount-laptop-battery.co.uk promote some discount laptop battery between July 30 – September 30. These batteries price are 25% discount. The batteries are for the newest main brand notebook and netbook. Now let me list these batteries for our [...]

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How to Open a Laptop Battery & Replace the Lithium Ion

How to Open a Laptop Battery & Replace the Lithium Ion

Laptop batteries, like all rechargeable battery packs, lose their charging capacity over time. Because new laptop batteries are expensive, replacing the individual cells inside the battery casing can save a lot of money. However, rebuilding a battery sometimes does not work as expected, so it’s [...]

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New Study Sheds Light On The Growing US Wind Power Market

For the fourth consecutive year, the U.S. was home to the fastest-growing wind power market in the world in 2008, according to a report released by the U.S. Department of Energy and prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).  Specifically, U.S. wind power capacity additions increased by 60 percent in 2008, representing a $16 [...]

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Winds of change

The U.S. can greatly boost clean wind power for 2 cents a day. Now all we need is a president who won’t blow the chance.

May 17, 2008 | A stunning new report just issued by the Bush administration finds that for under 2 cents a day per household, Americans could get 300 gigawatts of wind [...]

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Diesel-Electric Hybrid Train

Diesel-Electric Hybrid Train
Trials will start next year on what is being billed as Europe’s first hybrid high-speed train, which can cut emission levels by up to 50%. The system, which has been developed by Hitachi in Japan, consists of a battery-assisted diesel-electric traction engine. The traction unit uses the battery when the train is at [...]

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Linux, power management and laptop battery life

Linux, power management and laptop battery life
Ever since I’ve got new laptop last November, I was quite unhappy with its battery life. Initially it used to keep computer running for around 2.5 hours with usual workload (mail/www/docs), while Dell advertised up to 5 hours of work with that particular 6-cell battery model. After some time [...]

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Notebook battery Power saving techniques

Notebook battery Power saving techniques
In fact, how to make good use of Laptop battery, how to extend the laptop battery using time and life is problem for all notebook users, a problem. There are many laptop battery using tips in our daily life that we shoule know in normal use and application.
(A) quick to enter [...]

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Some common sense about Rechargeable battery

Some common sense about Rechargeable battery
What is the cycle life of rechargeable battery?
 
When a latitude D820 battery experiences a charge and discharge, we call a cycle or a period. In the stated charge and discharge principles and the capacity decline before a stated standard, the total cycles it can undergo called rechargeable battery cycle life.
What [...]

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New battery can not be fully-charged

New battery can not be fully-charged
Generally the new battery can 100% fully discharge-charge. Last month I buy a latitude d820 battery replacement, as my work dont need to take the notebook out, so I use the notebook with the AC adapter and I store the battery in my drawer. Last Friday, I want to [...]

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