{"id":4750,"date":"2011-01-15T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/01\/15\/einstein-and-lead-acid-batteries\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T17:42:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:42:48","slug":"einstein-and-lead-acid-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/01\/15\/einstein-and-lead-acid-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Einstein and Lead-Acid Batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Einsteinsimple-.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 259px; height: 194px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Einsteinsimple-.jpeg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562382819733106738\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">In<\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\"> &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> we discuss the way in which Einstein&#8217;s Special Relativity explains how and why transformers and coils work. I thought it was very cool to be able to see the role of Einstein&#8217;s theory in our little toroidal transformers. Yesterday The New Scientist (perhaps the best science weekly in the world) brought news that we need to consider relativistic effects if we want to understand how and why our car batteries (and, I suppose, our gel-cells) work: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Thank relativity every time your car starts. <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lead-acid_battery\" target=\"ns\"><\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Lead-acid batteries get about 80 per cent of their voltage from special relativistic effects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Check it out (the NS story is short and gets right to the point): <\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn19978-car-batteries-run-on-relativity.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&#038;nsref=online-news\">http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn19978-car-batteries-run-on-relativity.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&#038;nsref=online-news <\/a><br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/commerce\/index.php?fBuyContent=6743576\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.lulu.com\/images\/services\/buy_now_buttons\/us\/book_blue2.gif?20110113011644\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Support independent publishing: Buy this book on Lulu.\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221; we discuss the way in which Einstein&#8217;s Special Relativity explains how and why transformers and coils work. I thought it was very cool to be able to see the role of Einstein&#8217;s theory in our little toroidal transformers. Yesterday The New Scientist (perhaps the best science weekly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/01\/15\/einstein-and-lead-acid-batteries\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Einstein and Lead-Acid Batteries&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-einstein-albert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4752,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions\/4752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}