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	<description>Innovation and history in the battery industry.</description>
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		<title>Future, Current &amp; Past Battery Innovations</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Samuel Insull

If you read my last blog, (Thank you!), and if you read it closely you would have know that Mr. Samuel Insull was going to be brought to your attention again. Not because he was a battery man as most of us here consider ourselves to be but because our industry of Pb-acid batteries is one of the cousins in the electrical energy family. In the family of energy Insull was huge. No! Do not do as some of my fellow workers have done when I mentioned Insull. They literally rushed to be impressive with names they knew from history. You know the school-day names like Ampere, Edison, Faraday, Franklin, Gramme, ]]></description>
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		<title>Future, Current &amp; Past Battery Innovations:  Batteries! What future?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hugh Abner [46 Years and Counting Manufacturing Batteries and Battery Machinery] The most prominent energy researcher of our times has said, “Batteries used for electrical vehicles will have to be standardized.” &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; Okay, come on now &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- stop laughing. Seriously! Cut it out. We have things we need to discuss here. SHUT UP AND [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future, Current &amp; Past Battery Innovations:  Government, Health and the Battery Industry (A long look back)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hugh Abner [46 Years and Counting Manufacturing Batteries and Battery Machinery] One time years ago when I had the duties of a manufacturing engineer for a British owned American battery company I was assigned the task of accompanying one of our corporate health doctors through visits to our multiple U.S. factories. I had no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future, Current &amp; Past Battery Innovations: Subsurface Area</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 16:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hugh Abner [44 Years and Counting Manufacturing Batteries and Battery Machinery] Some of us that mostly have dwelled in our battery world by melting Pb and making mud do not normally stop and consider the importance of the surface area. It is an accepted fact to us when we are assembling a battery with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future, Current &amp; Past Battery Innovations: All This With Only 20%</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hugh Abner [44 Years and Counting Manufacturing Batteries and Battery Machinery] There is an article this week in The Economist. I will not debate it here or try to improve on it. I do want you to know about it though because if your life is in our Pb-Acid battery industry then it will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Battery Factory Review (1965)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 01:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hugh Abner [44 Years and Counting Manufacturing Batteries and Battery Machinery] For this Blog I am going to get away from the usual comments about battery machinery even though there is much more of that to discuss. We still have one major machine in the Top Lead series which is fundamental to the industry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Lead Three</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hugh Abner [44 Years and Counting Manufacturing Batteries and Battery Machinery] Well you have waited patiently on this version of Top Lead so I thank you. There is so much going on the world it is hard to resist taking advantage of this Blog format for commentary rather than historical review of the evolution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BP</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hugh Abner [44 Years and Counting Manufacturing Batteries and Battery Machinery] Sorry! At this time in our country and especially for those of us on the Gulf Coast, as well as the Atlantic Coast I simply cannot bring myself to return right now to Top Lead. The challenge is going to be to relate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lardberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hugh Abner [44 Years and Counting Manufacturing Batteries and Battery Machinery] No! I have not lost it. I actually have seen lardbergs and I saw them in a battery factory. At the time they were a big part of my early on life as a factory manager. Before I can tell the story though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Lead Two &#8211; a continuation of What Top Lead (Pb) Means to All of Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hugh Abner[44 Years and Counting Manufacturing Batteries and Battery Machinery] Okay, if you are a hard core battery man then you truly did read Top Lead One and you have been reminded of the many changes to our industry that came when the plastic polypropylene battery cases were introduced for automotive SLIG batteries. Out [...]]]></description>
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