Batteries Tolerate Alternating Voltage
We keep talking about alternating current as if that were the only game in town, when we oscillate the electrical energy within a circuit, when (in fact) there is another option, and that's: alternating voltage provided by diodes.
We use diodes to protect batteries. But what are we protecting the battery from? Alternating current.
We're not protecting the battery from alternating voltage. In fact, we're going to be accentuating the alternation of voltage in the course of protecting the battery from alternating current by the use of a diode.
Particularly, a single diode will do this.
So, this proves (or demonstrates), by simple logic, alone, that batteries can tolerate alternating voltage but they cannot tolerate alternating current.
So, we can give a battery alternating voltage and get away with it!
Now, obviously, I'm not talking about alternating voltage, alone, or alternating current, alone.
In the case of the former, I'm referring to the domination of the electrical energy (within an oscillating circuit) in the format of the extreme diminishment of current so as to highlight the presence of its alternating voltage.
We allow for just the bare minimum of the presence of current in order to satisfy Watt's Law and, thus, protect our batteries from the abuse which they could receive from the alternation of current.
This trick could come in handy if we're trying to work with batteries, without trying to directly help them, in as much as the alternation of voltage will give us what we need without destroying the batteries. We'll get to utilize the benefit of having batteries around without depending upon them, because we'll be passing an alternating voltage through them to get to our load.
And instead of destroying them, we’ll actually help to heal them, and (eventually) bring them back to life, if they have become dead to the possibility of storing a charge.
It sounds like a presumption (on my part) to claim that we can heal batteries with alternating voltage. But I say this because that is what forms batteries in the first place!
We are misguided (due to the methodologies of the products that we purchase) to believe that recharging a battery requires current when, in fact – when batteries are initially manufactured – their production occurs in the presence of voltage; not in the presence of current.
But due to the tendency for our electric products to exhibit the domination of current over voltage, when we recharge our batteries, we just assume that this is the natural way to do things when, in fact, this is the unnatural way in which we go about destroying our batteries, requiring us to purchase more batteries.
This is great for the economy of the people who make batteries, but bad for the consumer who has to purchase new batteries more often than we should be doing if we were to live in an ideal society that caters to the consumer rather than to the producer.
This is what we have in existence (today) within our Western culture.
I don't accept this condition which is why I rally my mind around the motivation to change it by blogging and podcasting (any which way I can) my thoughts on the subject. One way or another, this s***** hole of a life must change for the better.