Tom Ring wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:
A battery converts electrical energy to chemical energy, i.e.
it transforms the electrical energy.

Gee, I'm just a silly old engineer, but I thought batteries converted
chemical energy to electrical energy. Unless you are perhaps speaking
of charging it.

Here was the preceding comment in context which you trimmed:
"I offered the examples of two real sources that will absorb power when
the returning voltage exceeds the output voltage (a battery and a
generator turned into a motor)."

The context was a battery absorbing power when the
charging voltage exceeds the battery's output voltage.
A battery converts electrical energy to chemical energy
during that charging process.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com