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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a
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Date: 23 Oct 2024 21:45:21 -0000
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 10/23/2024 8:31 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Batteries are not a power source - they are a power store.
>> 
>> This is true for storage batteries, not for primary batteries like alkaline
>> cells.  Some languages make a specific distinction between "l'accumulateur"
>> and "la cellule" but English does not unfortunately.
>
>True enough. I wonder how much energy is required make all the
>components of a disposable AA cell, and the cell itself.
>
>I'd be astonished if its less than the power stored in the
>cell.

Far, far more, by more than a factor of 20 when I looked many years ago 
and it's probably worse now.

There was an episode of Fernwood Tonight with an electric car powered by
thousands of D cells, except that one of them was bad.
--scott

-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."