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To: gg cox who wrote (68982)4/30/2008 2:47:58 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Thanks for the reference to VRB batteries. I read quite a bit of it [enough to get a general idea of what they are up to]. At present they are not in the residential and small business market. I suppose there are plenty of bigger places which can use their systems if the price is right.

Being in the environmental business, I suppose they have to use words like sustainability, and counting how much CO2, methane and SOX they put out compared with lead acid batteries, but that stuff makes me feel queasy as though I'm getting enmeshed in a cult business dependent on lunatics for profit, which is not what I like to invest in.

Lead acid batteries put out so little CO2, CO etc that they are irrelevant.

Diesel generators are noisy brutes, so it would be nice to have batteries to recharge so engines could be turned off in the suburbs at night. And anyway, a diesel generator would produce too much electricity for just a little laptop to keep working. So storage would still be needed.

Photovoltaics, working only in the sun, require battery backup unless a person is happy to do things when the sun is out and sleep when it's not, just as nature intended.

If they started developing little batteries, I'd be more interested.

The fear about sulphuric acid is amusing, with lots of regulatory costs and hassles. I suppose chemicals have to be controlled because things will go wrong and some planning is necessary to avoid pouring sulphuric acid into a fish farm etc.

Mqurice
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