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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (403495)8/1/2008 1:08:22 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1572366
 
"My point is, as it should be, if you are going to require electricity for the process, does it consume too much to make it workable."

For it's intended use, that isn't all that relevant. It just needs to be a better solution than batteries. The idea is to store energy that otherwise would get wasted. It is already ahead of the similar methods, some of which require heating a water solution of KOH. Like the oxygen generator on the ISS. Which is a fairly complicated piece of equipment with a regrettable tendency to stop functioning...
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