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To: engineer who wrote (25866)	4/2/1999 12:59:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) of 152472

* Battery Life * Thanks engineer. They carry whiskey and brandy in dirty great big breakable bottles, so they can hardly complain about whiskey safely sealed inside an electronic gadget. Methanol and ethanol are both very benign compared with lighter fluid which burns very fast. Even if methanol did catch fire, it wouldn't be of much concern. The flammability of the seating material is the real worry and since people used to be able to smoke on planes and still can on some and that involves getting a naked flame onto a cigarette which people can then drop on the seat in their drunken stupor. No worries! A safe little 100ml can of methanol or ethanol shouldn't be a problem either as passengers load up with hundreds of gallons of duty free high proof alcohol and are allowed to cart it onto the plane with their cigarettes. The screens of WWeb devices will always gobble a lot of power [I guess] so even with the Silicon Germanium chips and all the tricks, batteries will still deplete quickly. I wouldn't be surprised if methanol fuel cells are for real in 4 years time. I actually wouldn't be surprised in 2 years but I'm learning to be patient! Okay, 5 years. Which isn't that long from now. I hope Q! is up with the play and planning for handsets swimming in methanol or ethanol. Maybe they should buy the company. I forget the name of it - I think it was in New York. Mqurice

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