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To: waitwatchwander who wrote (7330)	1/20/1998 5:45:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 152472

Good buying Tom! $51.25 a minute ago [17.14]. Off to the races by the look of it. See Ramsey, as predicted by the resident soothsayer, no more drops on announcement of profits. Now all those waiting for the drop are stuck with the new prices - they'll have to chase. Oops a daisy for shorts. Ooops a daisy for algorithm merchants and sundry TA people. Yayyyy for the fundamentalists. Northforce, regarding batteries; chemical energy is dense. Safety, convenience, cleanliness are important. Maybe cost too with a new system like a fuel cell. A 50 watt supply would be fine for my Anita [TM] steak frying system, but a little on the warm side for an ear. They don't need to put out that many watts. They can cut the output to whatever. The storage in terms of amp-hours, kwatt-hours, etc is what matters. cdmaOne handsets need little power, 200 milliwatts for RF you say. That is measuring energy per second. And it is only a little bit of energy. Remember, a really weak torch needs only a couple of watts to make a good little light. What will matter is the size and weight of a methanol fuel cell for a cellphone. I guess they would be smaller and lighter than other battery types, but maybe a battery ace could comment. How about somebody go ask over at the battery threads? If ethanol fuelled instead of methanol, guess what Anita [TM] could have as another function!!! Piha Wave functions would be fun with a dozen cellphones handy. Great for celebrating Mighty-Q results downloaded from Globalstar. Mqurice High 30s!! Hahahahaaaa!

To: waitwatchwander who wrote (7330)	1/20/1998 10:51:00 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Wow, think of it, a 50 Watt supply. You could almost get that into your Pinto to haul around.....Seriously, 50 Watts needs to have a time factor to figure out your answer. If it was 50 Watt hours, then this would be a 50 amp hour battery, or about the size of your car battery, Q phone would last about 60-70 times as long as it does now. the desk top charger you have is not a 50 watt supply, but more like 700 milliwatt supply. Batteries are rated in Amp - hours...how many Amps it can output for how many hours. The Q phone is somewhere around 900 milliAmp hours, or .9 Amps for one hour. but there are alot of conversions that take place between the battery and the power amplifier. The power amplifier may be at a higher voltage and you need some kind of power converter to get there, so this may have some loss in it which takes power. So perhaps a 200 mWatt transmitter would draw say .02 amps at 10 volts (watts = volts times amps), but if your power converter takes 10% loss to get from the 3.6 volts of Q phone to 10 volts, then you would take (using amps=powerloss/volts) (200mW1.1)/3.6 volts=61 millamps, or 0.61 amps. So if these were the numbers, you phone would last about 1.3 hours. the Q is better than this but I just plugged in numbers to show how to figure it out simply. There is alot more than this which goes into the calculation and it takes a whole spreadsheet to do it right, but I hope you get the picture. As for flamables in batteries, I guess it is ok for you sailing types, but us airplane types may get a bit of a hassle....80). Better yet to make a micromachine in which the active ingedient is water and you decopose Hydrogen and use that in a small micromachine turbine to generate electricity directly. Can anyone tell me what frmT is in the Quote.com chart? Where did it come from? What market was open until 1.5 hours after the market was closed?