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To: Asterisk who wrote (7944)	2/5/1998 2:48:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

Michael, so many opportunities! This methanol fuel cell looks like a total winner. I don't know that it would be specially patentable because it is pretty old technology, but some miniaturisation techniques will probably be. It seems such an obvious solution to electronic gadget power supply that it surprises me that it hasn't been done yet. But then again, everything, such as "CURRENT PRICE IS..." seems obvious but takes years to happen - not that I'm going on about it at all. They said "..."With hydrocarbon fuels, you can carry much more energy per pound. That specific energy is why biological systems run on them." *Off-topic* True enough that power for weight is huge, but hardly the reason biological systems run on hydrocarbon and oxygen! I hesitate to get into the philosophical basis of why biological systems run on anything at all, but C linked to C is the only way they can work. [Apart from some scifi ideas of Si linked to Si]. It's just another of those absurd coincidences of nature that it all seems to work fine. Let's face it, a fusion reactor biological system is hardly likely. Or a photovoltaic system, though plants pulled that one off - but they don't get enough energy from light to go running. In fact the whole subject gets too unwieldy about now. So I'll drop it... Mqurice [no more tempting me - time's to short]