I wonder why regular lead/acid or gel cells were not used...?  I would
have thought that they had a higher energy density.

Larry

Olin Lathrop wrote:
>
> Bob Ammerman wrote:
> > Not a joke.
> > I expect the batteries are prepackaged into modules to speed changeout
> > time. ...and you really don't expect the military to be too concerned
> > about costs, do you.
>
> Bob is right.  I've actually met the people who assembled the battery packs
> and sold them to Woods Hole and was shown photographs of the setup.  They
> aren't the consumer labeled products, but they took a bunch of normal
> batteries, spot welded them together in large strings and packaged them into
> a single unit.  They get used once and then tossed.
>
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