Olin Lathorp wrote:
> 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.

Hmm. I remember that alkaline cells had a high power density but at $xk a
mission I would have thought that other alternatives would have been
interesting. Either that or the price label of alkaline D cells normal
humans can buy has the decimal point misplaced by about two orders of
magnitude to the left.

Peter

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