>
>
> > This may well be like the "myth" that sitting a car battery on concrete
> > will
> > discharge it.
> > According to several battery manufacturers (and common sense) this is
> not
> > true of modern batteries.
> > They say that it was true for very early batteries, due to their
> > construction, but nobody makes anything like that now.
>
>
> Huh? How is the material the battery is sitting on make any difference?


With a modern battery, it dosen't.
With the old glass jar and tar construction, it did, apparently.
But the old data persists, even though it's not relevant to modern
batteries.
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