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Coast outage? From: hackerwacker () tarpit cybermesa com Date:
Sun, 17 Aug 2003 15:48:05 -0600 (MDT)  On Sunday 17 August 2003
03:11 pm, Having folded space, the Third Stage  Guild Navigator
said: On zondag, aug 17, 2003, at 20:57 Europe/Amsterdam,
hackerwacker () tarpit cybermesa com wrote:  Sure, a regular
house has enough surface area to generate this electricity, but
not appartment buildings or businesses. But why have the
hydrogen in the middle? Batteries aren't as explosive. Also, it
seems that the large amount of hydrogen that will leak out
(remember, tinyiest molecules ever, but this is well established
for other gasses as well) don't do the environment much good.
Yep. Batt rooms do go boom if not vented. However you loose
quite a bit  in the charge/recharge cycles. i have not worked
with the gel or sealed batts that don't leak anything. When I
was off the grid, I factored in the  costs to transport them vs
the cheap marine deep cycle