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Message #13287
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Bruce Robinson Bruce_Robinson@telus.net
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 22:39:47 -0700
Subject: Re: a water + light powered aqautic robot?
> Meabadboy@aol.com wrote:
> >
-snip-
> You can't store hydrogen forever, it will leak through anything
> including several inches of solid steel. However, I suspect you can
> store it a lot longer than you can store electrical energy in a
> capacitor.
-snip-
I didn't know that! I did learn that glass will flow over time...i.e., a
100 year old glass house window will be thicker at
the bottom than it is at the top., Whereas new glass windows will be uniform
thickness (as well as the process permits).
> Bruce
>
Joe pledger
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