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Message #13291
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: "Joe" doodle@teleport.com
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:01:27 +1000
Subject: Re: a water + light powered aqautic robot?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bruce Robinson
> To:
> Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 10:00 PM
> 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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