[R-390] storage

[Scott, Barry (Clyde B)]

I don't have empirical evidence for batteries, but I have pretty good evidence that concrete slabs cause automobile engines to leak oil.

Of course, this could be contradicted by the logic below.  The oil existed below the slabs long before the slabs were there.  Perhaps the oil creates the slabs and all I'm seeing is the slightly unused residue.

Barry(III) - N4BUQ

> Finally.  An explanation I can understand!
>
> Barry(III) - N4BUQ

Understandable, but somewhat premature!  True, there's a high correlation of
weak and dead batteries with concrete floors. This means that dead batteries
are either spontaneously generated from concrete slabs, or that dead
batteries emanate concrete -- well in excess of their own volume.  Results
of scentific testing and experimentation are thus far inconclusive.  In one
experiment, garages with concrete floors were observed over time -- dead
batteries appeared after a few years.  In another experiment, dead batteries
were carefully placed in open fields and in the woods.  A half century
later,  the fields were dotted with houses -- with garages -- with concrete
floors -- and one or more dead batteries.  The residents could offer no
explanation.

So, at this point, some 30 years after we can't put men on the moon anymore,
we truly don't know whether concrete gives rise to dead batteries or dead
batteries spontaneously generate concrete slabs -- or both.  But is a known
fact that concrete slabs cause garages, which then give rise to houses, etc.
There is one other theory, but it's ridiculous -- the batteries were weak or
dead BEFORE they were put on the concrete floors when new batteries were
installed in the vehicles, then not recharged and forgotten about.
Preposterous, I say!  Hogwash!

As for all this "electron" business -- that's all much more theoretical, if
they in fact exist at all.  I, for one, have never seen any.  BTW -- which
is winning now -- the wave or particle theories?

Barry (I or maybe II -- don't want to jump to any unproven conclusions)




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> On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 20:51:57 -0800 "Bob Tetrault" <rstetrault@attbi.com>
> writes:
> > I've gotta chime in here about putting batteries on a concrete floor.
> > ...valence trail...
> > Call me stupid, but tell me why, and be "scientific."
> >
> > Bob
>
> The concrete has sand, limestone and Portland cement.
> The Grand Coulee Dam is near Portland, and because
> so much power (electrons) is sent from there to other
> places around the Pacific Northwest, it leaves a "vacuum"
> of electrons, or negative charge in Portland. The electrons
> in the Portland cement hear the call for additional troops
> of electrons to return to defend their Motherland, and
> they do so via earth path. Since the battery is sitting on
> the concrete, it was inevitable that successive generations
> of Portland Cement Stormtroopers would evolve a means
> of piercing the case, or somehow sublimating the charge
> of the battery directly into the Portland cement for
> further dispatch.
>
> The Grand Coulee Dam was finished during WW2, and
> it took about a decade for the electrons to be drained
> from the 12 million or so cubic yards of concrete within
> that structure. It was not until the mid '50s that people
> started to see the sinister consequences of placing their
> batteries on concrete floors, but by that time it was too
> late...legions of garage floors had already infested the
> burgeoning new suburban developments, and our fate
> was sealed.
>