[TheForge] was solar cells OT: POL: chickens

[Bruce Freeman]

Interesting.  I wonder about a comparison of batteries and explosives
in common units, like Amp-Hours.  Probably could be easily tabulated.
Would involve a bit of apples-to-oranges comparison, but might be
interesting nonetheless.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:53 PM, James Binnion <jbin at well.com> wrote:
> They are quite dangerous for several reasons. The type I was using would explode if shorted for very long as they try to deliver all the charge at once. The lab I was working in was damn near burned down when a tech mis-wired a stack of 28 of theses cells and several of them burst their canisters with reports like an M80 and proceeded to burn. They set the wall next to his bench on fire and filled a large lab wing with smoke in a very short time span. But they produce lots of energy in a very small package. One of the engineers on the project who had an explosives background said that by volume they had more energy than an equivalent amount of TNT.
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> Jim
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Bruce
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