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Re: Even the New York Times withholds the address

  • From: alex
  • Date: Tue Nov 19 09:15:14 2002 
> > Not sure what they would gain by converting to fuel cells as the article
> > suggests. They probably would still require onsite storage for their
> > hydrogen source in order to insure uniterupted supply, either hydrogen, 
> > lng, natural gas or propane. what's better in a fire, a heating oil tank 
> > or a propane tank?
> 
> How about using water power for backup? Store a big tank of water on the
> top floor and use a water turbine to generate power in an emergency...

Brilliant. Lets go back to school and study a little bit of physics that one
successfully slept through. The formulas that you would like to review come
from E1 = E2, E = mgh, W = K1 - K2. 

Alex