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  1. Newsgroups: comp.robotics
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!gateway!miki!wpns
  3. From: wpns@miki.pictel.com (Willie Smith)
  4. Subject: Re: Power supply for robots
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov5.105538.8697@miki.pictel.com>
  6. Organization: PictureTel Corporation
  7. References: <Bx4o8E.Ax4@alsvid.une.edu.au>
  8. Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 10:55:38 GMT
  9. Lines: 16
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  11. In article <Bx4o8E.Ax4@alsvid.une.edu.au> rbyrnes@alsvid.une.edu.au (Rod Byrnes) writes:
  12. [...]
  13. >I have also been toying with the idea of using a fuel cell to keep the battery
  14. >continually charged. This would require "feeding" the robot with cylinders
  15. >of hydrogen and oxygen, and controlling the flow of each to the cell.
  16. >"Recharging" the robot would then be the simple and quick process of changing
  17. >the cylinders.
  18.  
  19. I'd be real wareful about playing with hydrogen.  It's not only
  20. incredibly flamable, but it's hard to keep hydrogen from leaking,
  21. hydrogen flames are invisible(!), and the explosion possibilities are
  22. real interesting.
  23.  
  24. Willie Smith
  25. wpns@pictel.com
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