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billdube(at)killacycle.co
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:37 am Post subject: Completely off-topic, but you will love it anyway

I posted about A123 Systems batteries now being used in Cessna 

business jets. Here is what we are doing on the drag strip with those 

identical batteries. This was on the Speed Channel just yesterday:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c8eLH8x_-Y



You can see what has been distracting me from building my RV-7. 



Bill Dube'

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n616tb(at)btsapps.com
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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:03 am Post subject: Completely off-topic, but you will love it anyway

Good batteries, bad distraction 



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Tim



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Terry Watson

Joined: 09 Jan 2006
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Location: Seattle, WA USA

Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:40 pm Post subject: Completely off-topic, but you will love it anyway

Bill,



The following is quoted from a special technology section in today's Wall

Street Journal about their annual awards for innovation. Would this be a

potential competitor to the batteries you are using?

"ENERGY



Co-winner Firefly Energy Inc., Peoria, Ill., developed a power supply that

replaces the heavy lead plates in typical vehicle batteries with a

carbon-graphite foam.



The result is smaller and lighter -- yet can deliver as much power as more

advanced and more costly technologies. Though its batteries aren't yet on

the market, Firefly has signed a deal with Sweden's Husqvarna Group to

provide batteries for the outdoor-equipment maker's planned line of electric

lawn mowers and lawn tractors. And in March Firefly received $5 million from

the U.S. Army to develop a prototype for possible use in combat vehicles."



Terry



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