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From: gcouger@olesun.okstate.edu (Gordon Couger)
Subject: Re: Commonly Available Parts...
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Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1993 00:00:58 GMT
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In article <20ve1tINNl18@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller) writes:
>
>	Hey... what's the best (read "highest energy-to-mass ratio")
>	power-pack you can think of?  Batteries?  What kind?  What
>	about fluids/pneumatics?  CO2 cartridges aren't *too* pricey...
>
Gun powder has an excptional power to weight ratio. More realisticly I read an
article on a submersible vehicle that used a sea water battery it was consumed in the process. There should be several electro-chemical reaction that could give good power to weight ratios.

Gordon
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