Re: Vampires as extinct species (was Re: Good current non"emotionally

: Sea Wasp <seawaspObvious@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
: After thinking about it I think I understand what you're saying. We
: have positive reasons to answer negatively to the question "can you
: store more than X amount of energy in batteries of a given size?",
: while Verne had no theoretical forbiddance, only a practical knowledge
: that no one had yet managed to create a battery that did so.

Yes, exactly so. Plus a little bit more: the sun was evidence that
there must be *some* way to store more energy per kilogram than any known
chemical fuels, eg, more dense than coal-plus-oxygen (or even
coal-and-get-the-oxygen-for-free), and similarly even with hydrogen and
oxygen.


Wayne Throop throopw@xxxxxxxxx http://sheol.org/throopw
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