[ltp] One battery or two? (rant warning)

[Timothy Murphy]

On Monday 06 October 2008 03:13:04 am bhaskins@chartermi.net wrote:

> Did any of you watch "60 minutes". the bit about
> electric cars.
>
> It was stated that a small two-seater used 6000 laptop
> batteries.

Surely 6000 batteries would give enormous power?
According to /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state my T43 battery
is supplying 16 watts, so 6000 batteries would provide
70 kilowatts.



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