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Re: power-grid physics



Since Alaska is its own electrical island, Fairbanks, AK, has a solution to a power-grid failure - a 1,300 ton, 2,000-square-meter NiCd battery that can supply 40 megawatts of power for up to seven minutes.

The story is at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2003/08/28/cnalaska28.xml&menuId=242 (one line)

Rick Strickert
Austin, TX