[53606] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Even the New York Times withholds the address
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Tue Nov 19 09:13:35 2002
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 09:23:32 -0500 (EST)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: Johannes Ullrich <jullrich@euclidian.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20021119083733.40d55d60.jullrich@euclidian.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > Not sure what they would gain by converting to fuel cells as the article
> > suggests. They probably would still require onsite storage for their
> > hydrogen source in order to insure uniterupted supply, either hydrogen,
> > lng, natural gas or propane. what's better in a fire, a heating oil tank
> > or a propane tank?
>
> How about using water power for backup? Store a big tank of water on the
> top floor and use a water turbine to generate power in an emergency...
Brilliant. Lets go back to school and study a little bit of physics that one
successfully slept through. The formulas that you would like to review come
from E1 = E2, E = mgh, W = K1 - K2.
Alex
