🚀 go-pugleaf

in article <1990Jul7.231235.6125@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) says:
> Picky, picky, picky. :-)  There are various wet-cell chemistries around,
> most of them with fairly specialized uses only.  (For example, there's one
> that uses plain salt water as the electrolyte.  Its performance is not
> impressive, but it's used anyway for some portable military applications,
> where it's useful that it doesn't spray corrosive chemicals around if it
> gets a hole shot in it.)  I was being picturesque rather than precise,
> always a mistake on Usenet... :-)

While we're getting picturesque, I saw a radio designed for nuclear survival.
The battery is started by pouring water into it. THe radio had gold plate
on it and everything!

bill S.