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Date:         Mon, 3 May 2010 02:04:59 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) vs Solar Panels
Comments: To: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
In-Reply-To:  <4BDE54BB.5010104@charter.net>
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At 12:44 AM 5/3/2010, John Rodgers wrote:
>OK, so we don't have a source of radio active materials. But these
>generators use a source of heat combined with a a thermo-electrical unit
>to produce electrical power, and that fact should be enough to plant a
>bug in some smart list members head to start the thinking on how to


Don't want to be a wet blanket, but check out the operating
efficiencies and then we can talk about it Fryeday.  Unless someone
has at least *seen* one while driving a Vanagon.  Could happen, there
are a thousand or so lying around in Siberia.


Wringingly yours,
D
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