OT: Lowest-power small server solutions

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Wednesday 02 November 2005 18:19, Scott Stevens wrote:
> But don't lithium batteries contain just lithium, which is all gone
> by the time the battery discharges?  An alkaline or carbon-zinc
> battery starts oozing as a rule within a few years.  The AAA lithium
> battery presumably doesn't run the risk of that until at least 2020.

No.  A battery with just one metal (or even no electrolyte) wouldn't 
work too well.

As proof, I pulled a CR2032 out of a machine today, and it had some 
green crust forming on the battery.  The batteries were in machines 
that were about 10 years old.

Pat
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