OT: Lowest-power small server solutions

[Kevin Handy]

Patrick Finnegan wrote:

>On Wednesday 02 November 2005 18:19, Scott Stevens wrote:
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>>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.
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>No.  A battery with just one metal (or even no electrolyte) wouldn't 
>work too well.
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>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.
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Green crud usually means copper oxide. Sounds like the
battery container was corroding. Could be due to leaked
chemicals from the inside, but could be also caused by
moisture.

>Pat
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