[ExI] solar is looking better all the time: was RE: Efficiency of wind power

Thu Apr 21 16:08:45 UTC 2011

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 07:23:25AM -0700, spike wrote:

> The notion of maintaining a bunch of lead acid batteries in the home is not
> attractive.  Among other things, you have a huge contamination risk if you
> have a house fire, plus the room taken up in your house, oy.

Charged lead-acid batteries (or any other batteries, for that matter)
can be a considerable hazard. A short will easily make you lose your finger,
and exploded lead-acid (nevermind outgassing) have blinded or killed people.

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