Sarratt
Enlightened
From The Toronto Star April 13.
It seems that right now there is no alternative to regular alkaline AA cells.
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It seems that right now there is no alternative to regular alkaline AA cells.
".......The average infantry soldier on a three-day mission in Kandahar carries up to 40 spare AA batteries. That rises to more than 900 batteries for a platoon, 3,200 for a company and 6,500 for a full battle group of about 1,000 soldiers. The cost of equipping all the 2,800 Canadians soldiers in Afghanistan with enough juice to power their equipment for a standard six-month deployment, approximately 750,000 batteries weighing about 14 tonnes, can run up to $1 million....."
Full article is here.
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