From: Steve Parker (sparker_at_torgo.punk.net)
Date: Mon Sep 14 1998 - 00:53:15 EDT
On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, David Black wrote:
> Sorry Jim, not true. After on year, Li Ion will still have 95% of it's
> *capacity* -- the ability to store energy. Charge dissipates in less
> than a week.
Perhaps he's confusing it with Lithium Hydroxide which is a
non-rechargable cell type that has excellent shelf life. It discharges
around %5 per year. It has no place as a main power supply for notebooks,
but it does make a dandy power source for CMOS RAM and clocks and such.
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