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the High Plains where there are (a) no hills,

There's pumped storage and there's pumped storage. The kind we usually hear about involve pumping lots of water to an elevated reservoir, and I can see how it might not be a great choice in areas with little water. On the other hand, there is compressed air energy storage, and last I knew, there was air just about everywhere. Not a real widespread technology at the moment, but there is a 110-MW system in Alabama that's been commercial since 1991.

Google "Ludington pumped storage"

I've seen a lot of motherboards, and I can't remember ever seeing a soldered in battery.

Hi, Some has soldered ones. Any how they last quite long time. On mother board there are two time functions. One real time, one is watch dog timer.

I remember seeing one out of dozens of motherboards. I forget what the motherboard was.

- Don Klipstein ( snipped-for-privacy@misty.com)

Now I think I remember: I think it was on a 486 motherboard that I got in 1994 in a no name computer pieced together by a small computer store.

- Don Klipstein ( snipped-for-privacy@misty.com)

Back in 8088 days, motherboards often had a rechargeable battery soldered in. Solid state circuitry was not as efficient back then, and a motherboard clock would quickly discharge an alkaline or silver button battery.

Slightly earlier than that, there were no motherboard clocks. If you wanted a system clock, it was on an expansion card.

Al Gore's Home Energy Use Up 10%

Since June, 2007 the former VP's personal electricity consumption was up 10% according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research.

Gore's energy usage is under a microscope because of his worldwide push to slow global climate change through energy conservation.

In the past year, Gore=92s home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month.

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