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Article: Battery power
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- June 22, 2003
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MARTHA McKAY, STAFF WRITER
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
06-22-2003
Battery power -- Often overlooked, it's what makes technology run
By MARTHA McKAY, STAFF WRITER
Date: 06-22-2003, Sunday
Section: BUSINESS
Edtion: All Editions.=.Sunday
Call it the Rodney Dangerfield of modern technology.
Despite our reliance on this everyday power source, the battery gets no respect.
Even people who specialize in batteries knock them.
"The battery's been on the back burner for 200 years," complained Isidor Buchmann, a well-known battery expert and president of Cadex Inc., a British Columbia-based battery testing company.
"They're the weak link in the equation," agreed Atakan Ozbek, director of energy research ...