Pentagon revs up drive for wearable power

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Public forum set for September 21 intended to answer questions about contest to build wearable battery-power system.

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Right Goal, wrong solution
by The Wiethoff September 18, 2007 5:28 PM PDT: Rather than pushing the edge of batteries, they should push the edge of low power requirements for their gear. 20W average usage is crazy high. The radios used by Nasa to talk to earth from the first space shuttle were less than 5W.; Like this Reply to this comment

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