"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" wrote:

John Tserkezis wrote:

Where they come into their own, is abnormally low temperatures (near
freezing in the snow for instance), where their life is about 10x alkalines.

Another area they may be better in is shelf life. You can expect about 10+
years for lithiums, and about 5-7 for alkalines.

The only place I have seen them here was a fan forced gas mask which was
part of an emergency kit given out to civilians in case of a CBW attack.

Good Lord !

What kind of paranoia lead to the that idea ?

Graham