Hurricane Katrina killed 1600 people, displaced 500,000, destroyed New Orleans and is totalling upwards of US$25 billion in rebuilding costs. Now the great storm is triggering a boom in the reinforcement of emergency standby power across America. The Editor reports from this year's Battcon meeting in Florida.
As my friendly local undertaker says, "Your loss is our harvest." Getting to Battcon this year was a manic rush, the details of which I won't bore you with. For starters, I couldn't find a seat down at the front, as per usual, and things . . .
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