#1251 – Cell
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
I’m so used to devices with rechargeable batteries now it’s weird when I deal with something that uses plain old AAs. It used to be that when something in the house suddenly needed batteries there were tons of other rarely used things that you could “borrow” them from. Now when the batteries that shipped in the remote die before the device does it’s an unsolvable emergency. “People, I’m afraid we are going to have to leave the house and purchase actual new batteries.”
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i was listening to castle (a fantasy crime show) and i heard that new york recycling company says that they figured out how to recycle batteries when they are really dumping them in the ocean
@ mysteryman203: Well, assault with batteries *is* a crime even when it’s against the environment…
Three cheers for nickel-zinc. Now if they’d just make them in a size other than AA…
I wish battery recycling would become feasible. At least rechargeables take care of some of the waste.
Heh! I’ve got dogs – BIG dogs. And electronics – Many bits, much of it portable (though none self-portable!). I can sympathize with Biff there.
I buy AA and AAA batteries in semi-bulk.
@azkyroth my dad buys nickel zinc rechargeable batteries
Befriend someone in the theater industry. They have to put fresh batteries in all their microphones and radios every night, and you can adopt the old, slightly used ones for free.
Actually household battery recycling does exist, but you have to live in the granola-head capital of the planet to do it.
Well, here in Switzerland every shop selling batteries have to take it back for recycling!
I am a huge fan of Eneloop batteries. They last almost as long per charge as regular alkalines, they keep their charge for a LONG time (supposedly they keep 80% of their charge over the course of a year!), and they can go through lots of charge cycles before they wear out. They are more expensive than normal NiMH batteries but they’re well worth it.
Basically I haven’t bought any alkaline batteries in years. I just use Eneloops now.
Simple solution to recycling batteries. Load them up into rockets, shoot them into the Sun. We don’t have batteries sitting in the landfill, and the extra juice can keep the sun running for a few million more years. Strangely enough this is the same solution for nuclear waste that we currently don’t know what the hell to do with.
Lithium batteries all the way for cameras and such. Rechargeables can’t compete there – you have to have at least 60 on the charge to change them every minute or two photos.
About the only things I’ve had go well with normal rechargeables were my Xbox 360 controller and my barely-used portable CD player. They need to make higher capacity rechargeable batteries.
You know those devices that say you shouldn’t use rechargeable batteries in them? A bald-faced lie. They get paid by battery manufacturers to put that text there. I’ve got a digital camera that claims using rechargeable batteries in it would be dangerous; it’s worked fine for over five years. I haven’t bought any batteries in at least six.
But more importantly, is that a recycling bin exclusively for empty toothpaste tubes?