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Environmental Cost of Hybrids' Battery Recycling?
LostMyBeaver writes "I have been considering the purchase of an electric or hybrid vehicle for some time. The biggest problem I have currently is that both technologies make use of rechargable batteries. The same tree-huggers telling me gasoline is bad are telling me that batteries are bad too. I'm only partially knowledgable in this area, but it appears the battery technologies are generally based at least on lithium ion, nickel metal hydride, lead acid and nickel-cadmium. I was hoping someone on Slashdot would be knowledgable enough to explain the environmental cost of recycling these batteries. If I understand correctly, after these chemicals are 'spent' so the cells no longer maintain a charge, they are not useful for producing new batteries. I can only imagine that the most common method of recycling the cells is to store the toxic chemicals of the batteries in barrels and refilling the cells with new chemicals. This sounds like an environmental disaster to me. Is there someone here that can help me sleep better at night by explaining what really happens?"
Of course, we crush them up, put them in a line, and your mom snorts it...
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Never mind that shit, what's new with Chrome?
My solution is simple and 100% environmentaly sound! I eat a big bowl of beans every morning. When I'm ready to go to work, I hop into my radio flyer, pull down my pants, flick my lighter, and let off the largest fart you've ever seen.
It also helps that I live in an area where I can travel downhill both ways.
No, I will not work for your startup
Who cares? OOOH LOOK, the same product as last year but with more storage? Crazy who would have thought. Oh what you say, they make the iPod more Iphoneish. That's not news, that's par for the course.
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>I don't see anyone spending a good 30 minutes tearing open the Prius with powertools, only to run around with a 100+lb weight. At that point, they might as well steal the entire car.
Not to mention, since apparently they don't go kaput, so who TF would buy them?