Whack a troll is an interesting diversion
but it rapidly becomes tiresome. Do what you want to them, if they show, but I’m ignoring the lot. Teaching a pig to sing and all that. Oh, there is one final comment for a now former commenter: Lithium ion batteries cannot yet be recycled, moron. No electric car currently made is anything but a net gain in pollution and poor resource use.
Now: for the really good news! Laughing Wolf is back!
Damn, the guy just let his blog disapear off the radar and never wrote to me to let me update the link!
Welcome, LW, glad to see you, look forward to seeing you at Ogmeet 07, if you can be there.
Well, the ee.php was supposed to be temporary, but both I and the designer have been a bit distracted… I can’t promise, but do hope to get up there for OgMeet! Thanks for the welcome back!
Lithium disposables aren’t recycled (and the manufacturers say the chemistry is such that there’s no hazards involved).
There’s certainly at least nominal recycling of Li-Ion batteries; Dell, for instance, will take back worn-out laptop batteries (And Motorola claims it’ll take any they sold, likewise).
I don’t know how much of that is just “getting people to shut up about recyling them”, and how much is actually useful.
LiIons are also claimed to have no significant environmental damage effects from disposal – at very least they have nothing as toxic as cadmium or lead or mercury.
(Motorola’s DataSheet for their LII cells says “All Motorola Li-Ion batteries contain recyclable materials. Recycling options available in your local area should be considered when disposing of this product. Do not dispose of in fire.” … which would be pretty weak sauce if they actually needed recycling for legal liability/pollution reasons.)
I don’t think a LII-powered car is a great anti-pollution measure, or at all a good deal, but inability to recycle the batteries isn’t a serious factor in that.
Actually, Sigi, LI batteries are “relatively” safe to dispose, but recycling is virtually impossible and the reclamation value is less than a hundred bucks a ton. So they ultimately end up as landfill.
All that Lithium! No wonder the world is going crazy… Oh! I Forgot it helps crazies… or does it? :-)