Bob Campbell wrote:

Batteries and chargers are available on eBay. Retail prices for NiMH
batteries are absurdly high.



It becomes a relative thing. If they last for 500 charges, the cost
suddenly becomes a lot more appealing.

In Calgary, Alberta, the average price for four 2500 mah AA cells is
roughly fifteen to twenty dollars.

How much would the equivalent 2000 normal AAs cost?

Then there is the recycling issue, waste of resources...etc..




mike

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:23:26 GMT, m II wrote:

Bob Campbell wrote:

Batteries and chargers are available on eBay. Retail prices for NiMH
batteries are absurdly high.



It becomes a relative thing. If they last for 500 charges, the cost
suddenly becomes a lot more appealing.

In Calgary, Alberta, the average price for four 2500 mah AA cells is
roughly fifteen to twenty dollars.

How much would the equivalent 2000 normal AAs cost?

Then there is the recycling issue, waste of resources...etc..




mike

Mike you are missing the obvious on the recycling of batteries; we get
the raw materials for them from digging them up from the earth then we
complete the recycling by burying the expended batteries back in the
earth. How much more perfection do you want? Sheesh, next thing ya
know you'll be telling me it'w wrong to pour waste oil into a hole dug
in your back yard. Yes, my employer had their annual Earth Day fair
today............sure am glad I went and got educated.

wrote:

Mike you are missing the obvious on the recycling of batteries; we get
the raw materials for them from digging them up from the earth then we
complete the recycling by burying the expended batteries back in the
earth. How much more perfection do you want? Sheesh, next thing ya
know you'll be telling me it'w wrong to pour waste oil into a hole dug
in your back yard.


That's a very bad thing to do. You contaminate the soil. Me? I do the
smart thing and use the toilet. That way, there's no contamination
anywhere. Sometimes I even follow the oil with a few gallons of solvent,
just to ensure the purity of the piping walls. We can't have the insides
of our septic equipment looking like..well..septic equipment.





ecomeister mike

"m II" wrote in message news:OuUNj.83$XI1.81@edtnps91...
Bob Campbell wrote:

Batteries and chargers are available on eBay. Retail prices for NiMH
batteries are absurdly high.



It becomes a relative thing. If they last for 500 charges, the cost
suddenly becomes a lot more appealing.

In Calgary, Alberta, the average price for four 2500 mah AA cells is
roughly fifteen to twenty dollars.

My point was that *retail* prices are absurdly high, which you just proved.
$20 for 4 batteries? You can get 12 of these batteries on eBay for $20
including shipping.

Look at what the worth of the British Pound (money) is worth nowadays
vis a vis the U.S.Dollar.At last count, I think the British Pound
(Sterling?) is worth two dollars.Arrahh, how much money is a Quit worth
versus U.S.Money nowadays, and those Pences too? I can look it up, but I
done got too lazy.

A few years ago, that married Irish woman in Booger Reegizz (Bognor
Regis) England, she snail mailed me a snail mail check (cheque) for some
Maybelline eye liner pencils that I had snail mailed to her.(she said
the stores in her area do not carry those favorite [[On The Rocks]] eye
liner pencils of hers anymore.[[I have to get out every few months to
the stores and buy wimmins eye liner pencils]] I immediately tore that
cheque of hers up and flushed it down my crapper.
cuhulin, Lazy Larry