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.