[Greenbuilding] Battery charger--works on standard Alkaline

[RT]

On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:34:21 -0500, John Salmen <terrain at shaw.ca> wrote:

> For canucks eh!
>
> The blue planet alkaline family charger - only at Canadian tire $24.99

Take off ! Eh, you Hoser ?

It appears that that charger is designed for re-chargeable alkaline  
batteries, not regular disposable alkalines if there is an actual  
difference.

I had ( still do) have some early generation and later generation  
"premium"  rechargeable alkaline batteries made in Canada by "Pure Energy  
Battery Inc." of Amherst Nova Scotia that were marketed as "Green"  
alternatives to Ni-Cd rechargeables back in the days before Ni-Mh  
rechargeables were available (so we're probably talking at least 10 if not  
20 years ago ?) I have a few chargers that work for all three types of  
rechargeables.

I've had to discard most of the rechargeable alkalines  due to leakage,  
although they did work fine while they lasted albeit at 1.2 Volts only  
instwad of 1.5.

  Unfortunately, I didn't keep track of how many cycles they lasted but m  
guess is "more than 30, less than 50" which leads me to suspect that the  
leakage issues which seem to concern Reuben et al is a characteristic of  
alkaline batteries in general, rechargeable or not and not an issue having  
to do with the charger used.

Someone (BW ?) asked "why bother ?" (trying to recharge ordinary alkalines  
) I have brother who goes through bazillions industrial grade alkalines  
and it bugs my @$$ to see them disposed of after just a single use.
If I give him one of the two chargers that I'm getting via Ben, I should  
be able to reduce the
environmental impact of his battery use by an amount equivalent to oh,  
say, the EI of a small village somewhere.

Ben: Probably wasn't the best idea to be sending your home address to the  
List. (But I'll also need your phone number for Amazon.com and I'd suggest  
emailing it to me off-list)

Sacie: Thanks for your kind offer to let me piggy-back on you but I had  
already spoken to Ben.


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Kanata, Ontario, Canada

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