Great prospects, but reading the following 2 paragraphs summarises the economic dilemma unlimited use has always posed:
Schindall also sees the ecological benefit to these reinvented capacitors. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, more than 3 billion industrial and household batteries were sold in the United States in 1998. When these batteries are disposed, toxic chemicals like cadmium can seep into the ground.
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3 billion - thats a big business with lots of money tiied up in battery production, sales and REPEAT sales...
"It's better for the environment, because it allows the user to not worry about replacing his battery," he says. "It can be discharged and charged hundreds of thousands of times, essentially lasting longer than the life of the equipment with which it is associated."
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So with this in mind then, between 1998 and today I would have only had to purchase 36 AA & AAA batteries - in TOTAL.
Thats enough batteries to cover all the remotes, clocks and little doodads in the house.
Noit only that - but I would never have to buy any again - forever
Doesn't sound like good business sense -
- great technology though