Ain’t no “free lunch.”
There are reports that the site around the battery manufacturing facility (in Ontario as I recall) is SO polluted and barren that NASA used the place to test the lunar rover.
Wonder what price we’ll all ultimately pay for concentrating toxins in those locations as opposed to spreading it over the globe, where, because of smaller levels, nature can better deal with it.
I’m sure the goofballs in Cahlifonia LOVE that THEIR trash is piling up in Ontario or Pittsburgh or Cleveland as it lets THEM feel good that they’re saving the earth — except for THOSE already dirty, faraway places.
Read post 5 and 8.
Sudbury, Ontario is where Inco’s big nickle producing mine and processing facilities are located. And, indeed, the area immediately around Sudbury does look like a moonscape, but that happened long before the Ni-Mh battery was ever invented, and production has been cleaned up considerably since then. Undoubtedly, however, producing the nickle and other constituents of these batteries is a highly energy-intensive process. It is a very recyclable metal, however.