Posted on 11/23/2005 8:27:00 AM PST by ideablitz
Anyone here know what happens to the batteries of Hybrids or any battery for that matter?
Where do they go after they are "dead" and how does it get either recycled, trashed, or whatever?
Thanks.
They string about eight of them together and the whole array is used to power Mo Dowd's vibrator.
They are removed through a dangerous process similar to that used in refueling nuclear submarines.
she might need like 69 of them that were not used by any man.
They become hazardous waste and must be buried in Nevada somewhere.........
I tried Lithium Battery Destruction Procedures and got some leads on information on the subject.
Use that search formula and you should have some success.
I don't know about your locale, but in Columbus, Ohio, they mostly get tossed into any dumpster behind a Target store...
"how does it get either recycled, trashed, or what"
Put them inside of brown paper bag, which goes into an empty Cheerios box, that goes into a black plastic trash bag and toss the whole thing into the household trash pit at your local transfer station.
I think she gave up the battery powered model and went with the regular 2 cycle Stihl.
I heard they all get shipped to a huge storage facility in Idaho, until such time as the all-knowing and all-powerful federal government can figure out a permanent solution, like burying them in a mountain in Nevada.
Wait, ... Maybe I'm thinking of spent nuclear fuel.
The batteries are stored in Love Canal...
An excellent question, and I've wondered the same thing. Disposing of batteries is one thing when there's only a few thousand of these cars on the road, but what about when there's millions of them?
There's some pretty nasty chemistry and metals going on in those things.
Passing a law against this would make this practice impossible...
Nope. Upgraded to compressor and jackhammer.
From a waste disposal website:
"Many battery types can pose serious problems when disposed of as municipal waste; their toxic constituents can be released into the environment from municipal landfills and incinerators, causing damaging health effects. These problems can be ameliorated by reducing the amount and/or toxicity of batteries in the wastestream or by recycling them."
Hopefully thy hybrid batteries get recycled. Otherwise, they likely ultimately cause more pollution than if the envirowacho had driven a non hybrid car.
One of our security guards at work gave me the old lib angle that Big Oil has prevented us from having a clean steam engine. This was a very hot day in august. I came back at him and said....Can you imagine if every frikken car out there was puttin out steam....it would be like a sauna out there. Internal combustion engines are the best and least polluting (en masse and when all things are considered) thing we have going out there.
He thought for a second and said.."Oh..." :)
The biggest problem with electronic cars and all devices. I understand there are vast dead batter farms throughout the west.
Electronic cars simply move pollution, it saves us zero.
There's some pretty nasty chemistry and metals going on in those things.
You don't mean they will become.... an environmental hazard... do you??? The ultimate irony.
Surely she is aware of how polluting 2 Stroke (pun intended) engines are, and should look into a 4 Stroke (pun intended) unit.
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