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Article #6583Re: NiCad Battery and Environmental Protection
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:49
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:49
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In article <1992Aug28.034845.24007@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk> philip@next.csc.cuhk.hk (Philip Leung) writes: >Hi, has anybody heard of any environmental protection action against the >use of NiCad battery at national or international level? ... As far as I know nobody's taking legal action, but the winds are blowing that way. The problem is that cadmium is a toxic waste. The most likely long-term solution is that nicads will be phased out in favor of gel-cell batteries (which are basically lead-acid) or nickel-hydrogen batteries. -- There is nothing wrong with making | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology mistakes, but... make *new* ones. -D.Sim| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!torn!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: NiCad Battery and Environmental Protection Message-ID: <BtpoJA.4Bx@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: 28 Aug 92 20:49:56 GMT References: <1992Aug28.034845.24007@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 11