[email protected] (Donald Gillies) wrote:
>[email protected] writes:
>
>>In my 50, I've been sticking 386's for many years. The discontinuance
>>of mercury batteries stink. I have a few 35mm cameras that used
>>mercury batteries and don't have voltage regulators. Messes with the
>>metering. A bit of governmental excess. My employer accepts all my
>>dead batteries to be properly disposed.
>
>I think you are dead, dead, DEAD wrong about the discontinuance of
>mercury batteries. In case you didn't know, mercury is a neurotoxin
>and it's not uncommon, when there is a landfill shortage problem
>(which happens weekly all over america), to temporarily incinerate
>trash, thus putting a neurotoxin into our air.
No, I'm quite alive. The mercury battery problem, assuming it is a
problem, since the current state of land fill technology makes for
something a bit more sophisticated than a hole in the ground.
Membranes, piping to collect gasses and off flows, a requirement to
fund for the continuing operation of environmental systems after a
land fill is shut down, ect.
>
>Instead of griping about government excess, why not take advantage of
>a government-sponsored university near you - GOT EDUCATION ?? Then
>let's hear your revised opinion about whether mercury batteries should
>have been discontinued...
Why does my education need to be government sponsored? I have had a
bit of that stuff and a bit of privately paid for. Most of my family
have attended privately funded schools of education.
Car batteries have been dealt with by core charges and most people
bring the darn things back to a) get rid of them, b) get their money
back.
Something similar to that would have worked just fine. I guarantee,
most people would bring back a mercury battery for 3 - 5 bucks each.
>
>Maybe you could learn to solder and fix your cameras yourself? I fix
>or modify my SONY walkmans all the time this way.
Wow, you are an electrical genius. Let me guess, you did the shockley
diode trick that you learned about on the web to drop the voltage of
what ever battery that fits now. Did I guess right?
None of my Sony walkmans have ever failed so I haven't had to fix
them. I did get my Palm TE to recover from a fall last night that
stuck it in to permanent on until the battery cut out.
Btw, I have about 2 or 3 lbs of liquid mercury on hand. It is great
stuff. You use it to take a gun barrel with LEADING and it just sucks
the stuff up. Where did I get it? By vacuuming the remains of blown
mercury contactors over the years. Back when we were not hysterical
about the stuff.
Coal fired power plants are the big issue. I live in the Great Lakes
Region, fishing isn't the same now. So, pick your targets, batteries
were handled poorly. Camera buffs would have paid a deposit for the
return of the batteries they needed. Most other non durable stuff
would have just changed to accommodate a more environmentally friendly
battery chemistry.
>
>- Don Gillies
>San Diego, CA
San Diego, I've spent a bit of time there, the Marines hold a position
down there in enemy territory.
Wes S
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