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- From: bloom@inland.com
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rc
- Subject: Re: The end is Ni
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.082315.2199@inland.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 08:23:15 CST
- References: <BrotJH.KJD@world.std.com> <17012@acorn.co.uk>
- Organization: Inland Steel Company; East Chicago, IN
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- In article <17012@acorn.co.uk>, cwatters@acorn.co.uk (Colin Watters) writes:
- > In article <BrotJH.KJD@world.std.com> jlw@world.std.com (James L Walker) writes:
- >
- >>... stuff deleted...
- >> For that matter what is the environmental impact of NiCads.
- >>
- >>-- Les Walker
- >>-- High Flyers
- >
- > The theory is: People throw NiCads out with the rubish and the cells corrode on the
- > tip and Cadmium leaches into the water table. If you visit the library and look up
- > Cadmium in the books on health and safety you find Cadmium poisining leads to a
- > horrible death.
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- Before they make this nasty cadmium into batteries, where is it stored?
- Is it kept on the moon prior to industrial use and then shipped back there
- after we are done with our batteries? Perhaps it is kept in the ground
- on Earth........heavens no. To avoid cadmium poisoning, don't eat your
- batteries.
-