Recycle Your Rechargeable Batteries!
Tech Soup
JULY 1, 2010
Most mobile phones and laptop computers use lithium ion rechargeable batteries. Tags: Green Office GreenTech GreenTips. Find out where to recycle them at Call2Recycle.org.
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SOCAP: The Market at the Intersection of Money and Meaning
Tech Soup
SEPTEMBER 5, 2013
I hope you'll pardon me if I start with a green tech thing. A woman named Gail Work stopped by to chat about her new non-toxic green battery company in Silicon Valley called SeaWave Battery. She said that it generates more electricity at a lower cost than lead-acid and lithium ion batteries. SeaWave Battery. Free Range.
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How to Get Long Life Out of Laptop and Cell Phone Batteries
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JUNE 20, 2011
Dell says that a full life span for a garden-variety lithium-ion laptop battery is 18 to 24 months. Also it doesn't harm lithium-ion batteries to keep your laptop plugged in to AC power most of the time when you're using it because modern chargers are designed to shut off when the battery is fully charged.
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In the last 10 years, iron ore production has increased by 180%, cobalt by 165%, and lithium by 125%. Although we’ve been told otherwise, there is no such thing as a “green” cell phone or computer. And getting those materials out of the ground has environmental consequences.
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