Say you had a dead alkaline or any other battery, used up of all it's charges, what would you have to do to make it usable again?

Diy alkaline charger (http://www.afrotechmods.com/reallycheap/batteries/batts.htm)
If you're lazy/dumb, there are alkaline chargers you can buy, but they may not charge as high as one that it homemade to prevent popping and resulting lawsuits.

Spatula Tzar's battery dissection page (http://godlovesmeat.com/spatulatzar/alkaline_battery/)

I use NiMHs because alkaline batteries don't work in my camera and they save money if not drained or overcharged.

I couldnt really care about how much energy it takes and how bad it is for the environment.

Rechargables suck for strictly functional reasons. After the first dozen or so charges, they dont last nearly as long.

Im gunna say rechargeable are better and cheaper only because you dont see any alkaline powered cars...


But ya, I understand your question. It depends in my opinion. If its for a device like your remote or something that your rarely use, go with alkaline. However, I use rechargeable for my MP3 player only because alkaline wouldnt make much sense.

That's pretty true with nickel-cadmium and alkaline batteries, but it's pretty untrue with nickel metal hydrides (NiMH) and lithium ions.

http://www.nimhbattery.com/nimhbattery-faq.htm#Question%20#5:%A0

I understand that lithium ions are quite a bit better than the NiMHs.

NiMHs work in my camera. Alkalines always drop their voltage unexpectedly.

any risk of losing the device ? do batteries last more than 3 months in it, without recharging? then use disposables.

The irony is killing me. You're all talking about saving energy, while you're sitting on your computer that's just sucking watts.

Li-ion batteries take 10 times more energy to recycle than it does to make them. So if everyone's driving Li-ion cars which need new packs every two years, what the fuck happens to all the waste batteries? If they'er recycled, it'll take huge amounts of energy.

Before everyone uses electric cars, we've gotta come up with another battery technology first. Sorry, but electric cars are NOT gonna be a miracle which saves the earth overnight.

I read a white paper on batteries and the environment, and with the current battery/motor efficiency, if everyone owned an electric car, the power consumption of all those houses would triple. So we'd need three times more power stations...so we'd need power stations which are more efficient than car engines, otherwise the situation would go nowhere.