Partially consumed AA batteries - any use?

[tym]

Who said anything about paying? I drop it off for free at the state e-waste facility in our county.

BTW PCBs dont just come out of the earth. PCBs are not found in the earth in that form. They are toxic man-made chemicals

I take mine to Home Depot or Lowe's. You always see fluorescent tubes sticking out of the recycling box and I only have one fixture in my basement that takes the tubes. I am not sure what the store does with them, probably ships them to China for disassembly by hand (I'm not kidding).

The town dump and a commercial recycling center within a couple of miles of me will all take batteries and bulbs as well.

 

[ambenz]

Oops lol I’m in California...... I would rather have fun and enjoy life and live till 65-75 then live in a bubble and live a miserable life till I’m 100. I need to move. I’m sick of this place.

Don't like paper straws, people shitting in the street and free drug needles?!?! What kind of Californian are you??? J/K...I have a friend there and the hoops that you have to jump thru to even buy gun ammo....give me a break...Cali is really a disaster in the form of unenforceable green planet laws!!!! Pretty soon, it is gonna be filled with druggies and tree huggers....enjoy the weather if the fires don't consume your property!

Sorry for the rant on California laws...back to the OPs question. Never mind all the NAY Sayers on this site when I post this but you can recharge and bring them back to life!!!!
Here is a video on the process....

...I tried it and it works!

 

[egdede]

Your welcome. Not too lazy, too cheap. I am already paying someone to take my trash (dumpster), why pay even more for special trash that I have to deliver? Make it free and convenient and I may consider recycling. Besides that, everything in those tubes came from the earth in one way or another, it's just getting returned.

Read about the specific dangers of mercury poisoning and the cancer causing effects of PCBs, and then learn about groundwater migration of chemicals ('contaminate plume').

It is pretty basic stuff. Be responsible. It's easier just to piss in the corner of the living room but you probably go to the bathroom to piss right? Because you don't want to smell piss in the living room; right? It is the same thing with toxic waste. Only you don't smell the piss right away. But your children and grand-children will be smelling that piss forever!!!

Don't be one of the people who makes these problems worse, be one of the people that mitigates these problems. Be one of the people who tries to make this world better.

 

[wyliesdiesels]

Read about the specific dangers of mercury poisoning and the cancer causing effects of PCBs, and then learn about groundwater migration of chemicals ('contaminate plume').

It is pretty basic stuff. Be responsible. It's easier just to piss in the corner of the living room but you probably go to the bathroom to piss right? Because you don't want to smell piss in the living room; right? It is the same thing with toxic waste. Only you don't smell the piss right away. But your children and grand-children will be smelling that piss forever!!!

Don't be one of the people who makes these problems worse, be one of the people that mitigates these problems. Be one of the people who tries to make this world better.

Bravo!! Well said!!

 

[Jaguar Fan]

PS. AA batteries slide right inside a 10’ length of 1/2 copper pipe. Resulting in approx. 75vdc for new or 65vdc for depleted to 1.3V batts. Ground one end w/ a copper cap and install a 2 wire output on the open end. They may be useless in & of themselves but lots of juice when added together.
The world is full of waste & suckers do to ignorance. Life’s tough, it’s more so when you’re ignorant.

OK, now I'm curious: hypothetically, is it possible to to take that 10' length of 1/2 copper pipe full of AA batteries with maybe 65vdc, and somehow (sorry if this is a stupid question) "transfer" the juice to, say, an external USB rechargeable battery pack to then recharge a cell phone?

Or is this too complicated? I'm a retired guy, so the effort is something I might willingly do just for fun -- and to say I did it.

Again, sorry if this is a stupid question.

 

[MikeF2316]

OK, now I'm curious: hypothetically, is it possible to to take that 10' length of 1/2 copper pipe full of AA batteries with maybe 65vdc, and somehow (sorry if this is a stupid question) "transfer" the juice to, say, an external USB rechargeable battery pack to then recharge a cell phone?

Or is this too complicated? I'm a retired guy, so the effort is something I might willingly do just for fun -- and to say I did it.

Again, sorry if this is a stupid question.

Yes, you'd want to use a DC-DC converter with a 5 volt output. Connect that to a cut off USB cable with the appropriate connector and charge your pack.

I did it in the opposite direction when the 5 volt supply for my GPS died. I cut the cable off a USB keyboard, cut the dead 5 volt supply off the GPS cord, connected the correct wires together, plugged the USB plug into one of those cigarette lighter USB supplies, and had my GPS back.