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Re: Rechargeable Batteries - with correct link :)
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Sat, 5 Jul 2003 22:08:23 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Lars Gjerløw Jørgensen wrote:
Yep - that is what I mean too - sorry if I wasn't clear
about it  :)  In Denmark the old type of non-rechargeable
batteries are called "brunsten" which translated gives
"brownstone". I don't know the proper english term, but
has found them called regular. They are made of a carbon
stick with a zinc powder mix.

     Those would be known as "carbon-zinc" batteries.  We tend to name our
battery types based on what chemicals are used to store/provide power.  I'm not
sure you can even buy them in the standard letter-graded battery types anymore.
Certainly not from major companies like Duracell or Energizer.

As far as I know Lithium Ion batteries are even better
in this area. That's the kind used in both my digicam
and my mobile phone, but if bought in aa or aaa sizes
they are really really expensive  ;(

     LI batteries also have the huge drawback that they require a complicated
power-management system to recharge them, which is why rechargable LI batteries
are usually left to stuff like laptop computers and video cameras, which are big
enough to hold onboard power-management systems.



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  Re: Rechargeable Batteries - with correct link :)
 
Peter Newman's utterance expressed in news:Law11-OE61ygIDd...tmail.com: (...) Yep - that is what I mean too - sorry if I wasn't clear about it :) In Denmark the old type of non-rechargeable batteries are called "brunsten" which translated gives (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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