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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 (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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