Kirk Unfortunately over the past 30 to 40 years Built in obsolescence and greed has become a huge industry.
Why would a company make ( in this case batteries) that last forever ? they would consider that a bad deal for future sales. When in reality if you produce a product that lasts for as long as possible more people would purchase the product and you would probable make far more money corporate industry is more interested in Domination of the market place rather than conserving resources. I used to do Leather work for years belts, dog leashes, leather sandals, Coin Purses, etc my ethic was to do myself out of a job and produce the best product I could for the cheapest price that would last the longest period of time. ( Arthritis got me instead ) When I stopped doing leather work 20 years ago ( still have all my tools though) I used to do it in our shopping centers we a group of craft people got together and made and sold our wares to attract people into the shopping centers we made money and so did the other shop owners I still have people calling me 20 years later asking if I could sell them more belts if the locals see me They ask if they can get another coat of dye on the belt to freshen it up which I usually do for free , If our society changed from thinking about self all the time and thinking from a wholistic approach the world would be a far better place. At 09:58 AM 6/08/2012 -0700, you wrote: >Some of Edison's cells are in use a century later. Nickel iron >battery for stationary use - superior to lead acid in transportation as well. >But the life! Why are things built to be replaced so soon? >Something wrong about leaving a set of batteries to your grand-kids? >-K > >You learn from your mistakes...Today I hope not to learn_too_ much. > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
