Lithium .....Pahhh

[mistericeman]

2024: Scientists and engineers produce world's first carbon-14 diamond battery with po | Cabot Institute for the Environment | University of Bristol

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[trevskoda]

Looks like everyready is out of the game.

 

[mistericeman]

Looks like everyready is out of the game.

Surely you'll still be buying them Trev ....

Used to make me smile at Christmas time as a kid when some distant relative bought you some battery operated game that came with
'Eveready' batteries in it ....

 

[trevskoda]

Surely you'll still be buying them Trev ....

Used to make me smile at Christmas time as a kid when some distant relative bought you some battery operated game that came with
'Eveready' batteries in it ....

Yep & parents went bonkers saying why the hell people buy these for our kids which will cost us money to replace, wish they had bought you a new pair of shorts or something sensable.

 

[colinm]

If you use 100Ah per day you'd 'only' need 288,000 carbon14 batteries.

 

[mistericeman]

If you use 100Ah per day you'd 'only' need 288,000 carbon14 batteries.

Surely you remember having to take glass accumulators to be charged and only being able to buy Benzine (petrol) from chemist's .....

 

[Topmast]

Surely you remember having to take glass accumulators to be charged and only being able to buy Benzine (petrol) from chemist's .....

I certainly remember taking glass accumulators to the shop for recharging.And buying oil in tall glass bottles,o happy days,!

 

[alcam]

I certainly remember taking glass accumulators to the shop for recharging.And buying oil in tall glass bottles,o happy days,!

I'm 75 don't ever remember that

 

[trevskoda]

I'm 75 don't ever remember that

They had glass accums here in the country for lights on farms and to run the old valve radio, i know where there is some in a old disused farm building, think they used a single cyl lister to charge them through the day.

 

[maingate]

They had glass accums here in the country for lights on farms and to run the old valve radio, i know where there is some in a old disused farm building, think they used a single cyl lister to charge them through the day.

I used to power our Cottage with a 1937 Lister Generator. Single cylinder, 650 RPM. No water pump, just a heavy steel jacket with natural circulation fed by a 90 gallon water tank. I bought it around 1976 and spares were still available over the counter from British Engines in Wallsend.

 

[mistericeman]

I used to power our Cottage with a 1937 Lister Generator. Single cylinder, 650 RPM. No water pump, just a heavy steel jacket with natural circulation fed by a 90 gallon water tank. I bought it around 1976 and spares were still available over the counter from British Engines in Wallsend.

This was a Genset outside a croft/farm up near to Ockle on Ardnamurchan ....

 

[merl]

I've never witnessed taking accumulators (nickel ferrous batteries) to be charged myself but my dad who was a very early adopter of valve radios told me all about them when I discovered several glass accumulators in his garage during a clear out just before he died.
Apparently he'd have 2 accumulators so that he could still use the radio while the other was away being charged. A charge would last about a week so every weekend he'd cycle about 4 miles with his accumulator drop it off and pick his second one up and repeat again the following week. As radios became more popular this recharging schedule opened up another business opportunity for the cunning entrepreneur, a guy would come around on HIS bike and collect and drop off batteries for multiple people in the village thus creating a 'round'.
The whole thing came to a sudden end when villages and towns were electrified enabling people to charge their own batteries.
Wonder what they'd make of campervan with several hundred watts of solar panels on the roof, lithium batteries and inverters Actually wonder what they'd make of the internet and smartphones

 

[trevskoda]

A cottage i bougt many years back had a old wooden boat turned upsidedown on some stones about 2ft in the air, ask a local about it and he told me the old chap who lived there had a genny and charged batteries for locals radio sets, house was in Island magee across from larne, made a good proffit on the sale of it.

 

[Topmast]

I'm 75 don't ever remember that

O to be that young again.