As a society we're moving more and more towards electric power for everything. We now have electric cars, bikes, soon we'll have electric semi trucks, there are even entire homes that have gone off grid and live off battery power alone. This does make me wonder about battery degradation and the environmental impact of our reliance on these batteries. I remember when I was a kid that I used to have a remote control car which used nickel cadmium batteries. These were absolutely rubbish in terms of performance and battery life compared to today's tech but it did highlight the shortfalls of rechargeable batteries. They'd last a few months and before I knew it, the car's run time would be down to minutes before dying, and the batteries would need to be replaced. Now this isn't such a bit issue nowadays, but it is still something I've been wondering about. It's no secret that phone batteries for example degrade over time, reducing their energy holding capacity to the point of needing replacement.
And what about the bigger stuff? We have cars that run on batteries and although I'm sure those batteries are conditioned to the nth degree to keep their vitals up, they will still degrade over time.
So what happens to these dying batteries? What's the life expectancy of today's tech, and where to next?
Just thinking out loud a bit here, I'm rather curious where we're going to go from here and whether our reliance on batteries is sustainable in the long run.
And what about the bigger stuff? We have cars that run on batteries and although I'm sure those batteries are conditioned to the nth degree to keep their vitals up, they will still degrade over time.
So what happens to these dying batteries? What's the life expectancy of today's tech, and where to next?
Just thinking out loud a bit here, I'm rather curious where we're going to go from here and whether our reliance on batteries is sustainable in the long run.
