Battery News
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15, Aug, 2022
Forbes Health Announces Best Hearing Aid Batteries of 2022
The best batteries on the market!
Forbes, one of the leading business and finance publications, has recently released their top picks for hearing aid batteries. Hearing aid batteries are ranked by many qualities such as service life, materials quality, and audio quality (stability)
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01, Nov, 2020
Batteries and the environment: How To Dispose of Batteries
The importance of proper battery disposal
The average person throws away 8 batteries per year. Collectively, we dispose of over 3 billion batteries annually in the United States. According to Science Direct, the UK, with one-fifth of the US population, generates 30,000 tons of wasted general purpose batteries annually. Less than 2–3 percent of them are recycled. The interaction of the chemical constructs of these wasted batteries poses a threat to the environment.The availability of the nickel metal hydride battery played a crucial role in facilitating Europe’s banning of the nickel-cadmium battery in the EEC’s Battery Directive of 2009. Nickel-cadmium batteries (Ni-CD) along with lead-acid batteries currently represent the greatest environmental threat from energy storage devices. Lithium batteries are, to the surprise of some, quickly following suit. Lithium-ion batteries may be only mildly toxic, but factors including their size, sheer number, and their improper disposal, contribute to their addition to the list of polluting battery chemistries.
To be clear, the problem is not a particular battery chemistry. The issue is its disposal.
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18, Oct, 2020
Primary battery options and a look at lithium batteries
A LOOK AT LITHIUM BATTERIES
In a prior article, Battery categories and chemistries, we discussed the two battery categories, primary batteries and secondary batteries, with a brief summary of the common batteries in each group. We focused on alkaline batteries in our post, Role of primary batteries, and presented the broad family of lithium-metal cells, which together with alkalines, dominate primary batteries in both popularity and usage.n this article we will take a closer look at primary battery types and delve just a bit more in some of the more recognized lithium chemistries available. Excluded from this post are three primary battery types that serve niche applications—zinc-air batteries mainly used to power hearing-assisted devices, silver-oxide batteries mainly used for watches, and zinc-carbon batteries which were superseded by alkalines in the 1980s but are still available for specialized needs. Available links to discussions on these batteries can be found at the end of this post.
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16, Oct, 2020
Protect Your Children: Microbattery.com Offers Child-Safe Battery Packaging
Battery Hazards for Children
Batteries pose a variety of hazards to children including choking, toxicity, electric shock, and burns. There are thousands of different batteries on the market and all contain a variety of chemical agents. They come in various shapes and sizes, ranging from giant bricks to tiny cylinders. One of the most dangerous types of battery for children are lithium coin cell batteries, which are quickly becoming very popular among manufacturers due to their relatively small size and high performance. Being able to power a device with such a small battery is great and convenient for manufacturers and for users, but these batteries becoming so small pose a serious risk for children. The round shape of lithium coin cells and shiny metallic finish can be mistaken for a piece of candy or small food item by a child. Ingestion of a lithium coin cell battery can sometimes not be an issue as they can normally be passed through the system with little issue. In many instances, complications can occur which can be very serious and life threatening. The biggest hazard is the battery being logged in the esophagus, causing choking or even serious burns. If you suspect a child has ingested a battery or any other non-food item it is best to seek professional medical attention right away.
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08, Oct, 2020
Battery safety part 1: Preventing harm to yourself and others
PREVENTING HARM
I can remember hammering on a C-cell after an unsuccessful attempt to pry it open with a screwdriver. It was the 1970’s, and like most kids in their single-digit years, I was curious. I had no clue that my forceful attempt to discover what lies inside could result in a painful experience. Spring forward to 2020, I wonder if the potential hazard would have been recognized even by the average adult; awareness of existing dangers lurking in everyday products does not seem to have been quite as widespread then as it is now.With today’s variation in battery compositions, it is important that we understand some of the hazards posed by their modern chemistries and some precautionary measures against them. My brute force attempt to open what I am guessing was either a zinc-carbon or an alkaline battery, might have been met with dire consequences had it been one of today’s battery chemistries.
Let’s take a look at a few battery types with regard to safety.
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08, Oct, 2020
Battery safety part 2: Protecting our children from potentially lethal accidents
PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN
In the United States alone, 2,800 kids require emergency treatment for swallowing button batteries annually. That breaks down to approximately one child every three hours. In 2017, there were 1,986 ingested battery cases involving children under 6 years of age. I recently viewed a heartbreaking video published by Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) about a Hampshire toddler, Francesca Asan, who tragically died from ingesting a button battery from a pair of 3D glasses stored in a cabinet.With the development of more advanced battery chemistries and more batteries in the home to power our gadgets, serious injuries and deaths from their ingestion have multiplied by nine times in the last decade.
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18, Aug, 2020
The Ultimate Guide To Hearing Aid Batteries
Hearing aid batteries typically come in 4 basic designations of sizes. The difference between different models of hearing aid batteries come from their physical size as well as the power and output of the battery. The 4 main sizes of hearing aid batteries are Size 10, Size 13, Size 312, and Size 675. Hearing aid batteries are conveniently color coded in order to easily identify the size of the battery.
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05, Aug, 2020
How To Change Watch Batteries: A Step By Step Guide
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08, Apr, 2020
The LR41 Battery: An Essential Item in a Time of Crisis
The LR41 Battery: An Essential Item in a Time of Crisis
The LR41 Battery is a fairly popular small button cell style battery that is very commonly used in small consumer devices. The LR41 is made by a
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27, Feb, 2020
Graphene Batteries: The future of rechargeable battery technology is here today!
Graphene Batteries: The future of rechargeable battery technology is here today!
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02, Jan, 2019
New Electric Honda Electric Vehicle Concepts Tokyo Motor Show 4 - Fully Charged
New Electric Honda Electric Vehicle Concepts Tokyo Motor Show 4 - Fully Charged
Honda Electric Dream. After years spent in the electric car wilderness, Honda release a brilliant production-ready electric city car and an awe-inspiring electric sports car