Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/03/11/do-not-burn-old-flashlight-bat.html
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Probably wasn’t the best advice even then but perhaps marginally better for the environment than landfill.
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Burning NiCad batteries are environmentally regrettable. Burning LiPo batteries are “get a new house”.
We’re pushing the limits of battery tech. Don’t fuck around with them.
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agreed, the new ones, especially LiPo are so much more exciting
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Well that seals it then, this Radio Shack Battery Club card is totally useless if I can’t even burn these crappy carbon batteries in the fire!
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See, now I want to go and test that.
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Keep a bucket of sand handy. Not child-safe toys.
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And this is why God invented YouTube.
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But how will I keep my home shipshape?
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Eugh. “May help prevent soot formation”. How wishy-washy. I hope Popular Science rose above such frippery.
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My father always used to pull apart old zinc-carbon batteries, and put the zinc and carbon on the coal fire. He did it to avoid having to sweep the chimney. I can’t see how such a tiny amount of material could clean a whole chimney, and he was a scientist, so I doubt if it convinced him either. We usually burned phurnacite which was not supposed to give as much soot anyhow. I cannot remember our chimney ever being swept.
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Do not burn old flashlight batteries
Don’t tell me what to do
/explosion
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Can we get an “oddlyspecificadmonishments” tag for future posts?
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I kept my LiPos in a little besa block house in the shed, with a single tile roof.
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