Supposedly disposable Alkaline batteries that are still very present in ou daily lives are not really single-use batteries.
Karl Kordesch, one of the inventors of the alkaline battery, demonstrated in the early 1980’s that these batteries could actually be regenerated. Had we followed his guidelines, we probably could have significantly reduced the amount of electronic waste produced by alkaline batteries as well as as their environmental impact by now. In our context of changing legislation on planned obsolescence, now seems to be the perfect time for the paleo-energetic team to investigate the real regenerability of these innefficient batteries (an alkaline battery requires about 50 times more energy for its manufacture than it will deliver in use) thus giving a new birth to the topic of alkaline batteries’ re-usability.
Discover the first project coming from Paleo-Energetique research
