Post #1415152
2026-04-11 20:26 UTC
@feld You can get 5x as many cycles from the LiFePo ones. That's an 80% reduction in environmental damage, labor exploitation and toxic waste. And as a bonus it means I can potentially wait 10 years before I have to go through the tedium of battery shopping again.
My share of the collective responsibility is pretty small in this case but it's not nothing and if I can reduce the damage and extend the life of the object, then I'm happy to do that even if it goes against the conventional wisdom a lot of us grew up with.
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@feld@friedcheese.us 2026-04-11 20:28
@praxeology but you don't reduce the damage by not buying something that already exists. You're coming at this from a false premise. The batteries were made, the damage is done. Someone has to use them. Either way, they end up in a landfill or get responsibly recycled.