Travis
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>Is anyone here considering how absolutely toxic cadmium & lithium are?
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>Cadmium poisoning
>>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
> Cadmium poisoning
> ICD-10 code:
> ICD-9 code: 985.5
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>Cadmium is one of the few elements that has no constructive purpose
>in the human body. This element and solutions of its compounds are
>extremely toxic even in low concentrations, and will bioaccumulate in
>organisms and ecosystems.
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmium_poisoning
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>Zero constructive purpose in our bodies, or our lives and environment.
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>Lithium? Well, not only is it seriously toxic (in medical preparations too),
>but spontaneously combusts when exposed to... air.
>www.fas.org/nuke/intro/nuke/lithium.htm
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>How about a battery factory YOUR backyard?
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>That part of battery technology is the area most likely to be the joykiller,
>and except for a few forays into mercury/cadmium free batteries (they
>were crap), the battery industry is progressively more toxic every day.
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>It's ok, the factories that make them are in 3rd world countries whose
>leaders would be glad to toxify their nation if the price is right.
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>Also, what to do with the millions of absolutely deadly toxic spent batteries.
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>Handle them like nuclear waste? That would be lovely.
>With the same amount of oversight, I'm sure.
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>No wishful thinking please, just solutions that can be actualized at a
>worldwide level within the next ten to thirty years...
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>So little time.
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>So few original ideas.
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>Leigh
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