Is it cheaper to recharge AA bateries or buy new ones .bearing in mind elect production fuels ect green house?

Question

effect and battery production and disposal effects.

Answer 1

you cant even recycle them cause its too expensive. buy a recharger and rechargeable ones. that way is greener :]

Answer 2

yh because  if u ever need them.

and if you use baterie powed eletrics u save the  planet

Answer 3

I think its probably cheaper all round (both the cost to the pocket and to the environment) to recharge.  OK using the electricity to recharge costs and creates greenhouse gasses (unless your local power station runs on wind turbines) but AA batteries are not recyclable and so go to landfill where they will take years to rot and dump god-knows-what acid into the ground.

Answer 4

Yes it is cheaper to recharge the batteries and better for the environment as the creation of new batteries requires the sourcing of all the component parts and the carbon footprint involved in the process of shipping them to the correct place, manufacturing them into batteries and charging them.

People bang on about only being able to recharge rechargable batteries. They are very wrong.

Ordinary batteries are actually rechargeable but it is important you don't try and do it in an ordinary charger as different voltages and voltage cycles are required. You will find, once you source or build a dediacted charger, they actually recharge better than supposed rechargeable batteries and do not suffer so much from the voltage memory/capacity issues of the cheaper/older type rechargeables.

Answer 5

You can only recharge batteries that are intended to be recharged.  When you recharge a battery you are merely shifting the effects of disposal to the pollution generated at the source of electric production.  A similar situation is the use of 'hybrid' cars, which rely on a rechargable battery to supply some of its power.  The net result is a shift in the pollution from the engine emissions to the emissions at the electric generating facility.

Given the initial higher cost of a rechargable battery, in the immediacy a rechargable battery is much more expensive, so much so that the total cost over its lifetime may exceed that of non-rechargables.  An example is a cell phone battery that might cost $70 new and lasts maybe 2 years; it would take a lot of non-rechargables to exceed this cost.

Answer 6

I don't think that cheaper or dearer is the issue here.

First of all, it surely must be better for the environment to re-use the batteries that you have.  It saves them ending up in a landfill somewhere.  Recharging a battery is of minimal consumption, so pretty good, green-wise.

But the real point is convenience.  Most of us, even if it is environmentally friendly but not convenient will opt for the convenient option.  Recharging, I believe, is not only convenient, it is also the better 'green' option.

If you can't re-use, then recycle.  If you can't recycle, then you are probably using the wrong thing.

And I suppose that if you really want to be 'green' then you wouldn't use electricity or battery power at all.

Answer 7

recharge

Answer 8

it is cheaper but when you recharge it won't go back up to its 100% capacity anymore, it'll go to 99% and then the next time it'll go to 98% and until u reach a point where you say it aint worth it anymore.Don't worry about green house gasses now when your talkin about batteries