Comments on: Green Cell battery concept http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20080303/green-cell-battery-concept/ Playing with cool gadgets in the ongoing search for the Coolest Gadget Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:53:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Ian Kemmish http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20080303/green-cell-battery-concept/comment-page-1/#comment-331021 Ian Kemmish Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:44:30 +0000 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20080303/green-cell-battery-concept/#comment-331021 If you want a green battery, you'll probably need to invest several dozens of man years of effort by chemists and engineers in the project, and not a back-of-a-cigarette-packet sketch by a someone who just wants to win a competition for the best vapourware. In the meantime, just pop your old mobile phone in the post to Fonebak (or whatever the equivalent is in your country) where it will either be shipped off to Africa or have the raw materials recycled. Over here, most of the telecoms operators will send you a prepaid Fonebak envelope on request. If you want a green battery, you’ll probably need to invest several dozens of man years of effort by chemists and engineers in the project, and not a back-of-a-cigarette-packet sketch by a someone who just wants to win a competition for the best vapourware.

In the meantime, just pop your old mobile phone in the post to Fonebak (or whatever the equivalent is in your country) where it will either be shipped off to Africa or have the raw materials recycled. Over here, most of the telecoms operators will send you a prepaid Fonebak envelope on request.

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