Rechargeable Batteries & YOURSELF

In a previous post I wrote about caring for your media during the summer months. This is a brief reminder that there is something you can do to extend battery life all year long.

I want to direct your attention to www.batteryuniversity.com. There is much to be learned about batteries and much of our overly convenient life depends on them.

In a previous incarnation I was a dedicated explorer of the earth's nether regions. I had grown up (in some areas of my life) in an area of natural and man-made caves and mines and was fully aware of the dangers that dwelt BELOW.

I sometimes wore carbide lamps on my head. I also had some battery powered lanterns. It is amazing to reflect on how much my life and the life of my climbing partners depended on the batteries and the tiny and fragile elements inside the little lamps inside our flashlights.

We had backups and backups of backups, but, like the rivets of the Titanic, they could all have been of poor manufacture and all of them could have failed.

Unless you have been in the dark of a 3 mile descent on rope, pitons and have squeezed through holes lubricated with thousands of years of foggy cave dew and slime and slept and awakened without light and known the only “down” was the gravity of your rear on the floor of the cave and “up” was where you were determined to return – you could not know this “dark side of the moon” experience.

I was glad to do this, I saw hand prints left hundreds or thousands of years ago. I saw ancient streams and I saw light and the end of the tunnel we had successfully climbed.

Warm food and green grass and a hot shower were the rewards of surviving. Yes, I did it more than once.

Yep – you don't want your batteries to fail. You want your alkaline and rechargeable batteries to have the greatest life possible.

And you want to live as well.

Recharge your batteries and find ways to recharge yourself. Maybe that downward trip is a good trip inside.

Hmmm.

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