If you’re reading this on a laptop right now, you’re probably well aware of how fast your battery drains as you’re sitting there. And it probably bothers you when you need to make an important phone call, and your battery in your cell dies just as you’re dialing. Yes, batteries most likely are the bane of your technological existence, and Newsweek wants you to know that you’re not alone. In a world where everything is going more and more high-tech, battery power is lagging far behind, and has become a drain (haHA!) on the environment.
Computer chips double in speed every two years—your current BlackBerry is as powerful as your desktop computer once was—but the batteries powering those devices are improving by only about 8 percent a year.
If we’re ever going to ever get around to using a large quantity of renewable and alternative energy sources, battery technology is going to have to do a lot better than that. Batteries will be essential to storing excess wind or solar power.
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If you work hard enough, you can pretty much recycle anything these days. The trick is knowing where to go with your batteries, cell phones, smoke detectors, televisions, pesticides, nuclear waste, antifreeze, and so forth and so on. Lucky for us, 
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