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Mike Dodd[_3_]

wrote:

Battery charging has nothing to do with climate change. However
efficient it gets isnt going to make the remotest difference, even if
you do believe the ecobollox. Apply some numbers and you'll quickly
see why - its like saying one biscuit would feed a starving nation..

Maybe not battery charging, but battery chargers... Think of the amount
of copper, iron and plastic in a cheap transformer based mobile phone
charger - for each, undoubtably more than in the actual phone.

I'm a hoarder. On a shelf behind me at the moment I've a box with about
25-30 chargers of various descriptions, all redundant, that will
eventually become land-fill. A single point charger could have halved
that number.