CH>  On Friday September 06 1996, Roy J. Tellason of (1:270/615)
 CH> wrote to Chris Harper:
 RJT> Yup,  all you need to do now is find an old lawnmower that uses a V-8!
 RJT> :-)
 CH> I live next door to Wilson, who lives next door to Tim
 CH> Allen!  ;-)
 CH> Origin: The Grizzly BBS, Wadsworth, OH, USA
Did they move Ohio to Michigan when I wasn't paying attention?  :-)
 RJT> From what I understand,  battery mfr's like Exide have smelters to
 RJT> recycle the materials from junk batteries that come in,  and 
 RJT> everything I've heard about those places says that they're 
 RJT> rather *nasty*.  Not something that an individual would do well 
 RJT> trying to set up.  And,  they shut 'em down during the middle 
 RJT> of the summer.
 CH> Exide and large companies like it are doing rather large 
 CH> quantities, and are profit motivated, without reguard to the 
 CH> envirnoment. 
Wrong!  Exide uses about 80 percent recycled materials in the manufacture of 
their new batteries,  and it's their intention to push this to 100 percent 
after a while.  Lead mines are a real environmental problem,  particularly in 
some towns in Colorado where the runoff after a rainstorm ends up with 
putting lead into the drinking water...
I believe that Exide and the other manufacturers involved in the use of 
products such as batteries which contain toxic materials such as lead are, 
for the most part,  *very* environmentally conscious.
What do you base that statement on?
 CH> I would just set up a still to split the water and acid from 
 CH> each other, as well as anything dissolved into it, and re-sell 
 CH> the acid to battery makers or chemical companies. Maybe use 
 CH> some myself for making my own batteries. 
That should be interesting,  what materials were you planning to use to 
construct this,  which would be resistant to sulfuric acid fumes?  I sure 
hope that none of the environmental government agencies are reading this,  or 
you may end up getting a visit you're *not* gonna enjoy...
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