Reduce Landfill Heavy Metals from 50%-70%

DAMAGE FROM COMMON HOUSEHOLD BATTERIES

Mountain Equipment Coop's website and hand-out literature alleges that "small household batteries" (e.g. alkaline AA cells) cause 50%-70% of all heavy metals in landfills. As you may have read in the non-fiction (Pulitzer-nominated) book, "A Civil Action", all landfills will eventually leach its toxic waste into the water table, and sadly, into our future drinking water.

Research in "Murder City", Detroit, Michigan revealed that cadmium, lead, and other heavy metals are found in large blobs in the Detroit River, where the inner city gets its drinking water. Buffalo, NY, another "murder city" also grabs its city right from Lake Erie, with only basic treatment.

There are scholarly books linking heavy metals to psychotic, criminal, and anti-social behaviour.

REVIVING SMALL HOUSEHOLD BATTERIES

Matthies can revive these batteries for the cost of labour, only, estimated at 100 units/hour, or, at $10/hr, 10 cents a battery, before overhead. A 9V "no name" battery can retails at $10 for 24, or 41 cents. A "brand name" industrial 9V battery retails for five dollars each. Matthies guarantees his revived 9V alkaline batteries for one years' use.

REVIVING LARGE MOTIVE BATTERIES

Matthies received TV and print media coverage after he restored an all-electric pickup truck and ran it with a motley mix of old, and revived, "dead" batteries. The media frenzy occurred because Matthies broke the "rule" that batteries in an electric vehicle must be the same size, the same chemistry, and internal resistance, and preferably, from the same batch from the factory.

http://tv-news-revived-batteries.blogspot.com/ http://solarpowerfun.blogspot.com/

REVIVED BATTERY CENTRES in EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD

In these hard economic times, Matthies envisions a "battery revival centre" in every neighborhood, the same way we now see, "Block Parent" signs in many neighborhood. Instead of the municipalities spending time and money to truck dead batteries for burial in Texas, we could revive a substantial portion of these batteries, and put them back immediately in the hands of users.

POSSIBLE REVENUE-NEUTRAL FUNDING SOURCES

A "business enterprise model" is one vision. A "franchise" would consist of a home-based entrepreneur, who would purchase an operations manual and equipment, for $2,995 for a neighborhood operation. Anybody with a shed, or garage, can run a Neighborhood Battery Centre. The "Neighborhood Battery Centre Operator" (entrepreneur) should be able to recoup his investment within three years, on a worst case basis.

These battery revival centres would use the "battery exchange club" model, charging either a fixed membership fee; or, if fully subsidized, at no charge; or, a per-unit charge approximately 1/3 that of the lowest retail prices.

A second income for the Neighborhood Battery Centre Operator will come from festival and community event performance, as has been done, in Vancouver, by Matthies' "Solar Power Roadshow", where battery-magic and revived battery giveaway, are integrated in "edu-tainment".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nPHJI6cyXQ http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2359948/135hrbatteryrejuvenationmagicshowvan\ couverfamilyfestival/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQhy12C39gc

Canada Member of Parliament Libby Davies and Rob Matthies Magic Show http://www.viddler.com/explore/WE-ENTERTAIN/videos/9/

WHAT WOULD CHANGE?

It is anticipated that battery manufacturing companies, chemical, and metal recycling corporations would receive less income. Because fewer (relatively heavy) batteries would be transported, less oil would be consumed. Less energy would be required, because each "AA" battery typically requires 50X the energy, to make them, than the batteries actually give out, under use.

WHO ELSE HAS SEEN/TESTED/PROVEN ROB MATTHIES' REVIVED BATTERIES?

Member of the media, including Larry Wright, from a Burnaby newspaper. http://revived-battery-truck.blogspot.com/

Global TV news http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzIMq9JdbfA

CBC TV "Newsworld" http://tinyurl.com/d92ao2

Chinese TV news http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVCqsx7s5yM

Matthies' "revived battery electric pickup" and his Solar Power Roadshow have received kudzus from the Mayor of West Vancouver, Libby Davies MP, the North Vancouver mayor, Jenny Kwan MP, North Vancouver city council, et al. The devices used by Solar Power Roadshow at numerous festival are run with "revived batteries".

http://www.viddler.com/explore/WE-ENTERTAIN/videos/9/ http://www.vimeo.com/1686546

http://photo.livevideo.com/photo/west-van-mayor_695CD4D1EC3D439ABD25C707160C9869\ .aspx

or http://tinyurl.com/bq7f4t

http://photo.livevideo.com/photo/9D395_A75DB7626D284A798729C2F7C319D395.aspx or http://tinyurl.com/d3athk

. From: R. Matthies, Vancouver, BC 126 W. 3rd St,#38682, N. Vancouver, BC, V7M 3N1 phone 6 0 4 - 5 1 2 - 9 5 6 7

matthiesr @ yahoo dot ca

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