Energizer, 2007

[mishoo]

From http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=7

Very large print, 60x99'

Depicts 170,000 disposable Energizer batteries, equal to fifteen minutes of Energizer battery production.

Partial zoom:

Detail at actual print size:

If 170,000 batteries were depicted at their real size, the print would need to be 26x43 feet, as shown here. To depict one year of Energizer disposable battery production (six billion batteries) would require a print 26 feet high by 146 miles long.

 

[Buck91]

That's not really cool, man.

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[GarageBoy]

Yeah, what a waste of metal

 

[Lightingguy321]

I say we still recycle them regardless, that is a waste of a lot of metal (170,000 batteries at about 0.8oz a piece= 136000oz =8500 pounds of metal)

 

[Bones]

From http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=7

Very large print, 60x99'

Depicts 170,000 disposable Energizer batteries, equal to fifteen minutes of Energizer battery production.
...

If 170,000 batteries were depicted at their real size, the print would need to be 26x43 feet, as shown here. To depict one year of Energizer disposable battery production (six billion batteries) would require a print 26 feet high by 146 miles long.

So, to summerize:

Energizer has dropped their recycling program.

They have yet to introduce a low self-discharge cell.

Virtually their total production of 2500mAh NiMH cells, which are still being marketed in untold numbers as their primary rechargeable, are suffering grossly permature failure due to rapid self-discharge.

The untold numbers of consumers who purchase those 2500mAh NiMH cells are very likely turning away from rechargeables because they believe their experience with the Energizer brand is typical.

They truly are a 'one corporation wrecking crew' in the rechargeable world.

 

[TorchBoy]

... primary rechargeable ...
The untold numbers of consumers who purchase those 2500mAh NiMH cells are very likely turning away from rechargeables because they believe their experience with the Energizer brand is typical.

Primary rechargeable. Ha ha.

I noticed their web site home page a couple of days ago was plugging lithium primary cells as the ideal solution for digital cameras. That fits perfectly with their poor quality NiMH cells as far as market focus goes. If they can get people off rechargeables and keep them on primary cells for as long as possible they stand to make much more money. That's understandable - any business wants to make as much profit as they can - but making money at the expense of the environment isn't very PC these days. Their lack of LSD NiMH cells and their lack of a recycling program really doesn't make for an environmentally friendly or socially responsible company. :thumbsdow

 

[Bones]

Primary rechargeable. Ha ha.

It saddens me to say that I never even picked up on the word play until you pointed it out TorchBoy.

I have to learn to ramp down my intensity when it comes to the Energizer corporation.

Of course, this thought was immediately followed by another. Wasn't Energizer the first to market with a 15 minute charger?

You know, the ones that will slash the cycle life of cells by 50 to 75 percent if used fairly exclusively...

 

[TorchBoy]

LOL (again). It's really clever - my sense of nerd humour maybe. :shakehead

You know, the ones that will slash the cycle life of cells by 50 to 75 percent if used fairly exclusively...

That's brilliant, both thinking of it (you might even be more cynical than I am) and as a marketing strategy.