| When one stops to consider the number of machines, | | | | role in the alternative power movement and the shift |
| gadgets and devises that we have come to depend | | | | toward renewable and green power sources. Todays |
| on to get us through our day, the mind boggles. Here in | | | | electrical powered or hybrid cars rely on speciality |
| Ontario, we are a little paranoid when it comes to | | | | batteries to store the electrical power that runs the |
| electrical power. The news media and consumers alike | | | | car. Solar panels, that use the sun as a source of |
| carefully track the rising price of electricity. We are | | | | power, utilize batteries to store the power collect for |
| concerned about the future cost of electricity and we | | | | future use. Windmills, that derive power from the wind, |
| are worried that Ontario Power Generation will not be | | | | also store the power it generates with batteries. |
| able to produce enough to meet all the needs of the | | | | There are as many different sizes and different types |
| province. With our fixation on electricity, sometimes we | | | | of batteries such as coin, lithium-ion, alkaline and |
| fail to consider how much we depend on batteries to | | | | rechargeable batteries, as there are applications for |
| provide both a primary source and supplemental | | | | their use. It seems like, that for every battery-operated |
| source of power throughout our daily lives. | | | | appliance there is a specialty battery made just for |
| It would be difficult to find a home that did not have at | | | | that product. Sometimes it seems like you have every |
| least one battery-powered device. Over the last | | | | single battery except the one that you require. |
| hundred years we have depended on batteries. For | | | | Our need for batteries is so great that there are now |
| decades we have been using batteries to help start | | | | companies who deal exclusively in batteries. Due to |
| our cars, illuminate our flashlights, and run our | | | | our reliance on batteries, finding a quality battery store |
| battery-operated toys. Battery operated transistor | | | | is crucial. Some key factors to keep in mind when |
| radios were the iPods of the sixties. Today, batteries | | | | finding a battery are: the size of the store, variety and |
| are used as a power source for an ever-growing | | | | types of batteries that are stocked in the store, good |
| range of products and devices. All the modern-day | | | | value/pricing, hassle-free ordering, and satisfaction |
| gadgets that we have come to depend on for work | | | | guarantees. An added benefit of a quality battery |
| and play, our cell phones, iPods, Blackberries, power | | | | store is their ability to locate unusual special order |
| tools, camcorders, cameras, watches and much more, | | | | products. |
| all require batteries to run. | | | | Our dependency on batteries is greater today than |
| Manufactured with a limited life span and containing | | | | ever before. They power much of our lives, and their |
| caustic material, and by their very nature, not highly | | | | applications will continue to expand, increasingly |
| recyclable, batteries do not have a great reputation | | | | reaching into every aspect of modern life. |
| with environmentalists. However, batteries play a major | | | | |