{"id":285,"date":"2008-10-14T19:35:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T02:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=285"},"modified":"2008-10-14T19:35:14","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T02:35:14","slug":"the-economics-of-rechargable-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2008\/10\/the-economics-of-rechargable-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Thoughts: brother can you spare $0.0036?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tough economic times? Take 1.2 volt, 2.5 Amp\/hr NiMH batteries (technically “cells”). Call it 3 W\/hrs of energy each. The going electricity rate here is about $0.15\/KW-hr. Thus fully charging four batteries with a 50% efficient charger costs approximately $0.0036.<\/p>\n

More collected Geek Thoughts at http:\/\/geekthoughts<\/a>.info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tough economic times? Take 1.2 volt, 2.5 Amp\/hr NiMH batteries (technically “cells”). Call it 3 W\/hrs of energy each. The going electricity rate here is about $0.15\/KW-hr. Thus fully charging four batteries with a 50% efficient charger costs approximately $0.0036. More collected Geek Thoughts at http:\/\/geekthoughts.info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[284],"tags":[456,298,1179,457],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekthoughts","tag-batteries","tag-energy","tag-geekthoughts","tag-rechargable"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-4B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}