Frazz by Jef Mallett for July 17, 2020

As long as we have electric vehicles, (and not some form of turning Hydrogen into electricity on the fly) at least some people will know what a battery is.

One real possibility, in a science fictional sort of way, is that Hydrogen fusion may possibly be used to directly create electrons… and thus electricity.

Or how close we are to having phones surgically implanted at birth.

Bill Kirchen recorded a song titled “Swing Fever”

“…had a double macchiata and a big pot of tea and i’m sittin’ here buzzin’ like a cheap tv…”

I wonder if my granddaughters – 12 and 14 – would have ANY idea what that means?

Excuse me — WHAT’S not included??

Before there was the Eveready Bunny, there was the Eveready Cat with 9 lives.

Batteries (rechargeable) are a bigger topic of conversation now than they have ever been. Car battery capacity (ev), bike battery capacity, gigafactories, grid storage, long life rechargeable dry-cell replacements for torches, weather stations, etc etc

As long as you can still buy LP’s (it’s been about 70 years so far) that’s how long some form of battery will last. Like all the old stuff (me included), they’ll still be somewhat useful!

Well, they still have lots of batteries at WalMart. So they must be useful for something. The trick with recharging is not so much in the transformer end as in the connecting end.

Ok someone help me here. The coke can just shines like a beacon. Mallett didn’t just plant it there as a conversation piece. What gives…

I have a transistor radio from the 60’s that uses 9V. Still works, am only and no stereo. It has no ICs, all discrete components packed into a case about the size of a pack of cigarettes. A cute little earpiece packed into a bag is hanging from the carry loop.

As long as there are TV remotes….anybody think TVs going away in the next 100 years?

Hey! I know what a battery is, and I’m reasonably young!

As long as they’re still needed for TV remotes and game controllers, kids will still know what batteries are…

Smoke alarms. My Portastudio plugs in, but also uses plain A batteries so you don’t have to plug it in.

Batteries don’t look like they’re going away

Batteries (recharg or toss) are for portability. You better know you got them somewhere.

If there’re already outdated, the box stores are making a mistake by having a boat load at the checkouts.

Those rechargeable devices have rechargeable batteries inside of them. Just open them up & it is easy to see.

I still like my old flip phone, just had to shovel in coal each day to keep it running….

Once you pay $69.95 (Or refrained, as I did) to have a non replaceable L-ion battery replaced, in a $99 low-end smartphone…

You won’t forget that “rechargeable” means the battery, not the device.

Those batteries are a windfall for phone stores and other battery sellers… I don’t think they’re going anywhere soon.

 

Yeah… they could build the battery function right into the phone, and make it truly non removable…

but AFAIK, it’ll be awhile before they make one that’ll last through unlimited charge cycles.

 

I’m guessing that some people willing to pay $1000 for the latest “Flagship phone” might also be the type to trade it in before its battery life is gone.

But a lot of others would be really unhappy in 2 years, if their expensive phones wouldn’t hold a charge any more, and a new one were the only answer.

The punchline seems oddly out of touch with reality. I still buy batteries in 12-packs and see no end to having to do that.

Having lived through two power outages that have lasted several days I am thankful to have had a battery operated radio, battery operated flashlights and battery operated clocks because with two of those things I at least could stay somewhat in touch with the world. I also have added some battery operated lamps to that collection. I see batteries for sale at most of the stores I shop at so I don’t think we are ever going to live in a society that doesn’t require them.

If electric cars take off, metaphorically, we will be more familiar with batteries.Electric car sales are accelerating, shocking the traditional auto industry.

Personally, I’m investing in genetic engineering to replace all our mitochondria with chloroplasts, so a good afternoon in the sun will leave us entirely charged up for a week.

Wall chargers and batteries are still widely used. Every cell phone has a battery. Electric cards and scooters have batteries. We are nowhere near having these things gone.

Not good, pushing coke on grade school kids.

Something may replace batteries in the future, but only our grandchildren have a chance to see that. Early phones needed batteries, and today’s phones still do. The main difference is size and replace-ability.

Batteries still have uses.

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Frazz14 hrs · Generations used to be identified by what music they liked, what they wore, how they did their hair, what they did in general. Now it seems like generations are identified by what they’re the first not to remember: Typewriters, rotary phones, common decency. And I think we’re close to the generation that is baffled by appliances and devices you plugged in while you used them, rather than between uses. I’m fine if they don’t remember that, but lately I’m thinking there’s a few other things about our culture that I’d much more rather they grow up with only abstract awareness of.*

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*Not that it matters, but I might be part of the generation to realize that, while grammar matters, the whole thing about not ending a sentence in a preposition was pedantic overkill all along.

They used to have B batteries of 45, 67.5, 90, and 300 volts.

Most people don’t know what batteries are. AAA, AA, C, and D cells are not batteries – they’re cells. Battery refers to a group of items, such as a group of cells. Cells are usually 1.5 volts each. A 9-volt battery has multiple cells inside, so it’s a battery.