HP & Boston-Power Eco & Cheap Laptop Batteries

HP & Boston-Power have developed new laptop batteries that do not make use of poisonous metals such as cadmium and mercury. According to the developers, they say that the chemical inside these battery cells chosen do not require these polluting metals found in conventional batteries, which often have unprecise chemical reactions that creates unwanted by products. On top of that, they say that these laptop batteries have more charging cycles and do not need to be replaced as frequently as coventional laptop batteries. These sonata batteries will be used in HP laptops starting early next year.

I think that these batteries are a good idea, as they are really cheap at around USD$40 and deal away with the need of changing pesky, degraded batteries which cost a bomb to change and not to mention the inconveniences that come along with it. On top of that, when these battery cells go mainstream, they will cut down the e-waste in the future as laptop batteries are phased out from the long list of environmental pollutants.

Source: New Boston-Power Notebook Batteries Promise Long, Green Life