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> which is extremely toxic Lithium is toxic too and never gets recycled. > and extremely heavy Yea, it's like you move your UPS every day?
by justsomehnguy 4y ago
> which is extremely toxic
Lithium is toxic too and never gets recycled.
> and extremely heavy
Yea, it's like you move your UPS every day?
- nwah1 4y agoToxicity is a relative concept. Lead's toxicity is measured in parts per billion. Lithium is many orders of magnitude safer.
- tyrfing 4y agoIt's not the lithium part of lithium batteries you worry about, it's everything else. Lithium hexafluorophosphate turning into hydrogen fluoride gas, for example.
- justsomehnguy 4y agoI still have my lead acid batter in my UPS from... 2016? I'm not even sure when I got it. With lithium I need to know when I got it, did it run in non-ideal lithium conditions (-20^C? No go. +34^C? No go), and the most importantly - in three years I need to replace a Li battery, but with a lead battery and a non-online UPS I can have from 3 to 10 years of lifetime from it.