Yeah, maybe. I’ve seen big clive play with a joule thief. He certainly thought it was sort of nifty. Might not be a bad idea for certain electronics. My experie

Yeah, maybe. I’ve seen big clive play with a joule thief. He certainly thought it was sort of nifty. Might not be a bad idea for certain electronics. My experience with nimh, is that while they have a lower starting voltage, their discharge curve is much better. I found some devices would last longer on a single charge than with some of the alkaline batteries I was using. I recently bought some roughly AA size lifepo4 batteries. They’re nice in that if you have an even number of batteries you can use one and a dummy battery to replace 2 alkaline to get 2v7-3v6. Not sure how I feel about increasing amounts of lithium batteries though lying around my house. I probably wouldn’t put them in a random remote since the cost of a short is super high.