| ext">We cart our car batteries off for recycling, | | | | safety precautions to prevent leeching of lead into |
| thinking we protect the environment. Not | | | | the environment. |
| so— not on a world-wide basis. To avoid | | | | What else? Charles Van Breemen invented |
| stringent regulations in the U.S., used car batteries | | | | Battery Life Saver with the idea that it could help |
| are processed abroad— some 70 million or | | | | protect the environment. The use of this |
| so a year. Plants in such countries as Mexico, | | | | electronic device triples the life of a battery by |
| Venezuela, South Korea, China, South Africa, India | | | | preventing the formation of lead-sulfate on the |
| and Brazil do not follow our environmental | | | | battery plates— the main reason batteries |
| protection policies. | | | | go bad. Van Breemen passed away in April of |
| Rivers and air are polluted. Workers, mothers | | | | 2007, but his legacy is carried on by his wife, |
| children suffer from lead blood poisoning; | | | | Elyse, who champions his cause. With wide scale |
| respiratory ailments, skin sores that bleed, kidney | | | | use of Battery Life Saver fewer batteries would |
| disease, impaired fertility. not to mention, at high | | | | have to be discarded; cutting the number of |
| levels, coma, convulsions and death. Lead is | | | | batteries that would need to be recycled. |
| especially detrimental to children; it causes kidney | | | | In third world countries, environmental and |
| disease, gouty arthritis and permanent lowering of | | | | workplace rules are lax and wages are low. While |
| intelligence, creating reading and psychological | | | | it is not profitable to operate lead recycling |
| disorders. Even at low levels of exposure, lead | | | | facilities in industrial countries due to environmental |
| causes anemia by impairing the formation of | | | | and health regulatory costs, it could be profitable |
| oxygen-carrying molecules. Low levels also cause | | | | to expand the use of Battery Life Saver so it is |
| high blood pressure, leading to early death, | | | | used on all lead-acid batteries or develop batteries |
| especially for men ages 35 to 50; | | | | with Battery Life Saver mechanism incorporated |
| Australia, Japan and the U.K. similarly export | | | | into the structure. Battery Life Saver is currently |
| battery waste and other lead scrap | | | | very popular in golf carts and NEV’s. |
| Grim. | | | | Future developments will make it possible to use |
| Oil and water don’t mix; neither does lead | | | | in mainstream electric cars. |
| and life. Historians link the decline of the Roman | | | | "I have my hands full," says Elyse Van Breemen, |
| Empire to a decline in intelligence caused by the | | | | the President of Battery Power Solutions and |
| use of lead in drinking vessels and other | | | | Innovations, "seeing that my husband’s |
| containers. | | | | mission is accomplished. I see Battery Life Saver |
| What do we do? What’s good for the | | | | as "the light bulb" to the battery industry. In these |
| goose is good for the gander and we should insist | | | | difficult economic times, we need simple, cost |
| that any recycling plant used by an American | | | | effective solutions to environmental and |
| company, albeit in a third world country, insures | | | | transportation problems, and we have one. |