[LINK] NBN and Batteries

[Fernando Cassia]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Richard Chirgwin
<rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> Personally, I think the Greens would do better to tackle battery
> disposal / recycling across-the-board, rather than grabbing  passing
> high-profile issue (the NBN) and tacking "battery disposal" on the end.
> "Pin the tail on the donkey" is a second-rate political strategy; cheap
> opportunism, IMO.

Agree. A network like the NBN that needs customer premises equipment
(CPEs) just VISIBILIZES batteries. In a traditional (POTS) phone
network, the batteries are also there, just centralized in the phone
exchange building, so you don´t "see" them at your home....

FC