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Warning: Exploding Batteries
batlike writes "It seems I have been quite lucky up to this point as I habitually leave my laptop in the trunk of my car - which is just over the gas tank (duh!) . See this article in InfoWorld by Ephraim Schwartz for details. You may want to give it a once over if you currently use lithium-ion batteries."
It seems I have been quite lucky up to this point as I habitually leave my laptop in the trunk of my car - which is just over the gas tank (duh!) .
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You may want to give it a once over if you currently use lithium-ion batteries."
Considering that I usually keep my laptop in my trunk, i can rest knowing that I can pull it out and replace it with some safer items like a gasoline canister, some fireworks, my blowtorch and some booze (it is new years eve, after all
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Unfortunately, that will be just as harmful to my laptop and obviously not even close to as awesome as a raging fireball engulfing my car and causing chains of massive explosions.
I mean, who leaves a laptop in the trunk?
My laptop gets left countless places unattended....So what can you use as a safety? (Other than removing the battery)
Dude, you don't have to worry about the battery in your laptop exploding.
In fact, you don't have to worry about owning a laptop anymore. Your battery and laptop will be removed.
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If that's the case, aren't you far more likely to win the lottery several times than have your laptop battery explode?
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well, if that's the case, at least you'll have enough lottery winning to replace your laptop when it does explode
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But I don't watch a lot of TV news... maybe I've missed these stories:
The UK TV show Brainiac put the whole cellphone-at-a-gas-station theory to the test - they doused the innards of a caravan with petrol, and chucked a load of different mobiles in there all over the place. They then rang the mobiles to see what would happen.
Nothing happened.
So, they ran a wire to the caravan from a big bucket
Some loony dressed in some nylon clothes, stood in the bucket, 'rubbed himself', then touched the wire.
Boom.
Why don't we see "no dancing nylon loonies" signs at petrol stations?
Overheated NiCads are far more impressive. Gas and acid start shooting out of the vent hole under high pressure, turning them into a rocket if they are sitting loose.
Did ya know that people will scatter like crazy when that happens? They jump up on the banquet tables and everything. Quite a sight.
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Indeed they do, as one unfortunate man found out the hard way.
shhhhh, don't interrupt the troll's 'red hot lithium on genitalia' fantasy...
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Hey, most places you have to pay extra for that.
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the article is a blatant advertisement. nice one though.
When is Slashdot going to start allowing us to mod entire stories down ??
What are you retarded or did you just time travel here from the 19th century? It's a damn battery for heaven's sake not a fusion reactor control system. If you haven't figured out how to change a battery by now pay the 5 year old next door to do it for you.
I often read about how much "Bang-for-the-Buck" that you get from CPUs, Video cards, etc. I think that this might lead to a new system for rating laptops!
If "disco" means "I learn" in Latin, does "discothèque" mean "I learn technology"?
Hello? E=Mc^2?
This reminds me of helping some high school kids with a science project that involved a cooling system for an overclocked computer. They were going to use liquid cooled by a radiator intended for a 100 horsepower engine. They became concerned about the ability of the radiator to handle the heat. I laughed, but they remained insistent.
- 1 horsepower = 746 watts
- 2000 watts = maximum energy output of the electrical outlet into which the computer was plugged.
- Number of outlets (presumably on different circuits) required to power devices 100% efficient at turning electricity in heat; such that the radiator's cooling capacity would be overloaded = 35.
Naturally, I told the kids they needed a 600 volt A/C bus capable of handling 124 amps of current to power their celeron for the project.who are those slashdot people? they swept over like Mongol-Tartars.
>Nearly perfect bomb
What? Lithium is toxic, sure. But not toxic enough for your "nearly perfect bomb" scenario.
I'll agree that batteries might be slightly more dangerous than some of the stuff that's not allowed, but I really don't think it's much of a weapon.
"By the kidneys of Allah, some of you may experience renal failure from this toxic exposure! You infidels with low sodium levels may be susceptible to a chronic degeneration of your central nervous system!"
Somehow, that just doesn't rise to the level that I think is needed to instill "terror." And it's sure as hell not going to put you in control of the plane.
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Hmm,
I bet you could freak folk out with a 6 pack of beer, a stopwatch with countdown timer and a big display(use red led for backlight), gaffer (duck) tape and some spare shoelaces...
" I can explain officer. I taped the beers so I wouldn't be tempted to drink them until my stopwatch reached zero...I took my laces off to let my feet breathe and taped them to the cans so I didn't lose them"
On the other hand, it's kinda difficult to explain with a 9mm hole thru your head"
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Well, I figure if it's going to destroy the laptop, it might as well do it with style.
-[EPSILON]-