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What's Wrong With Lithium Ion Batteries?

Posted by samzenpus on from the too-hot-to-handle dept.

An anonymous Coward writes "Lithium ion batteries short-circuit. They overheat. They burst into flames. The reasons behind the recent spate of problems with a technology invented by Sony more than a decade ago are complex and varied, making for one big engineering headache."

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  1. Lithium Ions by arth1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, but they're great for bipolar disorders.
    And isn't that what a battery per definition has?

    1. Re:Lithium Ions by fyngyrz · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, many designs feature a salt and battery; personally, though, I always thought that just because you have bipolar to point at doesn't mean you get off without a charge. From where I sit, the whole bunch of them belong in cells.

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    2. Re:Lithium Ions by thewiz · · Score: 5, Funny

      I find your attitude towards people with bipolar disorder simply revolting!

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    3. Re:Lithium Ions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      "Yeah, but they're great for bipolar disorders.
      And isn't that what a battery per definition has?"

      OOOO....that was so bad....for your current behavior you should be discharged of all duties, put in a cell for assault and battery where we can keep an ion you

    4. Re:Lithium Ions by brusk · · Score: 3, Funny

      Watt are you talking about? No reason get short and heighten the tension here. Bipolar disorder can be terminal.

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    5. Re:Lithium Ions by Alpha830RulZ · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm looking for the -3 bad pun moderation option, but can't find it.

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    6. Re:Lithium Ions by It'sYerMam · · Score: 2, Funny

      Although it can 'ampere your life, it would give me a shock to find that it could also cause one to simply switch off. In parallel with other disorders, however, there are effects that cannot be rectified.

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    7. Re:Lithium Ions by Chr0nik · · Score: 2, Funny

      *So, Sony invented LiIon which druggies bust apart to make Ice, And Japan invented methamphetamines for their Kamikaze pilots, (well actually years before that, but it became useful in WW2). So, they basically single handedly invented tweakers. THANKS JAPAN!! Now, I understand why all the white folks in anime have such huge eyes, and are talking a thousand miles an hour at unnatural decible levels. *conspiracy theorists disregard this post.

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    8. Re:Lithium Ions by dcapel · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ohm my God! We have to stop with these loaded puns. I admit they have potential, but the current situation stretches it a bit far.

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  2. Stop focusing on the bad by n3tcat · · Score: 2, Funny

    and look at what's right. First thing that comes to mind, no other abbreviation sounds as cool as Li-on.

    Rawr.

  3. OMG! Invented by Sony! by feepness · · Score: 4, Funny

    It MUST be bad!

  4. Twas ever thus by Silver+Sloth · · Score: 2, Funny
    As the (very) old song goes

    It's illegal, it's immoral, or it makes you fat
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  5. Re:What a moronic post by ImTheDarkcyde · · Score: 5, Funny

    I saw Fight Club too

  6. Fuel for MacGyver by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wait! If we get rid of lithium batteries, how will MacGyver whip up an improvised fusion weapon from a laptop battery, heavy water, and high explosives?

  7. Re:What a moronic post by Broken+scope · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh yeah.... well I read the book!

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  8. Stone tools? by burnttoy · · Score: 4, Funny

    You could have someones eye out with one of those... here, try this handful of wet mud instead...

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    1. Re:Stone tools? by squoozer · · Score: 1, Funny

      Wet mud, wet mud! Do you know how dangerous that can be. Someone could drown in that you know.

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    2. Re:Stone tools? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      you can get E-coli bacteria from that wet mud, here have this air.

  9. Re:What a moronic post by Oktober+Sunset · · Score: 2, Funny

    oh yea, well I shaved my head and ran about vandalising stuff with my friends and calling ourselves space monkeys.

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  10. Re:What a moronic post by Broken+scope · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh yeah?!?! Well my name is Robert Paulson.

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  11. Re:What a moronic post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    His name was Robert Paulsen!

    His name was Robert Paulsen!

    His name was Robert Paulsen!




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  12. Re:Some stuf I wrote on this a while ago by Pope · · Score: 2, Funny

    And mathematics is various ludicrously complex and circumlocutory ways of stating that 1 equals 1.

    Yes, but that only works for standardised values of 1. As we know, larger values of 1 can totally mess things up.
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  13. Re:Actually, if you RTFA, it's not moronic by mypalmike · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, there's a very simple capitalistic free market solution to the very problem LiIon batteries pose. Legislate that LiIon batteries must use standardized battery format and be consumer changeable.

    This is either clever sarcasm, or a complete failure to understand the concept.

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