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Scary. Are we, as the consumer, pushing for safer batteries? Is there a shut-down mechanism available for lithium battery faults?
by adamredwoods 5y ago
Scary. Are we, as the consumer, pushing for safer batteries? Is there a shut-down mechanism available for lithium battery faults?
- PawBer 5y agoThe leakage of a battery isn't something you can stop. It's a big amount of stored energy released in a short while like a bomb. One Chinese company actually invented a flexible and solid battery that can even be cut without a risk of explosion but it doesn't scale to bigger capacities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJXRyWQgOY4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJXRyWQgOY4
- romwell 5y agoAnd there's not going to be a market for it even in devices which don't need large capacities, unless we force manufacturers like Bose to inform the public of the hazards of the products that they sell if they put dangerous batteries in them. Which is why some of us here are urging the OP to sue: to make sure the safety innovation has demand in the free market.
- romwell 5y ago>Scary. Are we, as the consumer, pushing for safer batteries? Nope, we aren't. We, as the consumer, say this on HN: >There is an inherent risk of loss of life whatever you do. We as a society just agreed that there's an acceptable level of it. Lithium-Ion batteries are on the higher level of it but their usefulness outweights it completely. To answer your question, there's a lot of things that have much higher chance of happening on an airplane e.g. a bird flying into the engine or a terrorist attack. Why push for innovation when you can just accept the inherent risk of death?