Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeroen Belleman Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: lithium explosion Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 19:03:07 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 17:03:15 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="44d8905cc89bb29199d833a569f45b57"; logging-data="3807013"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/xANJkHUvrI+ufJ5P7BUQt" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.13.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:IVD6241liBJgfSzaNSQACTfQg+A= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 1634 On 4/8/24 18:35, John Larkin wrote: > https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-68744317 > > It doesn't look like that one was charging. > > Lithium battery fires are a big deal in New York too. > > San Fancisco is swarming with illegal, unlicensed electric scooters, > surfboards, wheelie things, bikes, and motorcycles. > As the energy density of batteries goes up, failures will become more spectacular. It's not a good idea to store both oxidizer and fuel in close proximity in the same container. It's a recipe for an explosive. Jeroen Belleman