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From: Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: Kids got an E-scooter?
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:56:57 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 11:25:21 +1000, Bill Sloman wrote:

> On 23/06/2024 9:58 am, john larkin wrote:
>> On Sat, 22 Jun 2024 22:39:48 +0100, TTman <kraken.sankey@gmail.com>
>> wrote
>>> On 22/06/2024 18:22, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 22 Jun 2024 09:12:04 -0700, john larkin wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 22 Jun 2024 13:22:25 +0100, Cursitor Doom
>>>>> <cd@notformail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Get rid of it!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxwwzd99r2do
>>>>>
>>>>> I doubt that there is any serious quality control on cheap
>>>>> batteries.
>>>>>
>>>>> Kids are maiming and killing themselves on cheap unlicensed
>>>>> battery-powered scooters and such too.
>>>>>
>>>>> Imagine maybe a million unused battery-powered toys gathering dust
>>>>> in garages and closets waiting to explode.
>>>>
>>>> A frightening thought! Not so much batteries; more incendiary bombs.
> 
> If you can describe it as a thought. More a deluded fantasy/
>>>>> https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33963903/
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.amazon.com/Go-Bowen-Baja-1000W-Electric-Go-Kart/dp/
>>>> B00NOD6T4G
>>>>
>>> That's why we charged our RC lipos in a fireproof bag...
>> 
>> If it ignites, it would burn through a steel lunchbox.
> 
> Really? Do you have any evidence for that that claim?
> 
> This is just more of the usual alarmist nonsense about lithium ion
> batteries. This should be the kind of forum where we discuss the design
> of lithium ion battery chargers and lithium ion battery condition
> monitors - which could, in principle be designed to discharge the
> battery if the internal temperature of the battery rose high  enough to
> suggest a risk of runaway self-discharge. 
> 
> Cursitor Doom and John Larkin are much too devoted to their alarmist
> fantasies to want to think  about that (always assuming that  they could
> if they wanted to).
> 
> --
> Bill Sloman, Sydney

Perhaps you'd like to explain to the lady who's house burned to the ground 
and her similarly stricken neighbours that this is all just an "alarmist 
fantasy" Bill.