Gadgets

Your Batteries Could Take Down A Plane

Ready for mass hysteria? Apparently the FAA has acknowledged that aeroplane cargo holds can get hot enough to cause lithium batteries to ignite. And there’s more! There was a large quantity of such batteries on a plane that crashed recently:


March 12, 2009
Science

Lithium Iron Phosphate Batteries Promise Charging in Seconds, World Braces For Disappointment

Battery “breakthroughs” are a dime a dozen, so excuse me for sounding a bit jaded here. But a battery that can charge in seconds? Without fatigue? If this wasn’t published in Nature, I’d probably laugh.