Ugh, another stupid article.
Once again, your phone is NOT going to explode. AT WORST, is could catch on fire.
We’ve had batteries in devices for a LONG TIME. When was the last time a hearing aid exploded? How many cell phones?
Is there a lot of energy in them? Shit yeah! But there is MORE per cubic centimeter in your car’s gas tank. And cars don’t just randomly explode.
And, yes, my last job was to squeeze every erg out of lithium batteries to run radios (Bluetooth).
/rant
Journalists are rarely doctors, lawyers or engineers.
What’s particularly odd is there are PLENTY of engineers, chemists and the like who will tell you why it is unlikely a battery will explode. It’s boring and unsexy and makes a shitty headline.
It’s more fun to ask an anonymous source who knows jack shit and get a GREAT but truth deficient headline. “BATTERIES CAN EXPLODE” is vaguely true in the same way that puppies CAN give you rabies. Or mice CAN carry the Plague. 🙄🙄🙄
@feloneouscat Oh good lord. Don’t give Israel any ideas. “2000 Iranians simultaneously get rabies from cute remote-controlled puppies”
Poor puppies!!!!
@feloneouscat You know, it occurs to me that it could benefit civic discourse if the way journalism as a profession works was radically changed.
There are plenty of highly intelligent, underemployed degreeholders in nearly any field you can think of... if instead of being a full 4-year degree program, journalism was a 6mo certificate that required any 4-year STEM (/"social sciences", maybe) degree as a prerequisite, I bet lots of those underemployed people'd end up making fantastic journalists.
The Earth CAN plunge into the sun but it is such an unlikely event, no one really worries about it.
Your car is more likely to explode than your cell phone.
At my previous job we had a BIN FULL of lithium batteries. They were just tossed in there. No hazmat protection, just in there with no rhyme or reason. No one worried about it. Why?
Because there was no REASON to worry. And engineers are some of the most anal personalities when it comes to being risk averse.