What's Wrong With Lithium Ion Batteries?

An anonymous Coward writes "Lithium ion batteries short-circuit. They overheat. They burst into flames. The reasons behind the recent spate of problems with a technology invented by Sony more than a decade ago are complex and varied, making for one big engineering headache."

Lithium Ions

[arth1]

Yeah, but they're great for bipolar disorders.
And isn't that what a battery per definition has?

Stop focusing on the bad

[n3tcat]

and look at what's right. First thing that comes to mind, no other abbreviation sounds as cool as Li-on.

Rawr.

OMG! Invented by Sony!

[feepness]

It MUST be bad!

Twas ever thus

[Silver Sloth]

As the (very) old song goes

It's illegal, it's immoral, or it makes you fat

Re:Lithium Ions

[fyngyrz]

Well, many designs feature a salt and battery; personally, though, I always thought that just because you have bipolar to point at doesn't mean you get off without a charge. From where I sit, the whole bunch of them belong in cells.

Re:What a moronic post

[ImTheDarkcyde]

I saw Fight Club too

Fuel for MacGyver

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait! If we get rid of lithium batteries, how will MacGyver whip up an improvised fusion weapon from a laptop battery, heavy water, and high explosives?

Re:What a moronic post

[Broken scope]

Oh yeah.... well I read the book!

Stone tools?

[burnttoy]

You could have someones eye out with one of those... here, try this handful of wet mud instead...

Re:What a moronic post

[Oktober Sunset]

oh yea, well I shaved my head and ran about vandalising stuff with my friends and calling ourselves space monkeys.

Re:What a moronic post

[Broken scope]

Oh yeah?!?! Well my name is Robert Paulson.

Re:What a moronic post

[Anonymous Coward]

His name was Robert Paulsen!

His name was Robert Paulsen!

His name was Robert Paulsen!




The first rule of project mayhem is you do not talk about project mayhem!

Re:Lithium Ions

[thewiz]

I find your attitude towards people with bipolar disorder simply revolting!

Re:Stone tools?

[squoozer]

Wet mud, wet mud! Do you know how dangerous that can be. Someone could drown in that you know.

Re:Lithium Ions

[Anonymous Coward]

"Yeah, but they're great for bipolar disorders.
And isn't that what a battery per definition has?"

OOOO....that was so bad....for your current behavior you should be discharged of all duties, put in a cell for assault and battery where we can keep an ion you

Re:Stone tools?

[Anonymous Coward]

you can get E-coli bacteria from that wet mud, here have this air.

Re:Some stuf I wrote on this a while ago

[Pope]

And mathematics is various ludicrously complex and circumlocutory ways of stating that 1 equals 1.

Yes, but that only works for standardised values of 1. As we know, larger values of 1 can totally mess things up.

Re:Lithium Ions

[brusk]

Watt are you talking about? No reason get short and heighten the tension here. Bipolar disorder can be terminal.

Re:Lithium Ions

[Alpha830RulZ]

I'm looking for the -3 bad pun moderation option, but can't find it.

Re:Actually, if you RTFA, it's not moronic

[mypalmike]

Actually, there's a very simple capitalistic free market solution to the very problem LiIon batteries pose. Legislate that LiIon batteries must use standardized battery format and be consumer changeable.

This is either clever sarcasm, or a complete failure to understand the concept.

Re:Lithium Ions

[It'sYerMam]

Although it can 'ampere your life, it would give me a shock to find that it could also cause one to simply switch off. In parallel with other disorders, however, there are effects that cannot be rectified.

Re:Lithium Ions

[Chr0nik]

*So, Sony invented LiIon which druggies bust apart to make Ice, And Japan invented methamphetamines for their Kamikaze pilots, (well actually years before that, but it became useful in WW2). So, they basically single handedly invented tweakers. THANKS JAPAN!! Now, I understand why all the white folks in anime have such huge eyes, and are talking a thousand miles an hour at unnatural decible levels. *conspiracy theorists disregard this post.

Re:Lithium Ions

[dcapel]

Ohm my God! We have to stop with these loaded puns. I admit they have potential, but the current situation stretches it a bit far.