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Post by High Sierra Fan on Sept 10, 2016 18:49:28 GMT -8
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gabby
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Post by gabby on Sept 14, 2016 13:58:15 GMT -8
Noted.
For safety's sake, I got a new phone for my own daily use and gave my old Note 7 to my toddler, along with a fire extinguisher.
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Post by dirthurts on Sept 14, 2016 15:18:13 GMT -8
On a sort of related note, I just had a small battery in a Nitize glowstick explode and fire against my ear like a bullet. It quite hurt, a lot. I actually thought it pierced through at first. Turns out I'm O.K, but it goes to show how volatile batteries, of any size or quality, can be.
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Post by gabby on Sept 14, 2016 15:26:42 GMT -8
No info on when this will be available. For Samsung, that might have been a case of the old "we need it by yesterday" that is so prevalent in the software/electronics industry. "Researchers have developed a new material for a basic battery component that they say will enable almost indefinite power storage.
The new material -- a solid electrolyte -- could not only increase battery life, but also storage capacity and safety, as liquid electrolytes are the leading cause of battery fires.
Today's common lithium-ion batteries use a liquid electrolyte -- an organic solvent that has been responsible for overheating and fires in cars, commercial airliners and cell phones.
With a solid electrolyte, there's no safety problem.
"You could throw it against the wall, drive a nail through it — there's nothing there to burn," said Gerbrand Ceder, a professor of materials science and engineering at MIT and one of the main researchers.
Additionally, with a solid-state electrolyte, there's virtually no degradation, meaning such batteries could last through "hundreds of thousands of cycles," Ceder added.""Samsung, MIT say their solid-state batteries could last a lifetime"Hurry that up, will you? Oh, right - that's how we got the current problems, isn't it? |
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Post by dirthurts on Sept 14, 2016 17:44:41 GMT -8
I've been hearing about new and innovative battery technologies for close to a decade now, but none of them have come to market. Color me skeptical until they're available.
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