#Featured #Science #Flashjouleheating #Lithium #Lithiumbatteries #LithiumIonBatteries #Rareearthmaterials #Rareearths #Rareearth
Flash Joule Heating Recovers The Good Stuff
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/04/20/flash-joule-heating-recovers-the-good-stuff/

La Chine relève ses normes de production pour les dispositifs de stockage d'énergie, tandis que la Thaïlande limite leur nombre et interdit leur utilisation dans les avions afin de réduire les risques d'incendie et d'explosion.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@BylinesScotland/116215154104730764
“The fire did start in a vape shop which has only been open for a matter of months. It’s unclear whether this vape shop had planning consent and what its registration was. Clearly storing highly volatile flammable substances like lithium batteries in an historic building,175 years old, with all the fire risk that entails, raises serious questions about the oversight and management of all these premises in the city and of course across Scotland and the whole UK.“ #LithiumBatteries

"Another classic story of cheap may be too good to be true..."

Lithium ion batteries on a truck caught fire on the Hume Highway near Yass, forcing the road to close in both directions due to toxic smoke and health risks. A large exclusion zone was set up and nearby residents were advised to stay indoors. No injuries reported, but it is another reminder that transport and safety standards for battery storage and freight really matter.
#australia #nsw #humehighway #lithiumbatteries #firesafety #transport #energytransition #ev
Dendrites can cause short circuits in #lithiumbatteries. Researchers, including Fabian Apfelbeck, found such structures may also form inside polymer-based #electrolytes, not only at electrodes. This finding could improve solid-state #batteries: http://go.tum.de/518497
📷V.Hiendl
Not that I advocate for combustion engines - far from it.
Also #FuelCell solves the #RangeProblem or rather "#RangeFear" elegantly with existing (or at least trivially convertible) infrastructure, as it's way faster and cheaper to clean a fuel storage tank and pump and converting it to IPCA 99,9% Methanol, which whilst toxic upon ingestion is abundant in nature to the point that unlike #gasoline it's naturally being decomposed by bacteria and fungi.
Cuz that's what happens when someone decided to go completely bonkers in terms of high-end...