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- EV batteries complicate recovery of burning cargo ship with thousands of cars https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/18/22940790/cargo-ship-fire-vw-porsche-lamborghini-ev-battery 2 comments
- Tesla big battery fire under control after burning more than three days https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/02/tesla-big-battery-fire-in-victoria-burns-into-day-three 81 comments
- Why the lithium-ion batteries in Boeing's 787 Dreamliner are burning http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-01-18/why-the-batteries-in-boeings-787-are-burning#r=hp-ls 2 comments
- New Delhi—one of the world’s most polluted and densely populated cities—could significantly improve air quality for its 31 million residents by replacing fuel-burning ride-share vehicles with battery-powered electric cars. It would significantly lower greenhouse gas intensity of transportation. https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/electric-ride-share-vehicles-could-cut-delhi-pollution 8 comments science
- Experts weigh in on claim that electric cars have a mining problem: 'It always makes me laugh.' The mineral use for electric cars is actually far lower than gasoline and diesel's when accounting for oil needed for fuel-burning cars. And the majority of battery minerals are likely to be recycled. https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/ev-misinformation-mineral-mining-battery-waste/ 625 comments energy
- Nanotech Energy announces 18650 lithium-ion battery that resists burning down homes and cars https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nanotech-Energy-announces-18650-lithium-ion-battery-that-resists-burning-down-homes-and-cars.788506.0.html 40 comments technology
- Cargo ship carrying burning lithium-ion batteries kept offshore of Alaska port https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna131729 4 comments energy
- Indonesia plans to burn more fossil fuels to manufacture electric vehicles and batteries, currently building new coal-fired power plants with a capacity of 13 gigawatts https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/captive-to-coal-indonesia-to-burn-even-more-fossil-fuel-for-green-tech/ 11 comments worldnews
- Studies find that estimated emissions to fabricate an EV battery can be high as carbon emissions from a lifetime of fuel burned by an efficient conventional car. https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/22/the-tough-calculus-of-emissions-and-the-future-of-evs/ 24 comments science
- Electric mobility is hot, but its lithium-ion batteries are burning https://thenextweb.com/news/how-bad-is-the-problem-of-lithium-ion-battery-fires 25 comments environment
- Lithium-ion batteries are fueling the fire on a burning cargo ship full of Porsches https://qz.com/2130711/electric-vehicles-make-it-harder-to-quell-fire-on-felicity-ace-cargo-ship/ 315 comments technology
- Lithium-ion batteries are fueling the fire on a burning cargo ship full of Porsches https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/89f92b55-1de3-3d87-a4ec-9226cf1bc6c6/lithium-ion-batteries-are.html 5 comments worldnews
- Tesla big battery fire in Victoria burns into day three | Victoria https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/02/tesla-big-battery-fire-in-victoria-burns-into-day-three 50 comments worldnews
- Geelong’s Tesla Big Battery fire burns over weekend https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/geelong-s-big-tesla-battery-fire-burns-over-weekend-20210801-p58etf 5 comments technology
- Southern California Edison announces 770 Megawatts of Battery Storage. That’s a Lot. It will largely displace natural gas burning, by making it possible to store significant energy from when California has an excess of solar power during the day. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06052020/inside-clean-energy-california-battery-storage-wind-solar 25 comments climate
- Amazon faces lawsuit over Chinese battery that allegedly burned down a garage https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/27/21238919/amazon-lawsuit-battery-fire-choice 54 comments worldnews
- Volkswagen executives are suggesting that they can produce car batteries at US$100/kwh. That price is considered the point at which electric cars become more affordable than gas-burning models, and wasn't expected to be reached for several more years https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/08/business/volkswagen-trademark-electric-vehicles.html 31 comments climate
- Tesla battery spontaneously burns, no crash involved. https://electrek.co/2018/06/16/tesla-model-s-battery-fire-investigating/ 20 comments worldnews
- Samsung's probe into its Galaxy Note 7 fiasco has found that the overheating and burning of the phones was caused by faults with their batteries. http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38714461 9 comments worldnews
- No more burning batteries? Stanford scientists turn to AI to create safer lithium-ion batteries http://news.stanford.edu/2016/12/15/no-burning-batteries-stanford-scientists-turn-ai-create-safer-lithium-ion-batteries/ 4 comments science
- Fatal Tesla accident in NL. Driver apparently speeding. Fireman did not know how to handle situation with burning Battery. http://abcnews.go.com/technology/wirestory/driver-dies-tesla-slams-tree-central-dutch-town-41921104 6 comments worldnews
- Cool way to use map on Windows Phone without burning the battery. http://www.preapps.com/new-windows-phone-apps/lockmapper/277 8 comments windowsphone
- Best Buy recalls thousands of MacBook Pro batteries due to fire, burn hazards http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/best-buy-recalls-thousands-of-macbook-pro-batteries-due-to-fire-burn-hazards/ 15 comments technology
- Man suffers second-degree burns from Samsung smartphone battery fire http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/man-suffers-second-degree-burns-from-samsung-smartphone-battery-fire/2013/02/06/bf9ca272-704e-11e2-b3f3-b263d708ca37_story.html 35 comments technology
- Dead Phone Battery? Just Burn Something: light a fire so people could charge their dead cellphones. http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/06/biolite-stove/ 58 comments technology
- American Justice: PFC Manning Forced to Strip Naked, and threatened that it will happen again. I guess he is lucky they don't burn him with cigarets and connect a car battery to his genitals. What a civilized nation. http://www.armycourtmartialdefense.info/2011/03/confinement-conditions-worsen.html 3 comments politics
- Children die from eating "button batteries" - electric current burns holes in esophagus http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/31/for-very-young-peril-lurks-in-lithium-cell-batteries/?src=me&ref=homepage 28 comments reddit.com
- Battery Performance Is Hurting Hawaii’s Solar Push: "Power fluctuations from a first large plant installed in 2012 have already largely burned out the big batteries installed to keep solar from destabilizing the island’s grid." http://www.technologyreview.com/news/534266/hawaiis-solar-push-strains-the-grid/ 25 comments technology
- Michael Brewer, 15, was set on fire by other juveniles. Authorities released disturbing tapes of 911 calls reporting the attack. The juveniles are charged with aggravated battery. Brewer remains in intensive care with burns to over 85% of his body, facing "years of skin grafts." http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/280605 9 comments worldnews
- [Help] I bought my son a play planetarium for his birthday and within hours it's light bulb burned out, the batteries died (it doesn't plug in), and it's dim. I aim to fix that and I need your help. http://www.amazon.com/Smithsonian-Room-Planetarium-and-Projector/dp/B00548T0AY/ref=pd_sim_sbs_t_1 18 comments electronics