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[-] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I guarantee they were fed at least in part by conspiracy theories off of Facebook, spread by pro-oil groups. The article mentions something about older, more toxic battery systems which these were confused for.

Because it's new and green, and green is for sissies!

[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 6 points 11 months ago

Lithium batteries are complicated, and the article is not very specific. I assume this site was going to use LiFePO~4~, which is no more unstable than NiMH, but the other chemistries, like lithium-cobalt, tend to catch on fire when mishandled. Guess which is on the news more, and therefore which a group of people who weren't interested in battery chemistries would have heard of? πŸ™„

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