I tried it on my car but it doesn't turn on anymore. Deceiving news
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Sounds like a 4chan prank, but... 🪦
This turns everyone else on, though.
Oh boy! Idiot TikTok kids is going to start microwaving devices.
didn't 4chan do that once?
Who is this "4chan"?
Yeah they tricked people into believing that Apple added something that allowed users to charge their phones by microwaving them
multiple times the big one was to wrap a spoon in duct tape and microwave it or boil bleach and drip alcohol in it to make crystals.
4chan did everything once
Not meth
Warning: heating earbuds batteries to over 300F also causes fires
Reading this tells me the author has absolutely 0 idea of how physics work and is nothing but a blogger of consumer grade equipment. People like that should refrain from trying to understand how science or scientists work.
I think you mean they shouldn't write authoritatively about things they don't understand, because what you said is really gate keepy. There's nothing wrong with learning.
Obviously, physics aren't done in Fahrenheit.
Had to laugh at your comment. Not that it matters in this case, your ear buds are not going to magically combust at just 150°C
They'll not combust, I'd hazard a guess that air pods are made from ABS which has a glass transition temperature of 105C, so they will melt.
Dimethyl carbonate boils at 90° so the battery could pop
so putting batteries in the fridge wasn't useful after all, we should put them in the oven
Putting my LG G Flex which had a boot loop problem due to a soldering issue on the battery solved the problem temporarily!
Edit: oh also that was the freezer
I've known some old people to put their bootloops in the freezer because they think it won't go stale as fast.
so I can now put my spicy pillows in the oven and tell the insurance men the internet told me to?
This title is pretty bad, the paper focus is in designing new battery technologies not magically restoring capacity on the batteries we have today.
Is the paper in the article? I couldn't find it.
Would you be so kind as to link us?
Yes but how can shareholders profit from this??
By not switching to Na based batteries and keeping a lid on Li mining.
Even BYD is betting on Na tho.
By making battery renewing devices.
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Thanks, I just threw up a little bit
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Important note near the end of the article - they aren't saying we should cook batteries really -
"The team's hypothesis is that the structural disorder developing inside LIBs may become a “tunable parameter” that, if tweaked using chargers at precise voltages to alter said battery composition, could be used to rejuvenate the batteries in our tech without fires."
This is a good old idea that goes back to the days of desulfating lead batteries with powerful shocks of high-amperage current. Might just need a special Healing Charger that applies the right voltage/current to dissolve the bad crystals in lithium-ion systems
Well, there is some data/rumours out there, stemming from a Dutch Tesla forum, that suggests that some fast charging might be beneficial for battery longevity. This seems to corroborate that. I can't remember the case for always fast charging, though.
I remember recovering dead 18650 cells from laptop batteries and "restoring" them with a 12V modded PC PSU. Quite a few of them actually started working again and had some capacity for a few tens of additional cycles. Those cells were never left unattended in a charger and they were always only used in a device you could chuck in a moment's notice.
10/10 do not recommend.
Oh God I can already see all the questionable "Restorer Chargers" and the like from Temu that will be more likely to burn down the house...
With electric cars you might not even need a special charger so much as a special charging cycle. Its already the norm for cars to tell the charger what voltage and current they want, and its already the norm for cars to carefully control their battery's temperature during charging.
That's not to say you'd necessarily be able to do this with just a software update, but its not too far off from the current paradigm.
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Neat! So if I put my phone in the microwave it will reset the battery?
Only if you want it soggy, air fryer works better
So is a toaster the new wireless charging hub?
this feels like bait
In reality, this doesn’t affect the existing batteries we have, it’s just for future battery technology.
Is this before or after they reach the spicy pillow stage?
I think before, but there’s a trick for spicy pillow just poke a vent hole, trust me I was in IT for 6 years ;p
i was just thinking i could use an excuse for some skin grafts
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I hope this article is well peer-reviewed. Otherwise this reads as if some LLM came up with the idea
Otherwise this reads as if ~~some LLM~~ 4chan came up with the idea
Remember kids, updating to iOS 7 enables your phone to charge wirelessly in the microwave.
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brb chucking my batteries in the oven
it's a cheap and easy thrill
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