Hezbollah official calls it the group’s ‘biggest security breach’ in nearly a year of cross-border fire with Israel.
  • @Wooki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    -3•2 months ago

    Whats scarey here is the amount if energy stored in smart phones. Pagers hold a fraction of the energy and the application here to the smart phone is the same.

    • @stealth_cookies@lemmy.caEnglish
      14•2 months ago

      If you see the video there is no way a battery behaves like that, even if you drive a nail into them they more rocket flames than explode (I used to work in a battery lab).

      I should clarify, typical cells won’t explode, you could defeat safety features for pressure release in a can cell but at that effort they would have just added something more energetic.

      • @Wooki@lemmy.worldEnglish
        -3•2 months ago

        I doubt the lab experience.

        Lithium ion batteries do explode, off-gassing and pressure alone can do significant damage when contained. While typically closer to a thermite reaction, conditions determine damage which have been killing people from either heat or poisonous gas. I can point to state occuption work regulators that have a documented case of an explosion while plenty of deaths from battery fires can be found in the news.