I tried it on my car but it doesn't turn on anymore. Deceiving news
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Oh boy! Idiot TikTok kids is going to start microwaving devices.
didn't 4chan do that once?
Yeah they tricked people into believing that Apple added something that allowed users to charge their phones by microwaving them
It's "Delete system 32" and "magnetize to wipe your hard drive" all over again.
4chan did everything once
Not meth
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Who greenlit this article ?
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?
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.
People shouldn't compare things to gatekeeping unless they can build a cast iron gate
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.
The βpeerβ that reviewed it was another LLM.
Is this before or after they reach the spicy pillow stage?
The trick is to let them apply this heat themselves.
I think before, but thereβs a trick for spicy pillow just poke a vent hole, trust me I was in IT for 6 years ;p
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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 βtunable parameterβ 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
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Sure. But we need to see pics, or it didn't happen.
The abstract doesn't mention them re-gaining their old capacity. It only says they shrink. And something about voltage. So I have my doubts. I mean it's nice if my spicy pillow shrinks a bit. But what does that help if it continues to stay nearly dead? And an application in products would be hard to accomplish. At that temperature, all the plastic etc is going to melt. Maybe the solder as well.
Yes. If you aren't reading any battery tech article with a huge amount of skepticism you are doing it wrong. More than any other tech sector I can think of, battery research is just absolutely plagued with low quality research that consistently gets picked up by media outlets.
It might be less the quality of the research and more this:
(This comic is a bit outdated nowadays, but you get the idea).
Except the headlines say "scientists report discovery of miraculous new battery technology using A!".
Also i think people don't realize how long it takes to commercialize battery technology. I think they put them in the same mental category as computers and other electronics, where a company announces something and then its out that same year. The first lithium ion batteries were made in a lab in the 1970s. A person in 2000 could have said "I've been hearing about lithium ion batteries for decades now and they've never amounted to anything", and they would be right, but its not because its a bunk technology or the researchers were quacks.
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so putting batteries in the fridge wasn't useful after all, we should put them in the oven
so I can now put my spicy pillows in the oven and tell the insurance men the internet told me to?
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brb chucking my batteries in the oven
it's a cheap and easy thrill
Sounds like a horrible idea if not carefully controlled. Perhaps up to 80 degrees in an oil bath could redissolve some of the electrolytes. I guess it could work. Anything above 100 is asking for trouble.
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Sounds like "microwave to charge" for the modern era.
In the good ol' days when I ran out of battery and every charger had a different stupid little connector, I often put my phone on the window still or heater to get a little bit of juice to do what I needed to do.
I guess I am a scientist.
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Neat! So if I put my phone in the microwave it will reset the battery?
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