Lithium Battery Fire Risks
This cluster discusses the fire hazards and safety risks of lithium-ion batteries, including comparisons to safer alternatives like LFP, thermal runaway in crashes or failures, and concerns in EVs, storage, and consumer devices.
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How do these things compare to “regular” lithium batteries on fire hazard?
do these batteries burn in a mostly uncontrollable way like lithium ion?
Look at some yt videos of li-ion or li-po fires, this will change your mind
The battery may be a fire hazard.
Just wait until a lithium battry storage facility catches on fire.
It is the opposite, LiIon/LiPo batteries are inherently dangerous and can cause chemical fire for various reasons (overcharging, undercharging, puncture, high temperature, etc.). These things are monitored/controlled in any modern application in normal usage, but in a crash you have to remember that you are literally few inches away from a massive stored up potential chemical energy. The fire burns very hot, the smoke is toxic and assuming somebody gets to you in time, it can only be e
Is the failure mode that I die in a lithium fire?
It's not that it's not even an option. Puncture that battery and the raging inferno makes the situation 1000x worse.
could you do as much damage with batteries though? it seems like they would start fires instead of exploding
For the uninitiated, what are the risks with these batteries? Are they likely to explode?