Re: [ST] Electric

[Nathan Maher <nate@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It really is amazing how much potential energy they contain.  I recently 
watched a demonstration of a laptop battery that was forced into a 
"runaway" state and they let the fire burn for a couple minutes and then 
checked the temp with a infrared thermometer, it pegged it at over 
1000deg F.

For the curious, have a look at this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJCZ4ayioCU

I'd love to hear from someone with more knowledge about things like this 
since youtube is not exactly a beacon of truth.  One can only hope that 
the developers of the motorcycle concept were using the safer (and less 
powerful) lithiated metal phosphate cores.  Wikipedia has some pretty 
interesting articles on this material for anyone wishing to become a 
battery nerd. :)

Nate
00SprintRS



JES_VFR wrote:
> The last electric car race that I attended with my sons was more than 
> a year ago.
> Some of the big speed guys were using Lithium and Li-po batteries.
> One of the lithium equipped cars hit something out on the course and 
> punctured the case. About two laps later it the car was just 
> enveloped in flames, the heat was intense enough to crater the 
> asphalt that we were racing on. Several of us threw buckets of sand 
> on it to smother it, but still took about two hours to cool off.
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