April 2021
Intermediate to advanced
404 pages
12h 18m
English

Mark Thompson, a resident of Matthews, North Carolina, had charged the lithium-polymer batteries for his drone 50 times by his estimation and he never had a problem.
“In fact,” he said, “I've never even had one feel warm to the touch.”
Still, he was in the habit of making sure he didn't leave them unattended while they were charging. But on one particular day in October of 2019, he forgot the lithium batteries were on the charger, and he left his home for 20 minutes. By the time he got back, his living room was engulfed in fire.
This is not an isolated incident. Lithium batteries are particularly volatile because they have a very high energy ...
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