I tried it on my car but it doesn’t turn on anymore. Deceiving news
Sounds like a 4chan prank, but… 🪦
This turns everyone else on, though.
Who greenlit this article ?
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
You sure about that?
This is giving me racist dog-whistle vibes.
TIL ADHD is either a “race”, or the diagnosis is “racist.”
Fuck off, troll.
Its actually the “went to church, talented white folk there”, posted by “fren”, somehow they learned random old dude was “88” which has no bearing on the story and isn’t usually something that comes up in short conversations, and the “I was like <common behavior from easily influenced person> before I did these things”
It gives recruitment/fishing vibes to me. If 100 people read it and 99 see ADHD and move on, but 1 person asks them how they could also feel good about themselves, boom, one more Nazi recruit. That’s how dog whistles work. You toss an innocuous thing like “88” in your story, it let’s those in the know that you’re part of the team and you’re on the job.
Who is this “4chan”?
do we even know?
multiple times the big one was to wrap a spoon in duct tape and microwave it or boil bleach and drip alcohol in it to make crystals.
I thought it was ammonia instead of alcohol.
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
Obviously, physics aren’t done in Fahrenheit.
Had to laugh at your comment. Not that it matters in this case, your ear buds are not going to magically combust at just 150°C
They’ll not combust, I’d hazard a guess that air pods are made from ABS which has a glass transition temperature of 105C, so they will melt.
Dimethyl carbonate boils at 90° so the battery could pop
Good news everybody!
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?
it is this one: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08765-x
Yes but how can shareholders profit from this??
By not switching to Na based batteries and keeping a lid on Li mining.
Even BYD is betting on Na tho.
By making battery renewing devices.
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Thanks, I just threw up a little bit
Glad to be of assistance. May I offer you TOTO’s Extra Platinum Plus subscription tier that helps handle non-standard bodily waste, at only $7.99/mo for 24 months…
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 LLM4chan came up with the ideaRemember kids, updating to iOS 7 enables your phone to charge wirelessly in the microwave.
The “peer” that reviewed it was another LLM.
Well if it was a human it wouldn’t be a peer, would it
Connection reset by peer.
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?
Putting my LG G Flex which had a boot loop problem due to a soldering issue on the battery solved the problem temporarily!
Edit: oh also that was the freezer
I’ve known some old people to put their bootloops in the freezer because they think it won’t go stale as fast.
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 “tunable parameter” 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
I remember recovering dead 18650 cells from laptop batteries and “restoring” them with a 12V modded PC PSU. Quite a few of them actually started working again and had some capacity for a few tens of additional cycles. Those cells were never left unattended in a charger and they were always only used in a device you could chuck in a moment’s notice.
10/10 do not recommend.
How did that process work? Did you just connect the +/- ends of the cell to the +/- 12v wires of the PSU and let it feed from the high-amp outputs? Imagine there’s plenty of amps on the GPU and CPU power wires
Yup, just plugged it in there. The internal resistance of these cells was high enough that it limited the current somewhere between 3-8A. And this was done only briefly as these cells got quite…warm.
Well, there is some data/rumours out there, stemming from a Dutch Tesla forum, that suggests that some fast charging might be beneficial for battery longevity. This seems to corroborate that. I can’t remember the case for always fast charging, though.
Oh God I can already see all the questionable “Restorer Chargers” and the like from Temu that will be more likely to burn down the house…
Cue dumbasses tossing their iphones in the toaster oven in 3… 2…
I love the typo because it covers so many things at once
Queue as in they’re lining up to do it; cue, as in that’s their cue to be stupid; and que (spanish for what) as in what the fuck are they thinking?
I was gonna say there’s no typo but the comment has been edited. What was it originally? Que?
Yup, que
putting it over the stove.
¿Que dumbasses?
brb chucking my batteries in the oven
it’s a cheap and easy thrill
brb, putting e-bike battery in oven
One simple trick to make your ebike fly.
turn you into ghost rider.
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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.
So you’re saying I SHOULDN’T preheat my toaster oven to 425F???
UH-OH!!!
brb. Gotta put out some fires.
80 degrees what?
See, this is where the problems begin.
heat to 80K…oh wait
Neat! So if I put my phone in the microwave it will reset the battery?
Only if you want it soggy, air fryer works better
So is a toaster the new wireless charging hub?
Sounds like “microwave to charge” for the modern era.
