Have you ever calculated how much energy a gas powered car or truck stores?
Yet we even let everyone pour that stuff into their tanks, without any supervision whatsoever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Yet we even let everyone pour that stuff into their tanks, without any supervision whatsoever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Not that I'm recommending it, but you could fill a coffee can with gasoline and light it on fire and with only minimum care, be completely safe.
Do the same with an equivalent-energy amount of lithium batteries and you better have a good pair of running shoes.
Go watch some youtube videos of exploding laptops.
The latest big MacBook battery has 100 watt hours of energy fully charged.
A gallon of gasoline has 33,000 watt hours of energy.
So that macbook's battery has 2.3 teaspoons, about 1 centimeter cubed, or 11 mL equivalent energy of gasoline. I have spilled that much gas on my shoe and not given it a second thought. Another way to put it is a laptop battery has about as much energy in it as a shot of vodka.
I'll happily store many bottles of liquor in the cupboard without a thought of the fire risk.
An equivalent battery carelessly stored is scary.
I love cooking with gas but to be completely honest I'll be happy to see the back of it.
On the other hand Gas ovens are crazy nonsense. The electric oven was already the obviously superior choice last century and they've only continued to get better.
The failure mode of a modern lithium battery is much more benign that the quarter-stick of TNT you're making it out to be.
You're just fear-mongering, and that's an absurd level of hyperbole.