[enumerated]

They discovered if you soak the dead battery in gasoline and light it, you can get a little more life out of it.

[Alas Babylon!]

This is a good thing. We haven’t got that much lithium in the world, and shortages are hurting us.

Can they recycle the “dead” lithium in devices/old batteries no longer in use?

I think a ton of devices are discarded every year.

[Still Thinking]

I saw a guy once that claimed you could revive dead rechargeables (I think it was NiMH at that time rather than LiIon) by applying higher than rated voltage in the normal polarity as if charging. Supposedly you could reverse degradation in the battery by doing this briefly.

[butlerweave]

clumps of lithium = lithium cancer

[dynachrome]

Free beer tomorrow.

[Seruzawa]

Break the case and expose it to the atmosphere and you get a lot of energy too.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Kevmo]

Bkmk