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[–] TommySoda 103 points 1 month ago (12 children)

As a regular enjoyer of vaping (used to be a pack a day smoker), this is great news. Fuck disposable vapes because theirs nothing "disposable" about them. Plastic, electronics, metals, and lithium batteries that people just fucking throw out their car windows like cigarette butts. That shit is gonna last for thousands of years. And y'all have seen those videos of people's phones and vapes exploding in their pockets when there's a puncture in the battery, right? Yeah let's just throw that shit into landfills and out of car windows and find out what happens.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 38 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Makes me wonder how many electric car batteries worth of lithium and rare earth metals is just lying in gutters around the world.

[–] Venat0r 15 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Also the cells are typically in pretty good condition, as the vape tends to run out of the flavoured/nicotine liquid stuff before the battery gets down to a state of charge that is bad for long term storage.

[–] gmtom 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's not true at all? It's literally always the battery that runs out first. Else you would burn the coils in them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're rechargeable lithium batteries, they should last years. Not a week.

[–] gmtom 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

True, if you could recharge them, but they don't include ports to do so.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Which is why it's a waste of good lithium cells, as the guy you replied to was saying

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So why use rechargeable batteries at all?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Suicide drones use them too. Best energy density at the required power levels. (Zinc-air batteries are slightly better but you can't extract the energy in minutes.)

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