Does he ever once mention where he gets all these disposable vapes or what we can do about stopping them from entering the landfills?
Yeah he does, watch the video.
Building a 2.5kWh battery from disposable vapes to power my workshop [video]
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#22The thought that disposable vapes are still not forbidden in my country (EU) is making me sick.
From what I know the law is passed already. And they will become illegal end of 2026.
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#23The thought that disposable vapes are still not forbidden in my country (EU) is making me sick.
On the other hand, free parts!
Everything is reusable if you're determined enough.
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#24There are a million ways this can turn into a fireball, dont' try it, at least don't put it at home.
The creator of the video made this very clear already.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
A runaway NMC battery is notoriously difficult to extinguish, so the best thing to do is to not do it and investigate LFP prismatic cells instead. Many people building home storage batteries use a shed a few meters away from their home.
what's a NMC battery?
Nickel manganese cadmium maybe?
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#26The amount of e-waste in general is truly nauseating. My employer just cleaned 30 years of “junk” out of our in house IT “tech shop” and the number of working but obsolete computers that went out (many simply because they couldn’t support Windows 11) is sickening to me. The amount of carbon generated from the mining activities, steel production, etc. that went into producing “obsolete” computers has to absolutely dwarf any carbon “savings” you get by replacing them with more “efficient” machines. Especially when you consider that renewable power is taking over and many places aren’t burning coal to run the things anymore. A 12 year old i7 server runs my NVR, home automation setup, web server, and network router (not to mention a small handful of other services) without even breaking 25% CPU usage. We could replace so many data centers with old desktops.
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#27Just curious: if you wanted to do something like that, but prevent a... thermal event, how would you protect an experimental battery realistically? Build a brick enclosure? A fire safe?
Shameless plug: we're building a repairable e-bike battery where you can use your own cells at https://infinite-battery.com
We worked on a very sturdy casing, with some specific features to release pressure and limit the fire event propagating cell to cell, you can check it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0NXXfCA2CY
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#28After all networked smartphones and computers were placed under control of the regime, resistance hackers relied on microcontrollers harvested from ordinary household devices like smart lamps and vape pens to slowly rebuild the covert but resilient mesh internetwork that became known as FreeNet.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
A runaway NMC battery is notoriously difficult to extinguish, so the best thing to do is to not do it and investigate LFP prismatic cells instead. Many people building home storage batteries use a shed a few meters away from their home.
what's a NMC battery?
Nickel Manganese Cobalt - a type of Lithium battery chemistry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_nickel_manganese_cobal...
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#30Never ever consider doing something like this. There is a good reason why most home battery storage solutions are based on LFP batteries and not NMC as used in vapes. LFP is a much safer chemistry that can withstand higher temperatures and won’t bust into thermal runaway like NMC.
> Never ever consider doing something like this.
Unless you're a hacker, and you like hacking on stuff, then by all means, read through all the warnings and please do consider doing similar to what OP did, it's a lot of fun and you'll learn a lot!