Apparently, scientists have discovered shocking new reasons why:
There are multiple ways a lithium battery can fail, but a longstanding problem associated with high currents is dendrite penetration. Dendrites are tree-like structures that can form on the lithium plating in a battery.
They can quickly penetrate a battery’s ceramic separator, a porous plastic film between the anode and cathode of the battery. Once a dendrite makes its way across the separator, the battery shorts out.
The growth of dendrites depends on the current density, but dendrites spring up in batteries at current densities three orders of magnitude higher than expected or designed.
Dendrites rule!
So it’s not the Covid?
Are these dendrites a Russian or Chinese conspiracy?
So, it’s no longer shocking…
Dendrites? Holy crap. All they need after that are axons. Then they will have a complete nervous system and the singularity is sure to follow!
I see a Hollywood movie in this . . .
I see several….Night of the Living Dendrites, Attack of the Dendrites, I was a Teenage Dendrite, Gone with the Dendrites, 3:10 to Dendrite, The Girl with the Dragon Dendrite, The Pink Dendrite, Return of the Pink Dendrite, Willy Wonka and the Dendrite Factory, Dendrite Wars. Yes the possibilities are endless.
Dendrite Stuff
Damn dirty dendrites!
Ah yes…from the original, Planet of the Dendrites, a classic.