This recent fire highlights not only the immediate environmental effects but also the long-term implications for the role of lithium-ion technology in renewable energy.

While debugging a strange battery failure in a manufacturing process, [Josh] discovered a new (to us) LiPo battery failure ... tortured them all with ice and fire. (OK, boiling water.) ...

Experts have said that these types of fires will become more prevalent as the demand of electric vehicles and machinery continues to increase.

Over at Hackaday.io [AndyHull] popped open some cheap LiPo battery power packs to see if ... cells can be damaged and might possibly cause a fire. The packs [Andy] used also had a torch output ...