• HerbGrower@slrpnk.net
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    1 day ago

    A short on the charger would be 2.2MW, not the entire battery detonating at once - which is usually more of a rapid ignition than an explosion, or at the very least you don’t get the entire stored energy going off at once. Also even depleted there is a lot of energy from the materials that make up the battery.

    2.2MW is a rate, not a quantity of energy. Petrol is about 34MJ/L. 2.2MW is comparable to burning 64mL/second of petrol.