How to Prevent Battery Fire?

Many of you may be afraid of the battery explode or the mods explosion while recently a new technology can help you prevent this, let’s have a look at it. Vaping has a battery problem. Actually, we have several battery problems — the biggest being that we can’t get anyone to understand that the problem isn’t unique to vaping. Come to Cacuq forum to see more ecigs news.

But set that aside for a moment, and let’s focus on the problem of lithium-ion batteries sometimes having thermal events that cause fires. A battery reaches a critical internal temperature and then heats rapidly until it bursts into flame, and sometimes even explodes. A new study proposes a new smart tech that could prevent fires caused by lithium-ion batteries in thermal runaway. This might help prevent risks for users of vaping devices — and cell phones, laptops, or any other product that uses these high-energy batteries.

A group of Stanford University scientists developed a barrier between the positive and negative sections of the battery that contains a flame retardant. When the battery reaches a 160 degrees Celsius, the barrier melts and releases the retardant (triphenyl phosphate — TPP) into the flammable chemical mix of the battery, which instantly douses the flames.

The technique has been tested in a coin-type cell. Before it could be used commercially, further testing on larger cells is needed. The study doesn’t indicate if it would be effective in the case of a dead short, as when someone carries an uncovered battery in a pocket full of change and contact is made between the positive and negative terminals. The study is in the journal Science Advances, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Until more is known and further development is put into larger cells using this tech, continue practicing battery safety. Users must take responsibility for keeping themselves safe.

Finally Someone Stands out to Fight back!

The cannabis industry is striking back against the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) after the federal agency issued clarifying language last month that codifies cannabidiol (CBD) as a Schedule 1 narcotic. Enforcing the change would affect businesses that sell any CBD-based product, including e-liquid. A cannabis trade group, the Hemp Industries Association, along with two hemp-related companies, filed suit in federal court in California last week, asking the court to overturn the DEA’s changes to the drug code, according to Leafly. RMH Holdings and Centuria Natural Foods are the other plaintiffs.

CBD is a nickname for cannabidiol, one of several active chemical compounds called cannabinoids that are found in plants of the genus Cannabis. Unlike its famous cousin tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), CBD is non-psychoactive. It doesn’t induce sensations of euphoria. CBD has shown great promise as a treatment for many disorders, including anxiety, epilepsy and cancer.

The lawsuit was filed by Denver attorney Robert Hoban of the Hoban Law Group, a firm that specializes in cannabis law. Hoban has been outspoken about the DEA rule change, calling it an unconstitutional attempt by an enforcement agency to legislate. “The DEA cannot create a statute,” Hoban told Leafly. “That can only be done by Congress.” The suit charges that the DEA rule is arbitrary, capricious, and unconstitutional. “They want to call all cannabinoids illegal. But they don’t have the authority to do that,” Hoban told Leafly.

The lawsuit says that the new rule “creates a new drug code without the DEA having followed the procedures or made the findings required” by the Controlled Substances Act. The DEA rule claims that any product extracted from a cannabis plant is classified as a marijuana extract. But the Controlled Substances Act only includes THC separately as a Schedule 1 substance. The DEA rule comes soon after the United Kingdom reclassified CBD as a medicine, largely eliminating the consumer CBD market there.

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