alt Hacker Newshydrogen sulfide is not anywhere in the same category. When you consider failure you have to consider what is the most catastrophic possibility and if that is “this battery silently kills people” then you dont make it.
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wat10000 • yesterday at 10:23 PM
We pipe methane into millions of homes. I don't think "this can silently kill people in the worst case" is enough to block something.
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cyberax • yesterday at 10:17 PM
> hydrogen sulfide is not anywhere in the same category.
It has the same LD50 dose as HCN. It literally _is_ just as bad. It routinely kills people on oil rigs because in lethal concentrations it immediately shuts off your nose.
How often do you hear about people getting poisoned by it from lead-acid batteries?
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Batteries with Prussian blue cannot kill people silently.
Cyanide could be released only at high temperatures, e.g. if the battery is opened and burned, not during normal operation, even if overcharging is not prevented, as it should.
The sulfuric acid from the traditional lead-acid car batteries is more dangerous than this.