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Posted on 02/08/2017 12:29:04 PM PST by House Atreides
...The fire broke out at the Samsung Electronics Co Ltd affiliate's factory in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin earlier on Wednesday and has been extinguished, a Samsung spokesman said, adding that there were no casualties or significant impact to the plant's operations.
...The local fire department, however, said on its microblog that the fire was caused by batteries inside the facility.
The "material that caught fire was lithium batteries inside the production workshops and some half-finished products", the Wuqing branch of the Tianjin Fire Department said in a post on its verified Sina Weibo account. It added it had sent out 110 firefighters and 19 trucks to put out the fire.
SDI is set to start supplying batteries for Samsung's upcoming flagship smartphone Galaxy S8 in the first quarter of this year. The S8 replaces the Galaxy Note 7 mode, which suffered a global recall last year due to battery defects.
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LOL - Pretty funny tagline!
Anything and everything is possible, the question is how useful. The wind up battery radios, for example, would give a 450 maH battery a recharge. The typical cell phone battery has 2300 maH batteries (can be as large as 3200 maH.) So if it took ten minutes to charge the radio, it would take about an hour to charge a typical cell phone. That’s a little bit more than most people would be willing to invest into the process.
Alternately, you could use a dynamo mounted on a bike to run a converter to recharge multiple devices at once.
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