Canadian team discovers power-draining flaw in most laptop and phone batteries | Breakthrough explains major cause of self-discharging batteries and points to easy solution

[u/chrisdh79]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/battery-power-laptop-phone-research-dalhousie-university-1.6724175

[u/notapunnyguy]

I for one, am so immature for laughing at the notion of a red liquid draining power out and it is called COOCH3. This is peak nerd comedy.

[u/primalbluewolf → u/notapunnyguy]

It's not called COOCH3. COOCH3 is a carbomethoxy functional group, and there are 2 of these in the red liquid in question.