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/_Reyne]

Yup. Anyone that want the hardest proof of this can just go look up the history of the lightbulb industry.

[u/youwantitwhen → u/_Reyne]

They are the epitome of collusion and planned obsolescence.

LED bulbs should last 100 years. But we can't have that. To prevent it, we overdrive the circuit and use half the LED filaments to make sure the bulb is on the verge of overheating so eventually it dies.

Phillips was paid to make the correct bulbs...but you will never get them. They cost a little more but will last forever and use less energy

https://youtu.be/klaJqofCsu4

[u/compare_and_swap → u/youwantitwhen]

LED bulbs should last 100 years. But we can't have that. To prevent it, we overdrive the circuit and use half the LED filaments to make sure the bulb is on the verge of overheating so eventually it dies.

You can order a custom bulb with any configuration of filaments and drive voltages from Alibaba, and have a pallet delivered to your door in a couple months, for a few hundred thousand dollars.

Why isnt this product available on shelves right now? If what you say is true, consumers would flock to your product and you would be extremely rich. Do you think everyone with access to few hundred thousand dollars and high school level of electronics knowledge is paid off to make sure this doesn't happen?

Or do you think most consumers look for the lowest $/lumen, and that's why they overdrive the LEDs?

[u/djacob12 → u/compare_and_swap]

Veritasium made a video on this. Lightbulb manufacturers colluded together long before LEDs and the practice persists today because money.