Digg posting, “A solution may be at hand, although it could mean accepting, for now at least, lower battery capacity. Safer materials for lithium-ion batteries already exist and are available in products such as power tools. With some modification, they could be used in laptops, and also help facilitate the widespread use of lithium-ion batteries in hybrids…”
Good article explaining what is happening with the lithium-ion laptop batteries that are being recalled by Dell and Apple. There is hope to prevent the fires and explosions in the future by making small changes to lithium-ion laptop batteries as already being manufactured for power tools.