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i used to work at an ecycle store that took a contract to dispose of a major corporations entire stock of obsolete massagers. that was 8 years ago and they're still disassembling them. because of lithium ion. and those weren't even glued in.
li-ion is the great tragic underpinning of the last 15 years of "incredible advances." every tiny item we get is made possible by packing in a little hunk of toxic explosives
fiction like Fallout attempts to satirize 1950s America by asking "what if we never stopped trusting nuclear energy and put little reactors in our cars and houses" - meanwhile, every Pip-Boy that has been made, by fans or as official merch, is powered by a little poisonous bomb.
while li-ion is not a high explosive, the fact remains that the Star Trek "I've put this phaser on overload" phenomenon is surprisingly realistic. Given a flat screwdriver and an old Moto G, you can manufacture a small incendiary grenade in less than five minutes.
