solid-state

The Battery That Forgot to Leak

I found the leak at three in the morning, which is when you find most leaks if you are the kind of person who checks on things at three in the morning. Bay 7 at The Foundry. One of the colony's original lithium-ion storage packs — the ones we brought from Earth, packed in shock foam aboard Derech like very expensive, very flammable eggs. Twenty-seven years old if you count transit. The electrolyte had wept through a hairline fracture in the casing and pooled on the floor in a small, toxic puddl